Kim Dong-sung (short tracker)

Kim Dong-sung
nation	South Korea
birthday	February 9, 1980
place of birth	Seoul ,  South Korea
size	172 cm
Weight	67 kg
Career
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 12 × 7 × 4 ×
winter Olympics gold 1998 Nagano 1000 m silver 1998 Nagano 5000 m relay  Short track world championships silver 1996 Lake Placid team bronze 1996 The Hague 5000 m relay gold 1997 Nagano 1000 m gold 1997 Nagano 3000 m gold 1997 Nagano 5000 m relay gold 1997 Nagano All-around silver 1997 Nagano 500 m bronze 1997 Seoul team gold 1998 Vienna 3000 m silver 1998 Vienna 5000 m relay bronze 1998 Vienna 1500 m bronze 1998 Vienna All-around silver 1998 Bormio team silver 1999 Sofia 1000 m silver 1999 Sofia 5000 m relay silver 2000 The Hague team gold 2002 Montreal 500 m gold 2002 Montreal 1000 m gold 2002 Montreal 1500 m gold 2002 Montreal 3000 m gold 2002 Montreal 5000 m relay gold 2002 Montreal All-around bronze 2002 Milwaukee team

Kim Dong-sung ( kor. 김동성 ; born February 9, 1980 in Seoul ) is a former short tracker and short track trainer from South Korea .

Life

Kim Dong-sung was born the third child of Kim Tae-young and his wife Yoo Young-hee. He started speed skating at the age of seven , but switched to the short track two years later .

Career as a short tracker

Kim won five gold medals at the 1997 World Junior Short Track Championships in Marquette . At the World Championships in Nagano he won four gold medals and one silver medal in the same year. He also won the 1997 team world championships in Seoul with the South Korean team . Many more medals at the world championships followed. At the 2002 World Cup in Montreal , he won all men's gold medals, including the relay. Only at the team world championships in Milwaukee in 2002 did the South Korean team only win bronze.

At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano , he was Olympic champion over the distance over 1000 m and won the silver medal with the relay.

He also won three gold, three silver and two bronze medals at the Asian Winter Games .

He graduated from Korea University in 2002 . In 2005 he announced his resignation due to chronic knee problems.

Coaching career

After his active career, he became a short track trainer in Virginia and Maryland . In 2011 he was suspended for allegedly using corporal punishment .

In 2011 he returned to South Korea and worked as a short track commentator for the broadcaster KBS .

Web links

• Kim Dong-sung in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Profile on databaseolympics.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Who is Kim Dong-sung? In: The Hankyoreh (February 18, 1998)
2. ↑ Athlete profile: Kim Dong-Sung ( Memento from May 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) on sportsillustrated.cnn.com
3. ↑ US Speedskating suspends Kim Dong-Sung from coaching in wake of corporal punishment accusations Washington Post (March 3, 2011)

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Kim is the family name here, Dong-sung is the first name.