Kim Eun-jung (curler)

Kim Eun-jung
birthday	29th November 1990 (age 29)
place of birth	Uiseong
Career
nation	South Korea
society	Gyeongsangbukdo SC
Playing position	Skip
Playing hand	right
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × PAM championship 2 × 1 × 1 × JPAM medals 0 × 3 × 0 × WAS medals 0 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver 2018 Pyeongchang Pacific Asian Curling Championships bronze 2012 Naseby silver 2014 Kariuzawa gold 2016 Uiseong gold 2017 Erina Junior Pacific Curling Championship silver 2010 Nayoro silver 2011 Naseby silver 2012 Jeonju City  Winter Asian Games silver 2017 Sapporo
last change: February 25, 2018

Korean spelling
Hangeul	김은정
Revised Romanization	Gim Eunjeong
McCune- Reischauer	Kim Ŭnjŏng
See also : Korean name

Kim Eun-jung (born November 29, 1990 in Uiseong ) is a South Korean curler . She plays as Skip for the South Korean national team.

Career

Kim, also called "Annie" by her teammates, began her international career at the 2010 Junior Pacific Curling Championship , where she reached the finals as Skip with the Korean team, but lost to Liu Jinli's Chinese team . Also in the following two years she moved into the final of the now Junior Pacific Asia Championship called competition at this championship, but lost both times against the Japanese team of Sayaka Yoshimura .

In 2012 she appeared for the first time at the Pacific Asia Cup . After losing in the semifinals to Satsuki Fujisawa's Japanese team , they defeated Australia in the third place game and won the bronze medal. In 2014 she won the silver medal; the final was lost 6-7 against China (Skip: Liu Sijia ). In 2016 she won the gold medal by beating China (Skip: Wang Bingyu ). At the 2017 championship she was able to achieve this success with her team (third: Kim Kyeong-ae , second: Kim Seon-yeong , lead: Kim Yeong-mi , substitute: Kim Cho-hi ) by beating Japan (skip: Satsuki Fujisawa ) to repeat. By winning the Pacific Asia Cup in 2016, Kim qualified for the 2017 World Cup and finished sixth there.

Kim and her team represented South Korea at the 2018 Winter Olympics in their own country. After eight wins and one defeat, she and her team finished the round robin in first place and met Japan with Skip Satsuki Fujisawa in the semifinals . After an 8: 7 win they moved into the final against Sweden with Skip Anna Hasselborg . The game was lost 3-8 and the Koreans won the silver medal. At the 2018 World Cup , she and her team made it to the playoffs, but lost the qualifying game against the USA (Skip: Jamie Sinclair ) and finished fifth in the final standings.

She has been playing on the World Curling Tour for several years . In 2015 she won three tournaments: Uiseong International Curling Tour, AMJ Campbell Shorty Jenkins Classic and Canad Inns Women's Classic.

Web links

• Kim Eun-jung (curler) on Worldcurling.org (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Team EunJung Kim, Grand Slam of Curling ( Memento of the original from March 22, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved November 15, 2017 
2. ^ Pacific Junior Curling Championships 2010, World Curling Federation. Retrieved November 15, 2017 . 
3. ^ Pacific-Asia Junior Curling Championships 2012, World Curling Federation. Retrieved November 15, 2017 . 
4. ^ Pacific Asia 2012 Curling Championships, World Curling Federation . Retrieved November 15, 2017
5. ^ Pacific Asia 2014 Curling Championships, World Curling Federation . Retrieved November 15, 2017
6. ^ Pacific Asia 2016 Curling Championships, World Curling Federation . Retrieved November 15, 2017
7. ^ Pacific Asia 2017 Curling Championships, World Curling Federation . Retrieved November 15, 2017
8. ↑ CPT World Women's Curling Championship 2017, World Curling Federation . Retrieved November 15, 2017
9. ↑ http://www.worldcurling.org/owg2018/team-korea-profile
10. ↑ EunJung Kim, worldcurl.com . Retrieved November 15, 2017

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, Eun-jung is the first name.