Kim Geon-hee

Kim Geon-hee
nation	South Korea
birthday	9th August 2000 (age 20)
Career
status	active
Medal table
World Cup medals 1 × 0 × 0 × JWM medals 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Short track world championships gold 2019 Sofia Season  Short track junior world championships gold 2020 Bormio 1500 m
Placements in the Short Track World Cup
Debut in the World Cup 5th November 2016  World Cup victories 2 (including 1 individual victory)  1500 m world cup 10. ( 2018/19 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  1500 meters 1 0 0  Relay / team 1 1 1
last change: February 10, 2020

Korean spelling
Hangeul	김건희
Hanja	金根熙
See also : Korean name

Kim Geon-hee ( 金根熙 ; * August 9, 2000 ) is a South Korean short tracker .

Career

Kim started the World Cup for the first time in Calgary in November 2016 , finishing 32nd and 19th over 500 m. With the relay she won her first World Cup there. Her best individual results in the World Cup in the 2016/17 season were sixth place over 1500 m and fifth place over 1000 m in Gangneung . At the Winter Asian Games 2017 in Sapporo , she won the gold medal with the relay. In the 2018/19 season she won her first individual World Cup victory in Almaty over 1500 m and reached tenth place in the World Cup over 1500 m at the end of the season. In addition, she was second in Almaty and third in Dresden with the relay. At the 2019 World Championships in Sofia , she won the gold medal with the relay.

World Cup victories

World Cup victories in individual

No.	date	place	discipline
1.	December 8, 2018	Almaty	1500 m

World Cup victories in the team

No.	date	place
1.	November 6, 2016	Calgary 1st

¹With Choi Min-jeong , Shim Suk-hee and Noh Do-hee .

Personal bests

• 500 m 43.725 sec. (installed on November 13, 2016 in Salt Lake City)
• 1000 m 1: 30.874 min. (set up on February 2, 2019 in Dresden)
• 1500 m 2: 25.686 min. (installed on December 17, 2016 in Gangneung)

Web links

• Kim Geon-hee at ISU
• Kim Geon-hee on Shorttrackonline.info
• Kim Geon-hee on the-sports.org