Kim Hyun-ki

Kim Hyun-ki
Kim Hyun-ki (2017)
nation	South Korea
birthday	9th February 1983 (age 37)
place of birth	Gangneung ,  South Korea
job	Trainer
Career
society	High 1
Trainer	Kim Heung-Soo
Pers. Best	190.5 m ( Planica 2008)
status	resigned
End of career	2018
Medal table
Universiade medals 3 × 1 × 0 × Asian Games Medals 1 × 0 × 2 × National championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Winter Universiade gold 2003 Tarvisio team gold 2009 Harbin Normal hill gold 2009 Harbin team silver 2009 Harbin Large hill  Winter Asian Games gold 2003 Aomori Normal hill team bronze 2011 Almaty Large hill team bronze 2017 Sapporo Large hill team South Korean Championships gold 2013 Pyeongchang Large hill
Ski jumping world cup / A class jumping
Debut in the World Cup	November 28, 1999
Overall World Cup	65th ( 2005/06 )
Jump World Cup	74th ( 1999/2000 )
Four Hills Tournament	50th ( 2009/10 )
Nordic Tournament	55th (2010)
Ski jumping Grand Prix
Overall Grand Prix	49th ( 1998 )
Ski Jumping Continental Cup (COC)
COC wins (individual)	01 ( details )
Overall ranking COC	40th ( 2004/05 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  Single jump 1 1 0

Korean spelling
Hangeul	김현기
Hanja	金 鉉 起
Revised Romanization	Gim Hyeon-gi
McCune- Reischauer	Kim Hyŏnki
See also : Korean name

Kim Hyun-ki (born February 9, 1983 in Gangneung , South Korea ) is a former South Korean ski jumper . He jumped for the ski club High 1, for which all South Korean professional jumpers work. He lives in Kangwondo .

Career

Kim regularly competes in the World Cup. For the first time he qualified for a World Cup competition in the 1999/2000 season . He has achieved World Cup points four times so far, with 21st place in Sapporo 2006 being his best individual result. With the South Korean team, he once achieved eighth place in 2002, also in Sapporo.

Kim Hyun-ki took part in the 1999 Nordic World Ski Championships in Ramsau at the age of 16 . His best World Cup placement comes from the Nordic World Ski Championships in 2005 when he was 38th on the large hill. Also in 2005 he reached 10th place with the team on the normal hill. Kim's best World Cup result, however, comes from the 2006 World Ski Flying Championships from Kulm, when he surprisingly reached the final and finally finished 30th.

At the Olympic Winter Games, Kim Hyun-ki has already been in the South Korean Olympic squad six times, for the first time as a 15-year-old in Nagano in 1998 . Since then, he took to the Games in 2018 in Pyeongchang continuously participated in every Winter Games. Both in Nagano and in the following games in 2002 in Salt Lake City , 2006 in Torino and 2010 in Vancouver missed Kim every time the finals of both the normal and the large hill. In 2014 in Sochi he again missed the final on the normal hill, on the large hill he failed in the qualification. At the 2018 Games in his home country, he was eliminated in qualification in both individual competitions. He achieved his best Olympic results in an individual competition and with the team at the Salt Lake City Games in 2002 (31st on the large hill and eighth in the team competition).

In 2009 he won the Universiade in Harbin, China, at the Yabuli venue on the normal hill with 99.5 m and 94.5 m in front of Marcin Bachleda from Poland and Bastian Kaltenböck from Austria. On the large hill he came second behind David Unterberger and in front of his compatriot Choi Heung-chul . In the team competition he won the gold medal together with Choi Heung-chul and Choi Yong-jik , ahead of Austria and Germany. At the Asian Winter Games he won the gold medal with the Korean team in Aomori in 2003 . In 2011 in Almaty and 2017 in Sapporo , he won the bronze medal in team jumping.

On September 5, 2009, he achieved his only Continental Cup victory at home jumping on the large hill in the Alpensia Jumping Park in Pyeongchang , after having finished second on the normal hill two days earlier.

Personal

Kim works as a trainer and speaks German as well as Korean.

successes

Continental Cup wins in singles

No.	date	place	Type
1.	September 5, 2009	Pyeongchang	Large hill

statistics

World Cup placements

season	space	Points
1999/00	76.	04th
2004/05	85.	03
2005/06	65.	10
2009/10	82.	02

Grand Prix placements

season	space	Points
1998	49.	04th
2008	53.	34
2009	58.	17th
2010	61.	14th
2012	84.	01

Web links

Commons : Kim Hyun-ki  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Kim Hyun-ki in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Kim Hyun-ki in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Universiade: Korea clears off" , at www.berkutschi.com, accessed on August 27, 2012.
2. ↑ "COC-M: Hula and Kim win at premiere in Korea" , at www.berkutschi.com, accessed on August 27, 2012.

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, Hyun-ki is the first name.