Kim Jung-su

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Korean spelling
Hangeul 김정수
Revised
Romanization
Gim Jeong-su
McCune-
Reischauer
Kim Chŏngsu

Kim Jung-su (born July 7, 1981 ) is a South Korean skeleton pilot and bobsleigh driver .

Kim Jung-su lives in Gangwon-do . He has been driving skeleton since 2006 and has also been a member of the South Korean national team since that year. In November of that year he drove his first international race in the European Skeleton Cup in Igls and finished 45th. In January 2007, he finished tenth in the top ten for the first time. Since January 2008, Kim mainly competed in the Skeleton America's Cup . The best result in this series so far is eleventh place in November of that year in Calgary . In December 2008, Kim started a race in the Skeleton World Cup in Igls for the first time and finished 27th there.

Kim has also been a pusher in Kang Kwang-bae's bobsleigh since he started skeleton . In the European Cup, his best result so far in the two-man bobsleigh is 27th (December 2007 in Königssee ) and 38th in the four-bobsleigh (November 2007 in Igls). In the America's Cup he came third (January 2008 in Park City ) in the four and nine in the two-man bobsleigh (October 2008 in Park City) as the best results. At the Bobsleigh World Championships 2008 in Altenberg , South Korea's four-man bobsleigh with Kim came 22nd. With the four-man bobsleigh, the South Korean team made their debut in the Bobsleigh World Cup in Winterberg in November 2008 and finished 25th.