Kim Ki-taik

Korean spelling
Hangeul	김기택
Hanja	金琦澤
Revised Romanization	Gim Gi-taek
McCune- Reischauer	Kim Kit'aek
See also : Korean name

Kim Ki-taik (born October 3, 1962 ) is a table tennis player from South Korea who appeared in international tournaments in the 1980s. He won silver in the men's singles at the 1988 Olympics.

International success

Kim Ki-taik was nominated for all five world championships in the 1980s. He reached the quarterfinals in 1983 and 1985 in singles and 1985 in doubles. In 1982 he came to the Asian Games in doubles with Kim Wan in the final. At the Summer Olympics in Seoul in 1988, he won the individual silver medal behind his compatriot Yoo Nam-kyu .

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
COR	Asian Championship ATTU	1988	Niigata	JPN		Semifinals
COR	Asian Championship ATTU	1984	Islamabad	PAH	Quarter finals	Semifinals
COR	Asian Cup	1987	Seoul	COR	3
COR	Asian Games	1982	New Delhi	IND		silver	Quarter finals
COR	Olympic games	1988	Seoul	COR	Silver medal	4th
COR	World Championship	1989	Dortmund	FRG	last 32	last 16	last 64	5
COR	World Championship	1987	New Delhi	IND	last 32	last 16	last 16	9
COR	World Championship	1985	Gothenburg	SWE	Quarter finals	Quarter finals	last 64	9
COR	World Championship	1983	Tokyo	JPN	Quarter finals	last 32	last 32	7th
COR	World Championship	1981	Novi Sad	YUG	Agony	last 64	last 32	9
COR	World cup	1988	Canton & Wuhan	United States	12
COR	World cup	1987	Macau	CHN	9
COR	World cup	1986	Port of Spain	TRI	13
COR	World cup	1985	Foshan	CHN	6th
COR	World cup	1983	Barbados	0	11

Web links

• Kim Ki-taik in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Profile at DatabaseOlympics.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ ITTF statistics (accessed September 9, 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, Ki-taik is the first name.