Kim Kyeong-ae (curler)

Kim Kyeong-ae
birthday	21st January 1994 (age 26)
place of birth	Uiseong, South Korea
Career
nation	South Korea
society	Gyeongsangbukdo SC
Playing position	Third
Playing hand	right
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × PAM championship 2 × 1 × 1 × JWM championship 0 × 1 × 0 × JPAM medals 1 × 3 × 1 × 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 World Curling Championship silver 2014 Flims Junior Pacific Asian Championships silver 2010 Nayoro silver 2011 Naseby silver 2012 Jeonju City bronze 2013 Tokoro gold 2014 Harbin  Winter Asian Games silver 2017 Sapporo
last change: February 25, 2018

Kim Kyeong-ae ( Korean 김경애 ; born January 21, 1994 in Uiseong ) is a  South Korean  curler . She plays in the Korean national team in third under Skip  Kim Eun-jung .

Career

Kim began her international career at the Junior Pacific Championship 2010 , where she won the silver medal when she was third in the Korean junior team led by Skip Kim Eun-jung. This was followed by two more silver medals in 2011 and 2012 and a bronze medal in 2013, in which she played as Skip. She also held this position at the 2014 Junior Pacific Asia Championship . Your team won all games and thus the gold medal. She then played at the 2014 Junior World Championship , again as the skip of the Korean juniors. Your team moved into the play-offs and won in the semi-finals against the Swedes around Isabella Wranå . In the final she met the Canadian team around Kelsey Rocque and had to admit defeat 4: 6.

In 2012 she played for the first time at the Pacific Asia Cup . As third in Kim Eun-jung's team, she won the bronze medal. In 2014 she won the silver medal. She won the first gold medal in this competition in 2016 . She was able to repeat this success at the 2017 Pacific Asian Cup . In all previous appearances, she played third under Kim Eun-jung.

By winning the Pacific Asia Cup in 2016, she was able to take part in the 2017 World Cup with the Korean team and place sixth there.

Kim and her teammates (skip: Kim Eun-jung, second: Kim Seon-yeong , lead:  Kim Yeong-mi , substitute:  Kim Cho-hi ) represented South Korea in the women's curling competition of the  2018 Olympic Winter Games  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 made it to the playoffs with the Korean team, but lost the qualifying game against the USA (Skip: Jamie Sinclair ) and finished fifth in the final standings.

Private life

Kim Kyeong-Ae is the younger sister of Kim Yeong-mi , with whom she plays on the same curling team.

Web links

• Kim Kyeong-ae (curler) on Worldcurling.org (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Media Guide, Ford World Women's Championship 2018, p. 8
2. ↑ “If sketching is dreaming, participating in the Olympics is coloring”… meet Team Korea. In: worldcurling.com. World Curling Federation, July 28, 2017, accessed January 7, 2018 . 
3. ↑ S. Korean curlers eye multiple medals at PyeongChang 2018. In: yonhapnews.co.kr. August 11, 2017, accessed January 20, 2018 . 

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, Kyeong-ae is the first name.