Kim Mi-yong

Kim Mi-yong
Other spellings:	김미영
Nation:	North Korea
Date of birth:	May 6, 1983
Place of birth:	Namp'o
Size:	171 cm
Weight:	62 kg
Playing hand:	right
How to play:	Shakehand , attack
Best world ranking :	61 (June 2006)

Kim Mi-yong (also Kim Mi-yeong , Korean 김미영; born May 6, 1983 in Namp'o ) is a former North Korean table tennis player .

Career

In 2001 she was able to celebrate her first major successes on an international level: with the team she won silver at the World Cup . A year later she also won the gold medal with the team at the Asian Games.

She achieved further success on the Pro Tour. In 2008, the North Korean was able to qualify for the Olympic Games , but lost there in the second round to the Lithuanian Ruta Paškauskienė . In January 2010 she was 84th in the ITTF world rankings , her highest ranking in her career.

Results from the ITTF world rankings

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
PRK	World Championship	2008	Guangzhou	CHN				13
PRK	World Championship	2006	Bremen	GER				Quarter finals
PRK	World Championship	2005	Shanghai	CHN	last 64	last 16	last 128
PRK	World Championship	2001	Osaka	JPN	last 128	last 32	last 16	2
PRK	World Championship	2000	Kuala Lumpur	MAS				9
PRK	Olympic games	2008	Beijing	CHN	last 64
PRK	Asian Games	2002	Busan	COR	last 16	last 16		1
PRK	Pro tour	2008	Hangzhou	CHN	last 16	last 16

Web links

• Kim Mi-yong on the website of the World Table Tennis Federation (ittf.com) (accessed March 7, 2020)
• Kim Mi-yong in the Sports-Reference database (archived from the original ) (accessed March 8, 2020)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kim Mi Yong. Retrieved March 7, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Kim Mi Yong: video, ranking. Retrieved March 7, 2020 . 

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, Mi-yong is the first name.