Kim Min-chan

Kim Min-chan
birthday	26th February 1987 (age 33)
Career
nation	South Korea
society	Gyeongsangbukdo SC
Playing position	Second / Third
Playing hand	right
status	active
Medal table
PAM championship 1 × 0 × 2 × University championship 1 × 0 × 0 × JPAM medals 0 × 1 × 1 ×
Pacific Asian Curling Championships bronze 2009 Karuizawa bronze 2011 Nanjing gold 2017 Erina  Winter Universiade gold 2011 Erzurum Junior Pacific Curling Championship bronze 2006 Beijing silver 2007 Naseby
last change: February 28, 2018

Kim Min-chan (born February 26, 1987 ) is a South Korean curler .

Career

Kim started curling in Daegu in 1985 . Since 2006 he has played third in Skip Kim Chang-min's team . His first international competition was the Junior Pacific Championship in 2006 , in which he finished third. At the Junior World Championship in the same year he was fifth with the South Korean junior team. The following year he won the silver medal at the Junior Pacific Championships in 2007 .

In 2009 and 2011 he won the bronze medal at the Pacific Championships . After a fourth place in 2012, he won the gold medal in his fourth participation in this competition in 2017 . With this victory, South Korea qualified for the 2018 World Cup in Las Vegas. There Kim came in second after a defeat in the game for 3rd place against the Scottish team around Bruce Mouat in fourth place.

At the 2018 Winter Olympics in his own country, he was nominated as a substitute for the Korean national team for Kim Chang-min. The Koreans finished seventh, with Kim playing in two games.

Web links

• Kim Min-chan on Worldcurling.org (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Athlete Profile - Kim Minchan. In: olympic.org. Accessed February 28, 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, Min-chan is the first name.