Kim Seon-yeong
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birthday | 18th May 1993 (age 27) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Uiseong, South Korea | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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nation | South Korea | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
society | Gyeongsangbukdo SC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing position | Second | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing hand | right | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
status | active | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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last change: February 25, 2018 |
Kim Seon-yeong ( Korean 김선영 ; born May 18, 1993 in Uiseong ) is a South Korean curler . She plays in the Korean national team on the position of second under Skip Kim Eun-jung .
Career
Kim began her international career at the Junior Pacific Championship 2010 , where she won the silver medal as second in the Korean junior team led by Skip Kim Eun-jung. Two more silver medals followed in 2011 and 2012 and a bronze medal in 2013 when she played third for Skip Kim Kyeong-ae . She also held this position at the 2014 Junior Pacific Asia Championship . She and her team won all games and thus the gold medal. Kim then played at the 2014 Junior World Championships as third 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 second 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 participations she played second 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, third: Kim Kyeong-ae, lead: Kim Yeong-mi , substitute: Kim Cho-hi ) represented South Korea at the women's curling competition at the 2018 Winter Olympics 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.
Web links
- Kim Seon-yeong on Worldcurling.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Media Guide, Ford World Women's Championship 2018, p. 27
- ↑ “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 .
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SURNAME | Kim, Seon-yeong |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 김선영 (Korean) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South Korean curler |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 18, 1993 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Uiseong |