Kim Song-hui (table tennis player)

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Kim Song-hui Table tennis player
Nation: Korea NorthNorth Korea North Korea
Date of birth: November 25, 1968
Place of birth: Pyongyang
Size: 177 cm
Weight: 73 kg
Playing hand: right
How to play: Shakehand (attack)
Best world ranking : 20 (March 1993)

Kim Song-hui ( Korean 김송희; born November 25, 1968 in Pyongyang ) is a former North Korean table tennis player . He took part in the Olympic Games twice. With the team he won bronze three times at world championships .

Career

The North Korean has won a variety of medals in his career. Notable successes were winning the World Team Cup twice (1990 and 1991) and first place at the 1990 Asian Championships in doubles with Kim Kuk-chol .

At world championships he won a total of three bronze medals with the team and once in mixed. In 1992 and 1996 he was able to take part in the Olympic Games, but had to throw in the towel early.

In the early 2000s - at least from 2000 to 2003 - Kim Song-hui played for the Swedish club Kalmar BTK.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
PRK Asian Championship 1990 Kuala Lumpur MAS gold
PRK Olympic games 1992 Barcelona ESP Agony Agony
PRK Olympic games 1996 Atlanta OUT Agony
PRK World Championship 1985 Gothenburg SWE last 32
PRK World Championship 1987 New Delhi IND Quarter finals Quarter finals 3
PRK World Championship 1989 Dortmund GER last 16 last 32 Quarter finals 3
PRK World Championship 1991 Chiba JPN last 32 Quarter finals Semifinals 6th
PRK World Championship 1993 Gothenburg SWE last 32 last 16 last 16 3
PRK World Championship 2001 Osaka JPN last 64 last 32 last 32 19th
PRK World Team Cup 1990 Hokkaido JPN 3
PRK World Team Cup 1991 Barcelona ESP 3
PRK World cup 1990 Chiba JPN last 16

Private

Kim married in Pyongyang on September 27, 1992.

Web links

  • Kim Song-hui in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original ) (accessed February 13, 2020)
  • Kim Song-hui on the website of (tt-infos.de) (accessed February 13, 2020)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ tabletennis.guide: Kim Song Hui: video, ranking. Retrieved February 13, 2020 .
  2. ↑ 2000 in Kalmar according to Table Tennis News, No. 272, October 2000, page 5
  3. ^ Season 2003/03 in Kalmar according to the Austrian table tennis newspaper issue 50, Jan./Febr. 2003, page 8
  4. ↑ Kim Song Hui. Retrieved February 13, 2020 .
  5. ↑ 네이버 뉴스 라이브러리. Retrieved February 13, 2020 .
  6. ↑ 네이버 뉴스 라이브러리. Retrieved February 13, 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, Song-hui is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Kim, Song-hui
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 김송희 (Korean)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION North Korean table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Pyongyang