Kim Song-i

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Kim Song-i Table tennis player
Kim Song-i
Kim Song-i (in blue jersey)
Other spellings: 김송이
Nation: Korea NorthNorth Korea North Korea
Date of birth: August 10, 1994
Place of birth: Pyongyang
Size: 161 cm
Weight: 55 kg
Playing hand: right
How to play: Shakehand ( defense )
Current world rankings : 46 (March 2018) Template: Infobox table tennis player / maintenance / local value
Best world ranking : 19 (July 2017)

Kim Song-i ( Korean 김송이; born August 10, 1994 in Pyongyang ) is a North Korean table tennis player . She won singles at the 2016 Olympic Games and bronze at the 2016 and 2018 World Championships with the team.

Career

Kim Song-i was seen on the international stage at the age of 16, at the 2010 Youth Olympic Games she reached the quarter-finals in the individual and 4th place with the team, moving up to 121st place in the world rankings .

At the China Open 2013 she reached the semi-finals in the U-21 competition and thus won her first medal on the World Tour . At the Asian Games in 2014 , she won bronze with the team.

In 2015 she took part in the Asian Cup and the Pyongyang and China Open, where she defeated the top 10 player Mima Itō . In 2016 she was nominated third at the team world championships in Malaysia with the North Korean team and then for the Olympic Games .

Here she lost in the singles only in the semifinals against the reigning world champion Ding Ning , she was able to beat Yu Mengyu and the top 10 players Kasumi Ishikawa and Ai Fukuhara , so that she won bronze. This month she improved to number 26 in the world rankings.

At the Pyongyang Open in the same year she made it to the finals, where she defeated Ri Myong-sun , who also played defensively , and also won gold in doubles. In 2017 she made it to the round of 16 at the World Championships , where she lost to Liu Shiwen .

In 2018 she reached the semi-finals with the Korean team at the Team World Cup , where North Korea had to let China go first. In September she received the wildcard for her first participation in the World Cup , in which she reached the round of 16.

Results from the ITTF database

Mention of results of the World Tour / Challenge Series only if at least one medal has been won.

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team U-21
PRK Asian Games 2018 Jakarta IDN last 16 2
PRK Asian Games 2014 Suwon COR last 16 3
PRK Asian Championship 2019 Yogyakarta IDN last 16 Quarter finals
PRK Asian Championship 2017 Wuxi CHN last 16 last 16 Quarter finals
PRK Asian Championship 2015 Pattaya THA last 64 Quarter finals Quarter finals
PRK Olympic games 2016 Rio de Janeiro BRA 3rd place Quarter finals
PRK Youth Olympic Games 2010 Singapore SIN Quarter finals 4th Place
PRK Universiade 2017 Taipei TPE Semifinals
PRK ITTF Challenge Series 2018 Pyongyang PRK gold
PRK ITTF Challenge Series 2017 Pyongyang PRK gold gold
PRK ITTF World Tour 2016 Pyongyang PRK gold gold
PRK ITTF World Tour 2015 Cheng you CHN last 16 Semifinals
PRK ITTF World Tour 2015 Pyongyang PRK Quarter finals gold gold
PRK ITTF World Tour 2013 Suzhou CHN last 64 last 16 Semifinals
PRK World Championship 2019 Budapest HUN last 16 Quarter finals
PRK World Championship 2018 Halmstad SWE 3
PRK World Championship 2017 Dusseldorf GER last 16
PRK World Championship 2016 Kuala Lumpur MAS 3
PRK World cup 2018 Cheng you CHN last 16
PRK World Team Cup 2018 London CLOSELY 3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b player profile. ittf.link, accessed on March 16, 2018 .
  2. ^ Ian Marshall: Birthday present for Kim Song I, the bronze medal. ittf.com, March 21, 2017, accessed March 17, 2018 .
  3. ↑ World Cup 2016 in Kuala Lumpur. tischtennis-infos.de, accessed on March 17, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b Kim Song I beats Ai Fukuhara and wins bronze. tt-spin.de, August 11, 2016, accessed on March 17, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Official ITTF Channel: 2016 Pyongyang Open Highlights: Ri Myong Sun vs Kim Song I (Final). July 3, 2016, accessed March 16, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Overview Song I Kim - Shiwen Liu 0: 4 (World Cup Women 2017, round of 16). Retrieved on March 16, 2018 (German).
  7. ↑ World Team Cup 2018 in London. Retrieved March 16, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Matches. ittf.link, accessed on March 16, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Kim Song-i
BRIEF DESCRIPTION North Korean table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH August 10, 1994
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-i is the first name.