Kim Wan

Korean spelling
Hangeul	김완
Hanja	金 浣
Revised Romanization	Gim Wan
McCune- Reischauer	Kim Wan
See also : Korean name

Kim Wan (born March 27, 1961 ) is a South Korean table tennis player who was one of the strongest players in South Korea in the 1980s. He won two medals in World Cup tournaments.

Career

Kim Wan used the table tennis racket in the penholder style. From 1981 to 1987 he took part in four world championships . He came in 1985 with Kim Ki-taik in doubles in the quarter-finals. He was represented five times at the World Cup , where he lost to the Chinese Jiang Jialiang in the 1984 final . In 1986 he was third. He achieved several successes at the Asian Games . Here he reached the doubles final in 1982 with Kim Ki-taik and 1986 with Yoo Nam-kyu , in 1986 he won the tournament with the South Korean team.

In 1986 he became vice Asian champion in mixed with Hyun Jung-hwa . In the semifinals of the doubles competition he came at these championships in 1984 and 1988. In 1988 he qualified for participation in the Summer Olympics in Seoul.

In the ITTF world rankings , Kim Wan finished twelfth at the end of 1986.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
COR	Asian Championship ATTU	1988	Niigata	JPN	Quarter finals	Semifinals
COR	Asian Championship ATTU	1986	Shenzhen	CHN	last 16	Quarter finals	silver
COR	Asian Championship ATTU	1984	Islamabad	PAH		Semifinals
COR	Asian Games	1986	Seoul	COR	Semifinals	silver	Semifinals	1
COR	Asian Games	1982	New Delhi	IND	Quarter finals	silver
COR	Olympic games	1988	Seoul	COR	immediately excluded	4th
COR	World Championship	1987	New Delhi	IND	last 32	last 16	last 16	9
COR	World Championship	1985	Gothenburg	SWE	last 32	Quarter finals	last 64	9
COR	World Championship	1983	Tokyo	JPN	last 32	last 32	last 32	7th
COR	World Championship	1981	Novi Sad	YUG	last 32	last 64	Agony	9
COR	World cup	1988	Canton & Wuhan	United States	10
COR	World cup	1987	Macau	CHN	13
COR	World cup	1986	Port of Spain	TRI	3
COR	World cup	1985	Foshan	CHN	15th
COR	World cup	1984	Kuala Lumpur	MAS	silver

Individual evidence

1. ^ ITTF article, July 30, 2007 (accessed August 24, 2011)
2. ↑ World rankings 1947 to 2001 (Excel; 171 kB) (accessed on August 24, 2011)
3. ^ ITTF statistics (accessed September 9, 2011)

Web links

• Kim Wan in the database of Olympedia.org (English)

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, Wan is the first name.