Kim Yeong-mi

Kim Yeong-mi
birthday	10th March 1991 (age 29)
place of birth	Uiseong, South Korea
Career
nation	South Korea
society	Gyeongsangbukdo SC
Playing position	Lead
Playing hand	right
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × PAM championship 2 × 1 × 1 × JPAM medals 0 × 3 × 0 × WAS medals 0 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver 2018 Pyeongchang Pacific Asian Curling Championships bronze 2012 Naseby silver 2014 Kariuzawa gold 2016 Uiseong gold 2017 Erina Junior Pacific Asian Championships silver 2010 Nayoro silver 2011 Naseby silver 2012 Jeonju City  Winter Asian Games silver 2017 Sapporo
last change: February 25, 2018

Kim Yeong-mi ( Korean 김영미 ; born March 10, 1991 in Uiseong ) is a  South Korean  curler . She plays in the Korean national team as the lead under Skip  Kim Eun-jung .

Career

Kim began her international career at the  Junior Pacific Championship 2010 , where she won the silver medal as the lead in the Korean junior team led by Skip Kim Eun-jung. Two more silver medals followed in 2011 and 2012.

In 2012 she played for the first time at the  Pacific Asia Cup . As the lead 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 as lead 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 , second:  Kim Seon-yeong , substitute:  Kim Cho-hi ) represented South Korea in the women's curling competition of the  2018 Olympic Winter Games  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.

Private life

Kim Yeong-mi is the older sister of Kim Kyeong-ae , with whom she plays on the same curling team.

Web links

• Kim Yeong-mi on Worldcurling.org (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Media Guide, Ford World Women's Championship 2018, p. 28
2. ↑ “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 . 
3. ↑ S. Korean curlers eye multiple medals at PyeongChang 2018. In: yonhapnews.co.kr. August 11, 2017, accessed January 20, 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, Yeong-mi is the first name.