Kim Yeong-mi
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birthday | 10th March 1991 (age 29) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Uiseong, South Korea | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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nation | South Korea | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
society | Gyeongsangbukdo SC | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing position | Lead | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing hand | right | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
status | active | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
- ↑ Media Guide, Ford World Women's Championship 2018, p. 28
- ↑ “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 .
- ↑ S. Korean curlers eye multiple medals at PyeongChang 2018. In: yonhapnews.co.kr. August 11, 2017, accessed January 20, 2018 .
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SURNAME | Kim, Yeong-mi |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 김영미 (Korean) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South Korean curler |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1991 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Uiseong |