Kim Yun-mi (table tennis player)

Kim Yun-mi
Nation:	North Korea
Date of birth:	April 28, 1981
Place of birth:	Pyongyang
Size:	162 cm
Weight:	55 kg
Playing hand:	right
How to play:	Penholder (attack)
Best world ranking :	31 (November-December 2001)

Kim Yun-mi ( Korean 김윤미; born April 28, 1981 in Pyongyang ) is a former North Korean table tennis player .

She is right-handed and uses the European penholder stick position as a handle . Kim took part in the 2004 Olympic Games individual competition. Here she won against the Nigerian Cecilia Otu Offiong and lost to the Chinese Wang Nan .

In 2000, the North Korean competed in her first world championship , where she reached the round of 16 with the team. In 2001 she was able to win bronze in the individual as well as silver with the team at the same event. In this tournament she surprised her opponents with her unusual style: on the forehand she pulled topspins with a sponge coating, with long pimples on the backhand she repeatedly managed to stab the ball off in a disgusting way .

In 2002 she won the Asian Games with the North Korean selection .

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
PRK	Asian Games	2002	Busan	COR	last 16	Quarter finals	last 32	1
PRK	Olympic games	2004	Athens	GRE	last 32
PRK	Volkswagen Open	2004	Cheng you	CHN	last 32	last 16
PRK	Pro tour	2004	Beijing	CHN	last 16	Quarter finals
PRK	World Championship	2001	Osaka	JPN	Semifinals			2
PRK	World Championship	2000	Kuala Lumpur	MAS				9

Web links

• Kim Yun-mi on the website of (tt-infos.de) (accessed on March 6, 2020)
• Player profile about Kim Yun-mi on tabletennis.guide (accessed March 6, 2020)
• Kim Yun-mi in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ) (accessed March 6, 2020)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Kim Yun Wed. Retrieved March 6, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Kim Yun Mi: video, ranking. Retrieved March 6, 2020 . 

literature

• Rahul Nelson: Korea-Uschi - With her unusual technique, the North Korean shocked almost everyone and almost reached the final, DTS magazine , 2001/5 page 18

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, Yun-mi is the first name.