Lee Ki-bok

Lee Ki-bok
birthday	18th July 1995 (age 25)
Career
nation	South Korea
Playing position	Lead
Playing hand	right
status	active
Medal table
PAM championship 1 × 0 × 0 × JWM championship 1 × 0 × 0 × JBWM championship 0 × 0 × 1 × JPAM championship 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Pacific Asian Curling Championships gold 2017 Erina Junior World Curling Championship gold 2017 Pyeongchang Junior B World Curling Championship bronze 2016 Lohja Junior Pacific Asian Championships gold 2015 Naseby
last change: January 6, 2018

Lee Ki-bok (born July 18, 1995 ) is a  South Korean  curler . He plays in the Korean national team on the position of lead under Skip  Kim Chang-min .

Career

Lee played for the first time internationally at the Junior Pacific Asian Championships in 2015 as third in Skip Lee Ki Jeong's team . The Korean juniors won the gold medal and then took part in the 2015 World Junior Championships , where they finished seventh. In 2016 he played with the Korean junior team in the Junior B World Championship and won the bronze medal. South Korea qualified for the 2017 Junior World Championship , in which Lee again played in third under Skip Lee Ki Jeong. The Koreans moved into the final and defeated the US junior team around Skip Andrew Stopera 5: 4.

At the Mixed World Championship in 2016 he was the skip of the South Korean team. He moved into the play-offs, but lost in the game for 3rd place against the Scottish team with Skip Cameron Bryce .

At the 2017 Pacific Asia Cup , he played as the lead in Kim Chang-min's team and won the gold medal after beating Skip Dejia Zou's Chinese team in the final . With this victory, South Korea qualified for the 2018 World Cup  in Las Vegas. There Lee came fourth after a defeat in the game for 3rd place against the Scottish team around Bruce Mouat .

Lee and his teammates (Skip: Kim Chang-min, Third: Seong Se-hyeon , Second:  Oh Eun-su , Alternate:  Kim Min-chan ) represented South Korea at the  2018 Winter Olympics  in their home country. After four wins and five losses in the Round Robin , they came in seventh place.

Web links

• Lee Ki-bok on Worldcurling.org (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ “If sketching is dreaming, participating in the Olympics is coloring”… meet Team Korea, World Curling Federation . Retrieved January 6, 2018

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Lee is the family name here, Ki-bok is the first name.