Lee Ki-jeong

Lee Ki-jeong
birthday	July 18, 1995
Career
nation	South Korea
society	Gyeongsangbukdo SC
Playing position	Skip
Playing hand	right
status	active
Medal table
JWM championship 1 × 0 × 0 × JB World Championship medals 0 × 0 × 1 × JPAM medals 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Junior World Curling Championship gold 2017 Pyeongchang Junior B World Curling Championship bronze 2016 Lohja Junior Pacific Asian Championships gold 2015 Naseby
last change: February 9, 2018

Lee Ki-jeong ( Korean 이기정 , 李 基 政 ; * July 18, 1995 ) is a South Korean curler .

Lee played for the first time internationally at the Junior Pacific Asia Cup in 2015 . As the skip of the Korean junior team, he won the gold medal by beating the Chinese team around Wang Jinbo. At the Junior World Championship in 2015 he came in seventh place. In 2016 he secured his participation in the Junior World Championship by finishing third in the B World Championship . Again as the skip of the Korean team, he moved into the final of the World Cup, defeated Andrew Stopera's US team and won the gold medal.

In 2016 he played for the first time at the Mixed Doubles World Championship in 2016 . Together with Jang Hye-ji he came in 13th place. In the following year , the two were able to improve significantly with sixth place. At the 2018 Winter Olympics , they competed in their home country in the first mixed doubles competition. After two wins and five losses in the Round Robin , they finished sixth. After the positive doping results from Alexander Kruschelnizki and the disqualification of the Olympic Athletes from Russia team , they moved up to fifth place.

Private life

His brother Lee Ki-bok also plays curling and plays as the lead of the Korean men's national team.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Final Standings - Mixed Doubles. In: olympic.org. World Curling Federation, accessed February 23, 2018 . 
2. ^ Profile of Lee Ki-jeong. In: www.pyeongchang2018.com. Retrieved February 9, 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-jeong is the first name.