Choi Min-kyung

Choi Min-kyung
nation	France
birthday	August 25, 1982
place of birth	Seoul ,  South Korea
size	162 cm
Weight	60 kg
Career
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 2 × 1 × EM medals 0 × 2 × 0 × JWM medals 0 × 1 × 1 ×
winter Olympics gold 2002 Salt Lake City 3000 m relay  Short track world championships silver 2000 Sheffield 3000 m relay silver 2001 Jeonju 3000 m relay gold 2002 Montreal 3000 m relay bronze 2005 Beijing 3000 m relay  European Short Track Championships silver 2005 Turin 3000 m relay silver 2005 Krynica-Zdrój 3000 m relay  Short track junior world championships silver 2000 Székesfehérvár All-around bronze 2001 Warsaw All-around

Choi Min-kyung ( kor. 최민경 ; born August 25, 1982 in Seoul ) is a French short tracker of South Korean descent.

Career

Choi started for South Korea until 2002, but then took on French citizenship.

As a South Korean

At the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano , she was fourth over 500 m. She took part in the 1999 Asian Winter Games in Gangwon and won silver over 500 m and bronze over 3000 m. Bronze at the Junior World Championships in Székesfehérvár in 2000 and a year later in Warsaw . At the Winter Universiade 2001 in Zakopane she won gold over 1000 and 1500 m and bronze over 3000 m. She won silver with the 3000 m relay at the 2000 World Championships in Sheffield , which she was able to repeat the following year . In 2002 she became world champion with the relay. At the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City , she was Olympic champion with the relay.

As a French woman

Choi won bronze with the French relay at the 2005 World Championships in Beijing . At the European Championships in 2005 and 2006 , she won silver with the relay.

Web links

• Choi Min-kyung in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Choi is the family name here, Min-kyung is the first name.