Ra Kyung-min

Korean spelling
Hangeul	나경민
Hanja	羅景民
Revised Romanization	Na Gyeong-min
McCune- Reischauer	Well Kyŏngmin
See also : Korean name

Ra Kyung-min ( Korean 나경민 ; born November 25, 1976 in Seoul ) is a badminton player from South Korea .

In 1998, Ra Kyung-min won three titles at the Swedish Open . Ra and Lee Kyung-won won the women's doubles at the Swiss Open in 2001 and successfully defended this title in 2002. This year she became champion of the Swiss Open again together with her mixed partner Kim Dong-moon .

In 2003 Ra won the women's doubles at the German Open together with Lee Kyung-won. In addition, she was the winner of this event in mixed with Kim Dong-moon. In 2004, Ra and her partner Kim Dong-moon won the mixed at the Swiss Open .

Ra took part in badminton for Korea at the 2004 Olympics in women's doubles with her partner Lee Kyung-won. They had a bye in the first round and in the second round they beat Pernille Harder and Mette Schjoldager from Denmark . In the quarterfinals, Ra and Lee beat Lotte Bruil and Mia Audina from the Netherlands 15: 5, 15: 2. They lost the semi-final against Zhang Jiewen and Yang Wei from China with 15: 6, 15: 4, but won the match for third place against Zhao Tingting and Wei Yili , also from China , with 10:15, 15: 9, 15: 7 to win the bronze medal.

Ra also took part in the mixed competition with her partner Kim Dong-moon. They had a bye in the first round and defeated Chris Bruil and Lotte Bruil from the Netherlands in the second. In the quarterfinals, Ra and Kim lost to Jonas Rasmussen and Rikke Olsen from Denmark 17:14, 15: 8.

Web links

• Ra Kyung-min 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. Ra is the family name here, Kyung-min is the first name.