Ri Mi-gyong

Ri Mi-gyong
Nation:	North Korea
Date of birth:	September 30, 1990
Size:	166 cm
Weight:	60 kg
Playing hand:	Left handed
How to play:	Shakehand , attack
Current world rankings :	112
Best world ranking :	44 (Oct. 2013)

Ri Mi-gyong (born September 30, 1990 in Kangwŏn-do ) is a North Korean table tennis player . She took part in the Olympic Games in 2012 .

Career

She had her first international appearance in 2011 at the World Championships in Rotterdam , where she was among the best 64 and then eliminated against Guo Yue . The following year she competed at the China Open and was part of the North Korean team at the World Cup and Olympic Games , which reached the main round. In the world rankings , Ri reached a place in the top 100 for the first time in April 2012. In 2013, she competed in all three individual competitions at the World Cup , in doubles with Ri Myong-sun , she reached the second round. In October she reached 44th place, a personal record in the world rankings.

With the team she reached the quarter-finals at the 2014 World Cup , which were lost to China , and at the Asian Games, the team won bronze. In 2015, Ri took part in the World Team Cup, where she reached the final as part of the North Korean team, which was lost again to China. At the side of Kim Hye-song she won the double competition of the Asian Cup by beating Miu Hirano and Mima Itō in the final . At the 2016 Team World Cup , North Korea won the first World Cup medal since 1991. In the quarter-finals, the North Koreans surprisingly beat the former world champions from Singapore. She also took part in the 2016 Olympic Games with the team , where North Korea was eliminated from China in the quarter-finals. In 2017 Ri was nominated by the association for the Asian and World Cups and made it to the quarter-finals and the second round in doubles. After the Pyongyang Open, where she won silver in doubles, she did not appear internationally for the time being.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
PRK	Asian Championship	2017	Wuxi	CHN	last 64	Quarter finals	last 16	5th place
PRK	Asian Championship	2015	Pattaya	THA	last 64	gold	Semifinals	5th place
PRK	Asian Games	2014	Suwon	COR	last 16			Semifinals
PRK	Olympic games	2016	Rio de Janeiro	BRA				Quarter finals
PRK	Olympic games	2012	London	CLOSELY				Quarter finals
PRK	Challenge Series	2017	Pyongyang	PRK	Quarter finals	silver
PRK	World Tour	2016	Pyongyang	PRK	last 16	silver
PRK	World Tour	2015	Pyongyang	PRK	Semifinals	silver
PRK	World Championship	2017	Dusseldorf	GER	last 32	last 16	last 32
PRK	World Championship	2016	Kuala Lumpur	MAS				Semifinals
PRK	World Championship	2015	Suzhou	CHN	last 64	last 32
PRK	World Championship	2014	Tokyo	JPN				Quarter finals
PRK	World Championship	2013	Paris	FRA	last 64	last 16	last 32
PRK	World Championship	2012	Dortmund	GER				9-12 space
PRK	World Championship	2011	Rotterdam	NED	last 64		last 64
PRK	Youth World Championship	2012	Hyderabad	IND	last 16	Quarter finals	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
PRK	World Team Cup	2015	Dubai	UAE				silver

Web links

• Ri Mi-gyong Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Ri Mi-Gyong Bio, Stats, and Results. Retrieved December 20, 2018 . 

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Ri is the family name here, Mi-gyong is the first name.