Shim Suk-hee

Shim Suk-hee
nation	South Korea
birthday	30th January 1997 (age 23)
place of birth	Gangneung , South Korea
Career
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 2 × 1 × 1 × World Cup medals 11 × 5 × 4 × Youth Olympics 2 × 0 × 1 × JWM medals 5 × 0 × 1 ×
winter Olympics gold 2014 Sochi 3000 m relay silver 2014 Sochi 1500 m bronze 2014 Sochi 1000 m gold 2018 Pyeongchang 3000 m relay  Short track world championships gold 2013 Debrecen 3000 m silver 2013 Debrecen 1500 m bronze 2013 Debrecen All-around gold 2014 Montreal All-around gold 2014 Montreal 1000 m gold 2014 Montreal 1500 m gold 2014 Montreal 3000 m superfinal gold 2015 Moscow Season silver 2015 Moscow 1500 m silver 2015 Moscow 3000 m bronze 2015 Moscow All-around gold 2016 Seoul Season gold 2017 Rotterdam 3000 m bronze 2017 Rotterdam All-around bronze 2017 Rotterdam 1500 m gold 2018 Montreal 1000 m gold 2018 Montreal Season silver 2018 Montreal All-around silver 2018 Montreal 1500 m gold 2019 Sofia Season  Youth Olympic Winter Games gold 2012 Innsbruck 500 m gold 2012 Innsbruck 1000 m bronze 2012 Innsbruck Season  Short track junior world championships gold 2012 Melbourne All-around gold 2012 Melbourne 500 m gold 2012 Melbourne 1000 m gold 2012 Melbourne 1500 m gold 2012 Melbourne 3000 m relay bronze 2012 Melbourne 1500 m superfinals
Placements in the Short Track World Cup
Debut in the World Cup 20th October 2012  World Cup victories 45 (including 29 individual victories)  Overall World Cup 1. ( 2012/13 , 2013/14 )  500 m world cup 5th ( 2013/14 )  1000 m world cup 1. ( 2013/14 , 2014/15 )  1500 m world cup 1. ( 2012/13 , 2013/14 , 2016/17 )
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  500 meters 0 0 3  1000 meters 11 2 4th  1500 meters 18th 5 2  Relay / team 16 7th 1
last change: March 18, 2019

Shim Suk-hee ( kor. 심석희 ; born January 30, 1997 in Gangneung ) is a South Korean short tracker .

Career

Shim started the short track sport at the age of seven. At the Junior World Championships in 2012 , she won five gold medals and one bronze medal. Also in 2012 she won the two gold medals in the individual competitions over 500 m and 1000 m at the Winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck . She also won the bronze medal with the relay. She made her World Cup debut on October 20, 2012 in Calgary when she won the 1500m. In the further course of the season she achieved 12 podium finishes in the World Cup, nine of which were wins. Shim won three medals at the 2013 World Championships . At the end of the season she took first place in the 1500 m World Cup. In the 2013/14 season she won the World Cup nine times, came second and third. She also won the World Cup over 1000 m and 1500 m. At the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi , she won over 3000 m gold, over 1500 m silver and over 1000 m bronze with the relay. She won four gold medals at the 2014 World Cup in Montreal .

In the 2014/15 season, Shim reached 11 podiums in the World Cup, six of which were first. At the 2015 World Championships in Moscow , she won bronze in the all-around event, silver over 1500 m and 3000 m and gold in the relay. In the World Cup over 1500 m she came in second place and over 1000 m in first place. In the following season she won eight World Cups, four of them in singles. In addition, she achieved second place twice and third place once and thus achieved third place in the overall World Cup over 1000 m and second place over 1500 m. At the season highlight of the 2016 World Championships in Seoul , she won the gold medal with the relay. In the 2016/17 season she won in Calgary , Salt Lake City , Shanghai and Gangneung over 1500 m and with the relay. In addition, she was second in Calgary over 1000 m and third in Gangneung over 1000 m. She won the 1500 m World Cup for the third time and was eighth in the 1000 m World Cup. At the Winter Asian Games 2017 in Sapporo , she won the silver medal over 1500 m and the gold medal over 1000 m and with the relay. In March 2017 she won the bronze medal and the gold medal over 3000 m at the world championships in Rotterdam in the all- around event and over 1500 m. At the beginning of the 2017/18 season, she triumphed in Budapest with the relay and also came third over 500 m. In Dordrecht she won over 1000 m and took third place over 1500 m and second place with the relay. In November 2017 she won the 1500 m and relay in Shanghai and came second in the 1500 m and third with the relay in Seoul. She finally achieved third place in the World Cup over 1000 m and second place in the World Cup over 1500 m. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , Suk-hee won the gold medal with the 3000 m relay. In March 2018, at the World Championships in Montreal , she won the silver medal in the all- around event and over 1500 m and the gold medal over 1000 m and relay.

In the 2018/19 season, Shim finished second in Calgary with the relay and in Almaty with the relay and the mixed relay. At the 2019 World Championships in Sofia , she won the gold medal with the relay. In the all-around competition, she achieved 39th place there.

Placements in the World Cup

World Cup victories

singles No. date place discipline 1. 20th October 2012  Calgary 1500 m 2. October 21, 2012  Calgary 1000 m 3. October 27, 2012  Montreal 1500 m 4th December 1, 2012  Nagoya 1500 m 5. December 8, 2012  Shanghai 1500 m 6th December 9, 2012  Shanghai 1000 m 7th February 2, 2013  Sochi 1500 m 8th. February 9, 2013  Dresden 1000 m 9. February 10, 2013  Dresden 1500 m 10. September 28, 2013  Shanghai 1500 m 11. 29th September 2013  Shanghai 1000 m 12. October 6, 2013  Seoul 1000 m 13. November 9, 2013  Turin 1500 m 14th November 10, 2013  Turin 1000 m 15th November 16, 2013  Kolomna 1500 m 16. November 8, 2014  Salt Lake City 1500 m 17th November 9, 2014  Salt Lake City 1000 m 18th November 16, 2014  Montreal 1000 m 19th February 8, 2015  Dresden 1500 m 20th October 31, 2015  Montreal 1500 m 21st November 1, 2015  Montreal 1000 m 22nd November 8, 2015  Toronto 1000 m 23. December 13, 2015  Shanghai 1500 m 24. 5th November 2016  Calgary 1500 m 25th November 13, 2016  Salt Lake City 1500 m 26th December 10, 2016  Shanghai 1500 m 27. 17th December 2016  Gangneung 1500 m 28. October 8, 2017  Dordrecht 1000 m 29 November 11, 2017  Shanghai 1500 m

Season No. date place 1. October 21, 2012  Calgary 1st 2. 29th September 2013  Shanghai 2 3. October 6, 2013  Seoul 2 4th November 10, 2013  Turin 2 5. November 9, 2014  Salt Lake City 3 6th November 16, 2014  Montreal 4 7th November 1, 2015  Montreal 5 8th. November 8, 2015  Toronto 6 9. December 6, 2015  Nagoya 6 10. December 13, 2015  Shanghai 6 11. November 6, 2016  Calgary 7 12. November 13, 2016  Salt Lake City 8 13. December 10, 2016  Shanghai 8 14th 17th December 2016  Gear inclination 8 15th October 1, 2017  Budapest 9 16. November 12, 2017  Shanghai 10 1With Cho Ha-ri , Choi Ji-hyun and Kim Min-jung . 2With Kim A-lang , Cho Ha-ri and Park Seung-hi . 3With Jeon Ji-soo , Kim A-lang and Choi Min-jeong . 4thWith Jeon Ji-soo, Lee Eun-byul and Choi Min-jeong. 5 With Choi Min-jeong, Kim A-lang and Lee Eun-byul. 6thWith Choi Min-jeong, Kim A-lang and Noh Do-hee . 7thWith Choi Min-jeong, Noh Do-hee and Kim Geon-hee . 8thWith Noh Do-hee, Kim Ji-yoo and Choi Min-jeong. 9With Kim A-lang, Choi Min-jeong and Kim Ye-jin . 10With Kim Ye-jin, Lee Yu-bin and Choi Min-jeong.

World Cup overall placements

season	500 m		1000 m		1500 m
	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space
2012/13	640	17th	3,640	2.	6,000	1.
2013/14	12,594	5.	30,000	1.	30,000	1.
2014/15	4,096	21st	39,745	1.	34,438	2.
2015/16	5,120	21st	26,400	3.	36,000	2.
2016/17	3,277	25th	15,742	8th.	40,000	1.
2017/18	6,681	11.	16,462	3.	24,400	2.
2018/19	563	42.	5,070	21st	7,348	13.

Personal bests

• 500 m 42.898 sec. (installed on March 15, 2014 in Montreal)
• 1000 m 1: 26.661 min. (installed on October 21, 2012 in Calgary)
• 1500 m 2: 17.513 min. (installed on October 20, 2012 in Calgary)
• 3000 m 4: 50.829 min. (installed on March 16, 2014 in Montreal)

Web links

Commons : Shim Suk-hee  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Shim Suk-hee at ISU
• Shim Suk-hee on The-Sports.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Profile on sochi2014.com

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Shim is the family name here, Suk-hee is the first name.