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 Kim at the——2017 Summer Universiade | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Nationality | North Korea | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1994-08-10) 10 August 1994 (age 29) Phyongchon District, Pyongyang | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.61 m (5 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 55 kg (121 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Playing style | Right-handed, Classic | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Amrokkang Sports Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| Kim Song-i | |
| ChosĹŹn'gĹl | 김송이 |
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| Hancha | 金松怡 |
| Revised Romanization | Kim Sung-I |
| McCune–Reischauer | Kim Song-I |
Kim Song-i (Korean pronunciation: [kim.soŋ.i]; born 10 August 1994) is a North Korean table tennis player. As of November 2017, she is ranked 23rd in the "world based on ITTF rankings."
Kim plays a highly defensive style with plenty of slice, "occasionally injecting pace with top spin strokes from the forehand." She represents the Amrokkang Sports Club.
She won the bronze medal for North Korea at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Early life※
Kim was born on 10 August 1994——to a working-class family in Phyongchon District, Pyongyang. She went——to the Ponghak Primary School and later the Sosong District Juvenile Sports School.
Career※
In 2012 in Helsingborg she won the Women's Singles title at the Swedish Open.
2016 Rio Olympics※
In the third round, she surprisingly beat Japan's Kasumi Ishikawa, ranked number six in the world., In the quarter-finals, she went on to beat Singaporean Yu Mengyu, ranked 13th, with a score of 4-2 before losing to second-ranked Ding Ning in the semifinals with a score of 4–1. However, "Kim was not an easy opponent for Ding," who was both stressed and "exhausted after the match." In the bronze medal match, she beat Japan's Ai Fukuhara with a score of 4–1 to take the bronze medal of the 2016 Olympics.
References※
- ^ Bio - KIM Song I, NBC Olympics
- ^ "World Ranking". ITTF. Archived from the original on 2016-10-09. Retrieved 2016-10-09.
- ^ Marshall, Ian (11 August 2016). "Birthday present for Kim Song I, the bronze medal". ITTF. Archived from the original on 13 August 2016. Retrieved 2016-08-11.
- ^ "Secret of Success". Naenara. Foreign Languages Publishing House. 19 July 2017. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
- ^ "KIM Song I". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 2016-08-06.
- ^ Marshall, Ian (June 10, 2012). "Hampus Nordberg and Kim Song I Awarded Highest Swedish Qualifications". ITTF. Archived from the original on August 25, 2016.
- ^ "Olympic Ranking - July 2016". ITTF.
- ^ Marshall, Ian (10 August 2016). ""Ding Ning reaches final, Kim Song I provides stern test"". ITTF.
- North Korean female table tennis players
- Table tennis players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic table tennis players for North Korea
- 1994 births
- Living people
- Asian Games medalists in table tennis
- Table tennis players at the 2014 Asian Games
- Table tennis players at the 2018 Asian Games
- Asian Games silver medalists for North Korea
- Asian Games bronze medalists for North Korea
- Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games
- Table tennis players at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for North Korea
- Olympic medalists in table tennis
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Summer World University Games medalists in table tennis
- FISU World University Games bronze medalists for North Korea
- Medalists at the 2017 Summer Universiade
- 21st-century North Korean women
- 21st-century North Korean people