Kim Min-jung (Korean: 김민정; born 26 March 1997) is a South Korean sport shooter.[1] She won a bronze medal in the girls' 10 m air pistol shooting at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China, and currently trains as a member of the shooting squad under KB Kookmin Bank.[2][3]
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| Nationality | South Korean | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 26 March 1997 Seoul, South Korea | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.61 m (5 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 53 kg (117 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | South Korea | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Shooting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | 10 m air pistol (AP40) 25 m pistol (SP) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | KB Kookmin Bank[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Son Sang-won | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| Hangul | 김민정 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Revised Romanization | Gim Minjeong | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| McCune–Reischauer | Kim Minjŏng | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kim stepped into the shooting scene, as a 17-year-old, at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China. There, she left the three-way duel with a startling 175.4 to take home the bronze medal in the girls' 10 m air pistol, falling short to Poland's Agata Nowak and Russia's Margarita Lomova by almost a single-point margin.[2]
At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Kim is slated to compete on her first senior South Korean team in the women's 10 m air pistol. Leading up to the Games, she collected a cumulative total of 1,923 points to earn one of the two available slots at the Olympic team trials for airgun in Naju.[3][4]
Kim won the silver medal in the women's 25 metre pistol event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.[5]
References edit
- ^ a b "ISSF Profile – Kim Min-jung". ISSF. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
- ^ a b "Last-minute 10.7 gives Nowak first gold of Nanjing". ISSF. 17 August 2014. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
- ^ a b "[Road to Rio](영상) 사격 김민정-김현준, 막내들의 이야기" [Road to Rio: Kim Min-jung and Kim Hyeon-jun, the stories of the youngest] (in Korean). SPOTV. 16 June 2016. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
- ^ "진종오, 리우올림픽 출전한다" [Jin Jong-oh will go to Rio Olympicslanguage=ko]. The Hankyoreh. 19 March 2016. Retrieved 23 June 2016.
- ^ "Kim Min-jung wins silver in women's 25m pistol shooting". The Korea Times. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
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