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Nationality | South Korean | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Seoul, South Korea | 26 March 1997||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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Korean name | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hangul | 김민정 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Revised Romanization | Gim Minjeong | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
McCune–Reischauer | Kim Minjŏng |
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]
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]