Kim Min-ji (curler)
Kim Min-ji (born August 16, 1999) is a South Korean curler. She is currently the skip of the South Korean Junior Women's Curling Team. She is a 2018 Pacific-Asia Curling champion.
Kim Min-ji 김민지 | |
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Born | [1] August 16, 1999 |
Team | |
Curling club | Chuncheon CC |
Skip | Kim Min-ji |
Third | Ha Seung-youn |
Second | Kim Hye-rin |
Lead | Kim Su-jin |
Alternate | Yang Tae-i |
Career | |
Member Association | ![]() |
World Championship appearances | 1 (2019) |
Pacific-Asia Championship appearances | 1 (2018) |
Other appearances | World Junior Curling Championships: 4 (2016, 2017, 2018, 2020) |
Personal information | |
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Nationality | South Korea |
Korean name | |
Hangul | |
Revised Romanization | Gim Minji |
McCune–Reischauer | Kim Minji |
Career
Kim skipped the South Korean junior team at the 2016 World Junior Curling Championships. She led her team of Kim Hye-rin, Yang Tae-i, Oh Su-yun and Lee Ji-young to a bronze medal finish. After finishing the round robin with a 7-2 record, the team lost to Hungary (skipped by Dorottya Palancsa) in the 3 vs. 4 page playoff game, but went on to beat the Hungarians in a re-match in the bronze medal game, after Hungary lost in the semi-final.
Kim began skipping a team on the World Curling Tour in 2016. She won her first tour event by claiming the 2016 Hub International Crown of Curling.
Kim, and teammates Kim Hye-rin, Yang and Kim Su-jin represented Korea at the 2017 World Junior Curling Championships. The team posted a 5-4 round robin record, tied with Switzerland for fourth. They would beat the Swiss in a tiebreaker, before losing two straight games against Canada to finish in 4th place. This same team represented Korea at the 2018 World Junior Curling Championships. There, Kim led the team to a 4-5 record, missing the playoffs.
Kim began the 2018-19 curling season by winning the Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic. Then she and her team won gold on 2018 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships, earning South Korea a berth into the 2019 World Women's Curling Championship.
She and her team have participated in the 2018–19 Curling World Cup: they played in the First Leg with 1-5 record, placed 7-8th out of playoffs. She returned to the 2018-19 Curling World Cup later that year and competed in the Second Leg. She and her team made it all the way to the final falling just short to Japan’s Satsuki Fujisawa 7-6. Her team improved on this performance by winning the Third Leg against Sweden's Anna Hasselborg rink. In the Grand Final, the team finished with a 2-4 record.
Her team, still junior eligible represented Korea at the 2019 World Junior Curling Championships. They finished the round robin with a 6-3 record, which was tied with three other teams for the second best record. However, they missed the playoffs due to tiebreaker rules. The following month, the team represented Korea at the 2019 Winter Universiade. This time their 6-3 record was enough to make the playoffs, where they made it all the way to the final before losing to Sweden. Later that month, the team had yet another international event to play in, the 2019 World Championship. The team was even better on this stage, finishing the round robin with a 9-3 record, in second place. In the playoffs, they lost to Switzerland's Silvana Tirinzoni rink in the semifinal, but rebounded to win the bronze medal game against Seina Nakajima of Japan. It was the first ever medal won by Korea at the Women's World Championship.[3] The team ended their season with a 1–3 record at the 2019 Champions Cup Grand Slam of Curling event.
Team Kim lost the final of the 2020 Korean Women's Curling Championship the following season in June 2019 to the Gim Un-chi rink after Kim missed her last shot and gave up a steal of two in the tenth end.[4] This meant they would not be the national women's team for the season. The team won the Tour Challenge Tier 2 event after a strong 9–2 win over Jestyn Murphy. This qualified them for the Canadian Open in Yorkton, Saskatchewan. There, they defeated higher ranked teams such as three time Scotties champion Rachel Homan, 2013 world champion Eve Muirhead and 2020 Scotties champion Kerri Einarson. They made it all the way to the final before losing to the Anna Hasselborg rink in an extra end. They also made it all the way to the final of the 2020 World Junior Curling Championships, where they lost to Canada's Mackenzie Zacharias.
Grand Slam record
Key | |
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C | Champion |
F | Lost in Final |
SF | Lost in Semifinal |
QF | Lost in Quarterfinals |
R16 | Lost in the round of 16 |
Q | Did not advance to playoffs |
T2 | Played in Tier 2 event |
DNP | Did not participate in event |
N/A | Not a Grand Slam event that season |
Event | 2018–19 | 2019–20 |
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Masters | DNP | DNP |
Tour Challenge | DNP | T2 |
National | DNP | DNP |
Canadian Open | DNP | F |
Players' | DNP | N/A |
Champions Cup | Q | N/A |
References
- http://www.koreacurling.co.kr/team/player/%EA%B5%AD%EA%B0%80%EB%8C%80%ED%91%9C
- https://www.curlingworldcup.com/players/minji-kim
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2019-03-24. Retrieved 2019-03-24.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHdXaedk7Dk
External links
- Kim Min-ji at World Curling Federation
- Kim Min-ji at CurlingZone