Kim Song-i facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Kim Song-i
Kim at the 2017 Summer Universiade
Personal information
Nationality	North Korea
Born	(1994-08-10) 10 August 1994 (age 29) Phyongchon District, Pyongyang
Playing style	Right-handed, Classic
Club	Amrokkang Sports Club
Height	1.61 m (5 ft 3 in)
Weight	55 kg (121 lb)
Medal record Representing  North Korea Olympic Games Bronze 2016 Rio de Janeiro Singles World Championships Bronze 2016 Kuala Lumpur Team Representing  Korea World Championships Bronze 2018 Halmstad Team

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.

See also

In Spanish: Kim Song-i para niños