Jang Hye-ji (born August 7, 1997) is a South Korean curler. She competed in the

2018 Winter Olympics , nations = 93 , athletes = 2,922 (1,680 men and 1,242 women) , events = 102 in 7 sports (15 disciplines) , opening = , closing = , opened_by = President Moon Jae-in , cauldron = Kim Yun-a , stadium = Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium , winte ...

. She is also a national representative of mixed double events with

Lee Ki-jeong Lee Ki-jeong (born 18 July 1995) is a South Korean curler. He competed in the 2018 Winter Olympics The 2018 Winter Olympics ( ko, 2018년 동계 올림픽, Icheon sip-pal nyeon Donggye Ollimpik), officially the XXIII Olympic Winter Games ( ...

, and is a member of the Gyeongbuk Athletic Association.

Career

She was born in 1997 in Uesung-gun,

Gyeongsangbuk-do North Gyeongsang Province ( ko, 경상북도, translit=Gyeongsangbuk-do, ) is a province in eastern South Korea. The province was formed in 1896 from the northern half of the former Gyeongsang province, and remained a province of Korea until the ...

, and went to the Uiseong Girls' High School, a famous curling high school. Since then she has been a national women's curling team. In February 2016, she formed Korea's first

mixed doubles Mixed doubles or mixed pairs is a form of mixed-sex sports that consists of teams of one man and one woman. This variation of competition is prominent in curling and racket sports, such as tennis, table tennis and badminton (where it is known as ...

national team together with

. At the

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, the team made it to the round of 16, where they lost. At the

2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship The 2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held from April 22 to 29 at the Lethbridge Curling Club in Lethbridge, Canada. The event was held in conjunction with the 2017 World Senior Curling Championships. Teams Round-robin standin ...

, they finished sixth overall. Jang played in the mixed doubles tournament at the

with Lee. She was youngest curler in the tournament. On February 8, she played the Finnish team in the first game of the preliminary round and defeated them 9–4, with

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conceding after 7 ends. In the second game, they played the Chinese team and after being down 6-1 after four ends, rallied to tie the game, only to lose in an extra end. On February 9, in their third game, they lost 3–8 to

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, but they beat the US 9–1 in their fourth game. On February 10, in their fifth game, they lost to the

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, and lost their sixth match against

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. In their seventh and final game, they 7–3 to

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. They would finish the event in fifth place.

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* 1997 births Living people Curlers at the 2018 Winter Olympics South Korean female curlers Olympic curlers for South Korea Sportspeople from North Gyeongsang Province 21st-century South Korean women {{SouthKorea-bio-stub