Kim Kyeong-ae, nicknamed "Steak" (born January 21, 1994) is a South Korean
curler. She currently plays
third
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on Team
Kim Eun-jung. The Kim team represented South Korea at the
2018 Winter Olympics
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, 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 ...
, where they won a silver medal.
Career
Juniors
Kim played in five straight
Pacific-Asia Junior Curling Championships The Pacific-Asia Junior Curling Championships (formerly known as the Pacific Junior Curling Championships) was an annual curling bonspiel held in the World Curling Federation's Pacific zone. The championships featured curlers under the age of 21 co ...
for South Korea from 2010 to 2014. She played
third
Third or 3rd may refer to:
Numbers
* 3rd, the ordinal form of the cardinal number 3
* , a fraction of one third
* Second#Sexagesimal divisions of calendar time and day, 1⁄60 of a ''second'', or 1⁄3600 of a ''minute''
Places
* 3rd Street (d ...
for the team which was skipped by
Kim Eun-jung from 2010 to 2012 and
skip
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ped the team in 2013 and 2014. She won silver medals at the event from 2010 to 2012 inclusive. In her first year as a skip, she led South Korea to a bronze medal, and in 2014 she won the event, picking up a gold medal for the team.
Kim skipped the South Korean team at the
2014 World Junior Curling Championships
The 2014 World Junior Curling Championships were held from February 26 to March 5 at the Waldhaus Arena in Flims, Switzerland.
Men
Teams
The teams are listed as follows:
Round-robin standings
''Final Round Robin Standings''
Round-robin resu ...
. She led her team of
Kim Seon-yeong,
Kim Ji-hyeon and
Oh Eun-jin to a 7-2 round robin record, tied with Canada for first place. After losing the 1 vs. 2 game to Canada (skipped by
Kelsey Rocque
Kelsey Elizabeth Rocque (born March 25, 1994) is a Canadian curler residing in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta. She is a two-time World Junior champion skip.
Career
In 2013, Rocque played for her first University Championship, at the 2013 CIS/CCA C ...
), Kim led her team to a semifinal win against Sweden before once again losing to Canada in a rematch in the gold medal final.
Kim has represented South Korea's
Gyeongbuk Science College in two
Winter Universiade
The Universiade is an international multi-sport event, organized for university athletes by the International University Sports Federation (FISU). The name is a portmanteau of the words "University" and "Olympiad".
The Universiade is referred t ...
s, playing third for Kim Eun-jung at both the
2015
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and
2017 Winter Universiade
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s, finishing 5th and 6th respectively.
Women's
While still a junior curler, Kim first represented her country at the women's level at the
2012 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships
The 2012 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships were held from November 18 to 25 at the Naseby Curling Club in Naseby, New Zealand. The championships acted as the Pacific zone qualifiers for the World Curling Championships. The top two women's berths ...
, playing third for Kim Eun-jung, who she also played with in juniors. There, the team won a bronze medal. The team returned to the event
in 2014, where they won a bronze medal. This would've qualified them for the 2015 World Championships, but the Worlds were held in Japan, which qualified over South Korea as hosts. The team would, however, win a gold medal at the
2016 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships
The 2016 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships were held from November 5 to 12 at the Gyeongbuk Uiseong Curling Training Center in Uiseong-eup, Uiseong County, South Korea. The top two teams from the men's tournament will qualify for the 2017 Ford W ...
, earning them the right to play in the
2017 World Women's Curling Championship
The 2017 World Women's Curling Championship (branded as CPT World Women's Curling Championship 2017 for sponsorship reasons) was a curling event held between March 18–26 at the Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing, China. The winning Rachel Homan ...
in China, where they finished sixth. Also, in 2017, the team won a silver medal at the
2017 Asian Winter Games
The 2017 Asian Winter Games ( ja, 2017アジア冬季競技大会, 2017 Ajia tōkikyōgitaikai) was the 8th edition of the Asian Winter Games. They were hosted in Sapporo and Obihiro in Hokkaido, Japan. These Games were originally scheduled for 2 ...
.
Team Kim won the 2017 South Korean championship, qualifying the team to represent South Korea on home ice at 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 ...
. The team began the
2017-18 curling season by winning the
2017 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships
The 2017 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships was held 2–8 November in Erina, New South Wales, Australia. The top three teams from the men's and women's tournaments qualified for the 2018 World Men's Curling Championship and 2018 Ford World Wome ...
. As the host nation, the team received celebrity status in Korea as the "garlic girls", as their hometown of
Uiseong
Uiseong County (''Uiseong-gun'') is a county in Gyeongsangbuk-do Province, South Korea. Located near the center of the province, it is bounded by Andong on the north, Cheongsong on the east, Gunwi County on the south, and Sangju and Yecheon on t ...
is known for its garlic production. The team had an impressive run, making it to the gold medal final, where they lost to Sweden's
Anna Hasselborg
Anna Ellinor Hasselborg (born 5 May 1989) is a Swedish curler who is the 2018 Olympic Champion in women's curling, and a former World Junior Champion skip. In November 2019, she became the first curler in history to reign as the simultaneous ho ...
rink. The following month, the team played in the
2018 Ford World Women's Curling Championship
The 2018 World Women's Curling Championship (branded as the 2018 Ford World Women's Curling Championship for sponsorship reasons) was held from March 17–25 at the North Bay Memorial Gardens in North Bay, Ontario, Canada. The format of the tou ...
, where they lost in the quarterfinals.
The garlic girls did not play much in the 2018–19 season amidst a coaching scandal, which involved the country's sport federation vice president verbally abusing the team. Kim skipped the team in the final event of the season, the
2019 WCT Arctic Cup
The 2019 WCT Arctic Cup was held May 23 to 26 at the Taimyr Ice Arena in Dudinka, Russia. It was the final event of the 2018–19 curling season. In the final, Scottish Eve Muirhead, Team Muirhead defeated Russian Alina Kovaleva, Team Kovaleva 5 ...
because her skip
Kim Eun-jung was preparing to give birth. The team finished with a 1–3 record, missing the playoffs.
Team Kim returned to the
World Curling Tour
The World Curling Tour (WCT) is a group of curling bonspiels featuring the best male, female, and mixed doubles curlers in the world.
History
The World Curling Tour was founded by former World Champion Ed Lukowich, with later assistance from Jo ...
for the
2019–20 season but with Kyeong-ae skipping. They qualified for the playoffs at the
2019 Cameron's Brewing Oakville Fall Classic, the 2019
Stu Sells Oakville Tankard
The Stu Sells Oakville Tankard (also known as the OCT Championships) is an annual bonspiel on the men's and women's Ontario Curling Tour. Except for in 2020, the event has been held at the Oakville Curling Club in Oakville, Ontario. The event w ...
and finished runner-up at the inaugural
WCT Uiseong International Curling Cup. Kim Eun-jung rejoined the team at the
2019 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic
The 2019 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic was held from October 11 to 14 at the Calgary Curling Club in Calgary, Alberta as part of the World Curling Tour. The event was held in a triple-knockout format with a purse of $44,000.
In the f ...
, where she would throw second stones. They had a quarterfinal finish. Team Kim also had a quarterfinal finish the following week at the
2019 Canad Inns Women's Classic
The 2019 Canad Inns Women's Classic was held from October 17 to 20 at the Portage Curling Club in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba as part of the World Curling Tour. The event was held in a triple-knockout format with a purse of $60,000.
In the fina ...
, where Kim Eun-jung returned to throwing skip stones. They made it to the final of the
2019 Changan Ford International Curling Elite
The 2019 Changan Ford International Curling Elite was held from December 5 to 10 in Xining, Qinghai, China. The total purse for the event was CNY 225,000.
In the men's final, Team Ruohonen from the United States defeated Team van Dorp from th ...
and finished fourth at the
2019 China Open in December 2019. In the new year, they had a quarterfinal finish at the
International Bernese Ladies Cup
The International Bernese Ladies Cup (Swiss German: ''Internationaler Berner Damen Cup'') is an annual bonspiel which was started in 1968 and became an event on the women's World Curling Tour in 2007. It is held every January at the Curlingbahn A ...
, and they won the
Glynhill Ladies International
The Glynhill Ladies International (formerly the Braehead Ladies International) is an annual bonspiel, or curling tournament, that takes place at the Braehead Curling Rink in Renfrew, Scotland, just outside Glasgow. The tournament, sponsored b ...
. It would be the team's last event of the season as both the
Players' Championship
The Players' Championship is one of the final events on the World Curling Tour (WCT) and is a part of the Grand Slam of Curling.
From 2016 to 2019, it was the penultimate slam of the curling season, and the last of the four "majors". The even ...
and the
Champions Cup Grand Slam events were cancelled due to the
COVID-19 pandemic
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.
The Kim rink began the abbreviated
2020–21 season by winning their national championship at the
2020 Korean Curling Championships
The 2020 Korean Curling Championships (branded as the 2020 KB Financial Korean Curling Championships), Korea's national curling championships, were held from November 19 to 24 at the Gangneung Curling Centre in Gangneung, South Korea. The winnin ...
. After finishing 6–0 through the round robin, her team defeated
Kim Min-ji 6–5 in the 1 vs. 2 page playoff game and won 7–5 over
Gim Un-chi
Gim Eun-ji also known as Gim Un-chi (born January 23, 1990) is a Korean curler from Gyeonggi-do. She currently skips the Gyeonggi Province curling team.
Career
Gim played as lead in her first world championship at the 2011 Capital One World ...
in the championship final. Their win qualified them to represent Korea at the
2021 World Women's Curling Championship
The 2021 World Women's Curling Championship (branded as 2021 LGT World Women's Curling Championship for sponsorship reasons) was held 30 April to 9 May at the Markin MacPhail Centre at Canada Olympic Park in Calgary, Alberta.
The event was orig ...
. The team had a slow start, losing their first four games before going 7–2 in their final nine games. Their 7–6 record placed them seventh after the round robin, not enough to qualify for the playoffs and the
2022 Winter Olympics
The 2022 Winter Olympics (2022年冬季奥林匹克运动会), officially called the XXIV Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Beijing 2022 (2022), was an international winter multi-sport event held from 4 to 20 February 2022 in Beij ...
. The team also changed home clubs during the season, switching from the
Uiseong Curling Club to the
Gangneung Curling Centre
Gangneung Gymnasium (강릉실내종합체육관) is a multi-purpose indoor arena, located in the coastal city of Gangneung, South Korea. It was opened in 1998 for Ice hockey at the 1999 Asian Winter Games, ice hockey at the 1999 Asian Winter Games ...
after their contract expired with the Gyeongsangbukdo Sports Council.
Team Kim began the
2021–22 season at the
2021 Korean Curling Championships
The 2021 Korean Curling Championships (branded as the 2021 KB Financial Korean Curling Championships), Korea's national curling championships, were held from June 23 to July 3 at the Gangneung Curling Centre in Gangneung, South Korea. The winning ...
in June, which also doubled as the selection event for the
2022 Winter Olympics
The 2022 Winter Olympics (2022年冬季奥林匹克运动会), officially called the XXIV Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Beijing 2022 (2022), was an international winter multi-sport event held from 4 to 20 February 2022 in Beij ...
in
Beijing
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,
China
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. Through the event, the team posted a strong 11–1 record, once again securing the national title. The team also won their next event, the
2021 Alberta Curling Series: Saville Shoot-Out in September, after an undefeated record. Elsewhere on tour, the team reached the semifinals of both the
2021 Sherwood Park Women's Curling Classic and the
2021 Masters Grand Slam event. In international play, Team Kim represented South Korea at the
2021 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships
The 2021 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships was held from November 7 to 13 at the Almaty Arena in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The top men's team and the top two women's teams qualified for the 2022 World Men's Curling Championship and 2022 World Women's C ...
. The team finished the round robin with a 5–1 record, tied with Japan. Japan had a better draw shot challenge record, forcing Korea into a semifinal match against Kazakhstan. Team Kim beat Kazakhstan but lost to Japan in the gold medal game, settling for silver. Because they had failed to qualify for the Olympics at the 2021 World Championship, the team then had to play in the
Olympic Qualification Event to qualify South Korea for the
2022 Winter Olympics
The 2022 Winter Olympics (2022年冬季奥林匹克运动会), officially called the XXIV Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Beijing 2022 (2022), was an international winter multi-sport event held from 4 to 20 February 2022 in Beij ...
. The team posted a 6–2 record through the round robin, putting them into the playoffs. There, they lost to Japan in their first game but rebounded to beat Latvia in their second, qualifying Korea for the Winter Games.
At the Olympics, the team could not replicate their success from PyeongChang 2018 and finished the event in eighth with a 4–5 record. The team had much more success at the
2022 World Women's Curling Championship
The 2022 World Women's Curling Championship (branded as the 2022 BKT Tires & OK Tire World Women's Curling Championship for sponsorship reasons) was held from March 19 to 27 at the CN Centre in Prince George, British Columbia, Canada. Prince ...
. They finished the round robin with a 9–3 record, in second place. This gave them a bye to the semifinals, where they beat the host Canadian team skipped by
Kerri Einarson
Kerri Einarson (; born October 3, 1987 as Kerri Flett) is a Canadian Métis curler from Camp Morton, Manitoba, in the Rural Municipality of Gimli. Einarson is the three-time reigning women's national champion in curling, skipping her team to vic ...
. This put them into the gold medal game where they played Switzerland, skipped by
Silvana Tirinzoni
Silvana Petra Tirinzoni (born 25 June 1979) is a Swiss curler from Zurich. She is currently the reigning women's world champion skip having won the last three championships, in 2019, 2021 and . Tirinzoni also represented Switzerland at the 2022 ...
. The team was not as successful against the Swiss, losing to them 7–6, settling for the silver medal, Korea's best-ever finish at the Worlds. A few weeks later, the team wrapped up their season at the
2022 Champions Cup, where they lost in a tiebreaker to Einarson.
In June 2022, at the
2022 Korean Curling Championships
The 2022 Korean Curling Championships (branded as the 2022 KB Financial Korean Curling Championships), Korea's national curling championships, were held from June 11 to 17 at the Jincheon National Training Centre in Jincheon, South Korea. The w ...
, Team Kim lost their spot as the national team. After a 5–1 record, the team lost both the semifinal and bronze medal game to Chuncheon City Hall and Jeonbuk Province respectively. It was their first time not reaching the podium in over a decade. They began their tour season at the
2022 Stu Sells Toronto Tankard
The 2022 Stu Sells Toronto Tankard was held from September 29 to October 2 at the High Park Club in Toronto, Ontario. The event was held in a triple knockout format with a purse of $40,000 on the men's side and $20,000 on the women's side. It was ...
where they lost in the semifinals to Team Tirinzoni. The next week, they played in the first Slam of the season, the
2022 National
The 2022 BOOST National was held from October 4 to 9 at the North Bay Memorial Gardens in North Bay, Ontario. It was the first Grand Slam event of the 2022–23 curling season.
Qualification
The top 16 ranked men's and women's teams on the Wo ...
, where they went 1–3. After failing to qualify again at the
2022 Western Showdown
The 2022 Western Showdown was held from October 13 to 31 at the Swift Current Curling Club in Swift Current, Saskatchewan. The women's event, sponsored by RBC Dominion Securities, ran from October 13 to 16 and the men's event, sponsored by IG ...
, the team found success at the
2022 Tour Challenge
The 2022 HearingLife Tour Challenge was held from October 18 to 23 at the Coca-Cola Centre in Grande Prairie, Alberta. It was the second Grand Slam event of the 2022–23 curling season.
During the draw to the button before the semifinal games, ...
as they qualified for the playoffs as the second seeds. They then lost to
Gim Eun-ji
Gim Eun-ji also known as Gim Un-chi (born January 23, 1990) is a Korean curler from Gyeonggi-do. She currently skips the Gyeonggi Province curling team.
Career
Gim played as lead in her first world championship at the 2011 Capital One World ...
in the quarterfinals. They also lost to Team Gim in the quarterfinals of their next event, the
Stu Sells Brantford Nissan Classic
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after previously being undefeated. At the
2022 Masters, the team again missed the playoffs with a 1–3 record. They ended their season early at the
2022 Karuizawa International Curling Championships
The 2022 Karuizawa International Curling Championships were held from December 16 to 18 at the Karuizawa Ice Park in Karuizawa, Nagano, Japan. The total purse for the event was ¥ 1,500,000 on both the men's and women's sides. It was the first ...
where they qualified for the playoffs with a 2–1 record. After beating
Sayaka Yoshimura
is a Japanese curler from Sapporo, Hokkaido. She is the skip of the FORTIUS curling team, which won the Japan Curling Championships in both 2015 and 2021. At the international level, she has represented Japan twice at the World Women's Curling ...
7–5 in the semifinal, they won 5–4 over Kerri Einarson to secure the event title.
Personal life
Her older sister
Kim Yeong-mi
Kim Yeong-mi, nicknamed "Pancake" (born March 10, 1991) is a South Korean curler. She was the lead, but now is the alternate on Team Kim Eun-jung. The Kim team represented South Korea at the 2018 Winter Olympics, where they won a silver meda ...
is the alternate on her team.
Grand Slam record
Former events
References
External links
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1994 births
Living people
South Korean female curlers
Asian Games medalists in curling
Curlers at the 2017 Asian Winter Games
Medalists at the 2017 Asian Winter Games
Asian Games silver medalists for South Korea
Curlers at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Olympic curlers for South Korea
Olympic silver medalists for South Korea
Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Olympic medalists in curling
People from Uiseong County
Pacific-Asian curling champions
Curlers at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Sportspeople from North Gyeongsang Province
21st-century South Korean women
Competitors at the 2017 Winter Universiade