Rebeka Kim (

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: , born January 27, 1998) is a South Korean former competitive

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. With partner Kirill Minov, she is the 2016 South Korean national champion and placed sixth at the 2014 World Junior Championships. Earlier in her career, Kim competed in

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. She is the 2009 and 2010

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novice champion.

Personal life

Kim grew up in

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, Lithuania but has kept her citizenship as Korean. She speaks Russian, Korean, English and Lithuanian fluently. In 2010, she moved with her family to Moscow, Russia for her skating training.

Career

Single skating

Kim began figure skating at age 7 and initially competed in single skating. She won the novice ladies' title at the 2009 Lithuanian Championships. In 2009, the Korean media dubbed her "another

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". In February 2009, the KBS ''Global network Korean'' ran a documentary on Rebeka Kim.

Ice dancing

Junior level

In 2012, Kim began competing in

ice dancing Ice dance (sometimes referred to as ice dancing) is a discipline of figure skating that historically draws from ballroom dancing. It joined the World Figure Skating Championships in 1952, and became a Winter Olympic Games medal sport in 1976. A ...

with partner Kirill Minov, representing South Korea. They are coached by Irina Zhuk and

Alexander Svinin Alexander Vasilyevich Svinin (russian: Александр Васильевич Свинин; born 7 July 1958) is a Russian ice dancing coach and former competitor for the Soviet Union. With Olga Volozhinskaya, he is the 1983 European silver meda ...

. Kim/Minov were assigned to 2012–13 ISU Junior Grand Prix events in

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and

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. They missed the first event waiting for the

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to grant permission for Minov's change of country — he was cleared to represent South Korea on September 21, 2012. Kim/Minov finished 10th in their international debut in Croatia. They qualified for the free dance at the 2013 World Junior Championships in

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and finished 20th overall. In November 2013, Kim/Minov won the junior ice dance event at the 2013 NRW Trophy which made them the first Korean ice dance team to win an international event. They placed sixth at the 2014 World Junior Championships in

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Senior level

Kim/Minov started their first senior season at an ISU Challenger Series event, the

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, where they placed 7th. They received two

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assignments, the

2014 Rostelecom Cup The 2014 Rostelecom Cup was the fourth event of six in the 2014–15 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, a senior-level international invitational competition series. It was held at the Luzhniki Small Sports Arena in Moscow on November 14–16. Med ...

and 2014 Trophee Eric Bompard. They are the first Korean ice dancing team to participate in any ISU Grand Prix event. At the

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, Kim/Minov placed 3rd in total and they became the first Korean ice dancing team to medal at the ISU event.

Programs

With Minov

Competitive highlights

Ice dancing with Minov

Single skating

Detailed results

Post–2014

Pre–2014

* ISU Personal bests highlighted in bold

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kim, Rebeka 1998 births Living people Sportspeople from Vilnius South Korean female ice dancers South Korean female single skaters Lithuanian female single skaters Lithuanian people of Korean descent Lithuanian emigrants to South Korea