Viktor Kim (russian: Ви́ктор Гео́ргиевич Ким; born 27 July 1955) is a Kazakhstani curler and curling

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Curling career

On the international level, he played (almost always as skip) for Kazakhstan's national men's team at six Pacific Curling Championships (2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018), three European Curling Championships (2004, 2005, 2006) and one Asian Winter Games (2007). He also represented Kazakhstan at two

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(2016, 2017), four World Mixed Curling Championships (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018), and one

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).At 2003—2007 Kazakhstan was member of European Curling Federation He competed at three

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(2015, 2017, 2019). He was also the coach of various Kazakhstani national curling teams at many international curling tournaments. He is the "founder of Kazakhstani curling": after he saw the curling competition at the

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in Nagano, he founded the Kazakhstan Curling Association in 2003Керлинг. Виктор Ким: «У нас появилась возможность тренироваться и играть» - Vesti.kz
/ref> and he is the Secretary General of this Association. He is a member of the National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan. He started curling in 2003. His first coach was Russian curler and coach Alexander Kirikov. In a game against Canada at the

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, Kim was suspended from the match, and was later ejected from the tournament due to an incident involving an on-ice official.

Personal life

Kim is Korean, and he lives in Kazakhstan. His son Daniel Kim is also a curler and curling coach. Viktor and Daniel played on the same team many times, for example, at the

2015 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships The 2015 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships were held from November 7 to 14 at the Baluan Sholak Sports Palace in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The top two teams from the men's and women's tournaments qualified for the 2016 World Men's Curling Championship ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kim, Viktor 1955 births Living people Kazakhstani male curlers Kazakhstani people of Korean descent Curlers at the 2007 Asian Winter Games Curlers at the 2017 Asian Winter Games Kazakhstani curling coaches Place of birth missing (living people) Koryo-saram sportspeople