Kim So-hee (speed skater)
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Kim So-Hee (
Hangul The Korean alphabet, known as Hangul, . Hangul may also be written as following South Korea's standard Romanization. ( ) in South Korea and Chosŏn'gŭl in North Korea, is the modern official writing system for the Korean language. The let ...
: 김소희,
Hanja Hanja (Hangul: ; Hanja: , ), alternatively known as Hancha, are Chinese characters () used in the writing of Korean. Hanja was used as early as the Gojoseon period, the first ever Korean kingdom. (, ) refers to Sino-Korean vocabulary, wh ...
: 金昭希) (born September 16, 1976 in
Daegu Daegu (, , literally 'large hill', 대구광역시), formerly spelled Taegu and officially known as the Daegu Metropolitan City, is a city in South Korea. It is the third-largest urban agglomeration in South Korea after Seoul and Busan; it is ...
) is a retired female
South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...
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short track speed skater Short-track speed skating is a form of competitive ice speed skating. In competitions, multiple skaters (typically between four and six) skate on an oval ice track with a length of . The rink itself is long by wide, which is the same size as a ...
who competed in the
1992 Winter Olympics ) , nations = 64 , athletes = 1,801 (1313 men, 488 women) , events = 57 in 6 sports (12 disciplines) , opening = 8 February 1992 , closing = 23 February 1992 , opened_by = President François Mitterrand , cauldron ...
and in the
1994 Winter Olympics The 1994 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVII Olympic Winter Games ( no, De 17. olympiske vinterleker; nn, Dei 17. olympiske vinterleikane) and commonly known as Lillehammer '94, was an international winter multi-sport event held fro ...
. She won one Gold medal and one Bronze medal from the Olympics. She is the 1992 Overall World Champion for Short-track speed skating, and is the first Woman from South Korea to have become one. In 1992 she finished ninth in the 500 m competition. Two years later she was a member of the Korean relay team which won the gold medal in the 3000 m relay event. In the 1000 m discipline she won the bronze medal and in the 500 m competition she finished fifth. Kim retired soon after 1997 Winter Universiade, where she won Gold medal for 1000m Short-track speed skating.


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* 1976 births Living people South Korean female short track speed skaters Olympic short track speed skaters of South Korea Olympic gold medalists for South Korea Olympic bronze medalists for South Korea Olympic medalists in short track speed skating Short track speed skaters at the 1992 Winter Olympics Short track speed skaters at the 1994 Winter Olympics Medalists at the 1994 Winter Olympics Asian Games medalists in short track speed skating Short track speed skaters at the 1990 Asian Winter Games Short track speed skaters at the 1996 Asian Winter Games Sportspeople from Daegu {{SouthKorea-speed-skating-bio-stub Medalists at the 1990 Asian Winter Games Medalists at the 1996 Asian Winter Games Asian Games gold medalists for South Korea Asian Games silver medalists for South Korea Universiade medalists in short track speed skating Universiade gold medalists for South Korea Universiade bronze medalists for South Korea Competitors at the 1995 Winter Universiade Competitors at the 1997 Winter Universiade 21st-century South Korean women