Kim So-hee (speed skater)

Kim So-Hee (Hangul: 김소희, Hanja: 金昭希) (born September 16, 1976 in Daegu) is a retired female South Korean short track speed skater who competed in the 1992 Winter Olympics and in the 1994 Winter Olympics. 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.

This is a Korean name; the family name is Kim.
Kim So-hee
Medal record
Women's short track speed skating
Representing  South Korea
Olympic Games
1994 Lillehammer 3000m relay
1994 Lillehammer 1000m
World Championships
1992 Denver Overall
1994 Guildford Overall
Asian Winter Games
1990 Sapporo 1500 m
1990 Sapporo 3000 m relay
1996 Harbin 3000 m relay

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.

  • Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Kim So-hee". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17.


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