Kim Su-jin (curler)
| Kim Su-jin | |
|---|---|
| Born | March 25, 1999[1] |
| Team | |
| Curling club | , Chuncheon, KOR |
| Skip | Kim Min-ji |
| Third | Kim Hye-rin |
| Second | Ha Seung-youn |
| Lead | Kim Su-jin |
| Alternate | Yang Tae-i |
| Mixed doubles partner | |
| Career | |
| Member Association |  South Korea |
| World Championship appearances | 1 (2019) |
| Pacific-Asia Championship appearances | 1 (2018) |
| Other appearances | World Junior Curling Championships: 4 (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020) |
Kim Su-jin (born March 25, 1999) is a South Korean curler from Uijeongbu.[3] She currently plays lead for Team Kim Min-ji. She is a 2018 Pacific-Asia Curling champion.
Career[]
Kim joined the Kim Min-ji rink in 2006. In her first World Curling Tour event as a member of the team, they won the 2016 Hub International Crown of Curling.
The Kim team represented Korea at the 2017 World Junior Curling Championships, where they posted a 5–4 round robin record, tied with Switzerland for fourth. They would beat the Swiss in a tiebreaker, before losing two straight games against Canada to finish in fourth place. This team represented Korea at the 2018 World Junior Curling Championships, where they finished with a 4–5 record, missing the playoffs.
The team began the 2018–19 season by winning the Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic. They then went on to win gold at the 2018 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships, earning South Korea a berth at the 2019 World Women's Curling Championship.
She and her team participated in all four legs of the 2018–19 Curling World Cup. In the First Leg, they finished with a 1–5 record, placing seventh out of eight teams. At the Second Leg, they made it all the way to the final falling just short to Japan's Satsuki Fujisawa 7–6. The team improved on this performance by winning the Third Leg against Sweden's Anna Hasselborg rink. In the Grand Final, the team finished with a 2–4 record.
Her team, still junior eligible represented Korea at the 2019 World Junior Curling Championships. They finished the round robin with a 6–3 record, which was tied with three other teams for the second best record. However, they missed the playoffs due to tiebreaker rules. The following month, the team represented Korea at the 2019 Winter Universiade. This time their 6–3 record was enough to make the playoffs, where they made it all the way to the final before losing to Sweden. Later that month, the team had yet another international event to play in, the 2019 World Championship. The team was even better on this stage, finishing the round robin with a 9–3 record, in second place. In the playoffs, they lost to Switzerland's Silvana Tirinzoni rink in the semifinal, but rebounded to win the bronze medal game against Seina Nakajima of Japan. It was the first ever medal won by Korea at the Women's World Championship. The team ended their season with a 1–3 record at the 2019 Champions Cup Grand Slam of Curling event.
Team Kim lost the final of the 2019 Korean Women's Curling Championship the following season in June 2019 to the Gim Un-chi rink after Kim missed her last shot and gave up a steal of two in the tenth end.[4] This meant they would not be the national women's team for the season. The team won the Tour Challenge Tier 2 event after a strong 9–2 win over Jestyn Murphy. This qualified them for the Canadian Open in Yorkton, Saskatchewan. There, they defeated higher ranked teams such as three time Scotties champion Rachel Homan, 2013 world champion Eve Muirhead and 2020 Scotties champion Kerri Einarson. They made it all the way to the final before losing to the Anna Hasselborg rink in an extra end. They also made it all the way to the final of the 2020 World Junior Curling Championships, where they lost to Canada's Mackenzie Zacharias. On the World Curling Tour, they won the Boundary Ford Curling Classic, finished fourth at the inaugural WCT Uiseong International Curling Cup, made the quarterfinals at the Red Deer Curling Classic and missed the playoffs at the 2019 Curlers Corner Autumn Gold Curling Classic and the 2019 Canad Inns Women's Classic.
The Kim rink began the abbreviated 2020–21 season at the 2020 Korean National Women's Curling Championship. There, they qualified for the playoffs with a 5–1 record before losing both of their playoff games to the Kim Eun-jung and Gim Un-chi rinks, settling for third.[5] Later that season, they competed in the only two Grand Slam events of the season, which were played in a "curling bubble" in Calgary, Alberta, with no spectators, to avoid the spread of the coronavirus.[6] The team missed the playoffs at both the 2021 Champions Cup and the 2021 Players' Championship.
References[]
- ^ "대한컬링경기연맹".
- ^ "Sujin Kim | Players". Curling World Cup. Retrieved 2018-12-09.
- ^ "SUJIN KIM". Grand Slam of Curling. Retrieved November 5, 2021.
- ^ 2019 Korean Women's Curling Finals：Kim Minji vs Gim Unchi. YouTube. Archived from the original on 2021-12-11.
- ^ "2020 Korean National Women's Curling Championship – Playoffs". CurlingZone. Retrieved June 8, 2021.
- ^ Jonathan Brazeau (April 12, 2021). "Humpty's Champions Cup start moved to Thursday". Grand Slam of Curling. Retrieved June 8, 2021.
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- Living people
- South Korean female curlers
- Pacific-Asian curling champions
- 1999 births
- Sportspeople from Gyeonggi Province
- Universiade medalists in curling
- Universiade silver medalists for South Korea
- Competitors at the 2019 Winter Universiade
- People from Uijeongbu