Kim Song-i
North Korean table tennis player
Kim Song-i (Korean pronunciation: [kim.soŋ.i]; born 10 August 1994) is a North Korean table tennis player. As of November 2017, she is ranked 23rd in the world based on ITTF rankings.
Kim plays a highly defensive style with plenty of slice, occasionally injecting pace with top spin strokes from the forehand. She represents the Amrokkang Sports Club.
She won the bronze medal for North Korea at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Early life
Kim was born on 10 August 1994 to a working-class family in Phyongchon District, Pyongyang. She went to the Ponghak Primary School and later the Sosong District Juvenile Sports School.
Career
In 2012, at Helsingborg, she won the Women's Singles title at the Swedish Open.
2016 Rio Olympics
In the third round, she surprisingly beat Japan's Kasumi Ishikawa, ranked number six in the world. In the quarter-finals, she went on to beat Singaporean Yu Mengyu, ranked 13th, with a score of 4-2 before losing to second-ranked Ding Ning in the semifinals with a score of 4–1.
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