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Full name | Kim Cheong-yong | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | South Korea | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Uiwang, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea | 1 January 1997|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 67 kg (148 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Shooting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | 10 m air pistol (AP60) 50 m pistol (FP) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Heung-deok High School[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coached by | Kim Seun-il[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Kim Cheong-yong (Korean: 김 청용; born January 1, 1997, in Uiwang, Gyeonggi-do) is a South Korean sport shooter.[1] He won a silver medal in boys' 10 m air pistol shooting at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China, and eventually claimed a gold medal to a thunderous applause from the home crowd when South Korea hosted the Asian Games a month later.[2] Kim is a member of the shooting club at Heung-deok High School in Uiwang under his personal coach Kim Seun-il.[1][3]
Kim first came to a worldwide attention as a 17-year-old at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China, where he fired a score of 201.2 to take the silver medal in the boys' 10 m air pistol, falling short to Ukraine's Pavlo Korostylov by a stalwart 3.6-point margin.[2][4][5]
When his nation South Korea hosted the Asian Games one month later, Kim beat a star-studded field in the final, including his personal hero and the reigning World and Olympic champion Jin Jong-oh, to claim the gold medal on his senior debut in air pistol shooting, finishing with an astonishing record of 201.2.[3][6][7]