Kim Cheong-yong
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| Full name | Kim Cheong-yong | ||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |
 South Korea | ||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
1 January 1997 Uiwang, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea | ||||||||||||||||||
| 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]
References
- 1 2 3 4 "ISSF Profile – Kim Cheong-yong". ISSF. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
- 1 2 "Pavlo Korostylov stays focused to secure shooting gold". Olympics. 18 August 2014. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
- 1 2 "Asian Games 2014: South Korean Schoolboy Outguns Olympic Champion". Agence France-Presse. NDTV. 21 September 2014. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
- ↑ Ceschi, Alessandro (18 August 2014). "Pistol favorite Korostylov smoothly wins in Nanjing". ISSF. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
- ↑ "Korostylov surpasses finals world record in 10m air pistol". Xinhua. China Internet Information Center. 18 August 2014. Retrieved 13 August 2015.
- ↑ "Teenage Korean Shooter Wins 2 Gold Medals at Asiad". The Chosun Ilbo. 22 September 2014. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
- ↑ Rutherford, Peter (21 September 2014). "Student becomes master as South Korean downs his hero". Reuters. Retrieved 13 August 2015.