Kim Gwong-min
| Date of birth | 2 April 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 82 kg (181 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kim Gwong-min (born 2 April 1988) is a South Korean rugby player.[1] He competed for South Korea at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Rugby career
[edit]Kim represented South Korea's national under-20 rugby union team at the 2008 IRB Junior World Rugby Trophy in Chile.[2] In 2011, he was named MVP of the Shanghai Sevens, he scored the winning try and completed a hat-trick in the tournament final of the Asia Rugby Sevens Series.[3]
He competed for South Korea in the men's sevens tournament at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.[4][5]
He captained the South Korean fifteens side at the 2022 Asia Rugby Championship.[6][7] Later in September, he represented the sevens side at the World Cup in Cape Town, South Africa.[8][9]
References
[edit]- ^ "Kim Gwong-min". Olympedia. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
- ^ "Korea target first win over Jamaica". www.world.rugby. 22 April 2008. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Korea fight back to win Shanghai Sevens". www.world.rugby. 28 August 2011. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Rugby Sevens - Australia vs Republic of Korea - Pool A Results". Tokyo 2020. Archived from the original on 30 August 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
- ^ "Tokyo Olympics: Men's Sevens Preview". Americas Rugby News. 25 July 2021. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Korea through to next stage of Rugby World Cup 2023 qualification". Women's and Men's Rugby World Cup. 6 June 2022. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Korea v Malaysia 55 – 10 in the ARMC 2022 semi-final". Asia Rugby. 6 June 2022. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "Korea Men's Sevens Squad Confirmed for Rugby World Cup Sevens 2022". RugbyAsia247. 5 September 2022. Retrieved 17 September 2022.
- ^ Collins, Amanga (8 September 2022). "Rugby World Cup Sevens 2022 Men's squads". scrummage.co.ke. Retrieved 2 April 2025.
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- 1988 births
- Living people
- Male rugby sevens players
- Olympic rugby sevens players for South Korea
- South Korea international rugby sevens players
- Rugby sevens players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Asian Games bronze medalists in rugby sevens
- Rugby sevens players at the 2014 Asian Games
- Rugby sevens players at the 2018 Asian Games
- Asian Games bronze medalists for South Korea
- Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games
- South Korean rugby union players
- South Korea international rugby union players
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