Jang Hye-ji (born August 7, 1997) is a South Korean curler. She competed in the

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. She also represented Korea at three

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Career

She was born in 1997 in

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, and went to the Uiseong Girls' High School, a famous curling high school. Since then, she has been on the Korean National Mixed Doubles Team four times. In February 2016, she formed Korea's first

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national team together with Lee Ki-jeong. At the

2016 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship The 2016 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held from April 16 to 23 at the Karlstad Curling Arena in Karlstad, Sweden. The event was held in conjunction with the 2016 World Senior Curling Championships. Teams The teams are listed as ...

, the team made it to the round of 16, where they lost. At the

2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship The 2017 World Mixed Doubles Curling Championship was held from April 22 to 29 at the Lethbridge Curling Club in Lethbridge, Canada. The event was held in conjunction with the 2017 World Senior Curling Championships. Teams Round-robin standing ...

, they finished sixth overall. Jang played in the mixed doubles tournament at the

with Lee. She was youngest curler in the tournament. On February 8, she played the Finnish team in the first game of the preliminary round and defeated them 9–4, with

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conceding after 7 ends. In the second game, they played the Chinese team and after being down 6-1 after four ends, rallied to tie the game, only to lose in an extra end. On February 9, in their third game, they lost 3–8 to

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, but they beat the US 9–1 in their fourth game. On February 10, in their fifth game, they lost to the Olympic Athletes from Russia, and lost their sixth match against

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. In their seventh and final game, they 7–3 to

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. They would finish the event in fifth place.

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* 1997 births Living people Curlers at the 2018 Winter Olympics South Korean female curlers Olympic curlers for South Korea Curlers from North Gyeongsang Province 21st-century South Korean sportswomen {{SouthKorea-bio-stub