Kim Dong-hyun (; born 12 November 1987) is a South Korean

bobsled Bobsleigh or bobsled is a winter sport in which teams of 2 to 4 athletes make timed speed runs down narrow, twisting, banked, iced tracks in a gravity-powered sleigh. International bobsleigh competitions are governed by the International Bobs ...

der who has competed since 2008. At the

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, he finished 19th in the four-man event.

Career

Kim finished 30th in the two-man event at the

FIBT World Championships 2009 The FIBT World Championships 2009, officially known as the Bauhaus FIBT Bobsleigh & Skeleton World Championships, February 20 to March 1, 2009, at the bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track in Lake Placid, New York, for the ninth time, doing so prev ...

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. His best World Cup finish was 26th in the two-man event at

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in 2009. At the

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, the South Korean four-man team of

Seo Young-woo Seo Young-woo (, born 27 October 1991) is a South Korean bobsledder who competes as the brakeman for the two-man bobsled piloted by Won Yun-jong as well as a push crewman for the four-man bobsled also piloted by Won Yun-jong. Career Seo previou ...

Won Yun-jong Won Yun-jong (born 17 June 1985) is a South Korean Bobsleigh, bobsledder. Won competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics for South Korea. He teamed with brakeman Seo Young-woo in the South Korea-1 sled in the Bobsleigh at the 2014 Winter Olympics – ...

, Jun Jung-lin, and Kim Dong-hyun won a surprising silver medal in the four-man event, tying with a German team led by

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. With the silver medal, South Korea became the first Asian nation to claim an Olympic medal in a bobsleigh event.

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* * 1987 births Living people Bobsledders at the 2010 Winter Olympics Bobsledders at the 2014 Winter Olympics Bobsledders at the 2018 Winter Olympics Bobsledders at the 2022 Winter Olympics Olympic bobsledders for South Korea South Korean male bobsledders Sportspeople from Seoul Olympic medalists in bobsleigh Olympic silver medalists for South Korea Medalists at the 2018 Winter Olympics 21st-century South Korean sportsmen {{SouthKorea-bobsleigh-bio-stub