Kim Min-Jung (, born March 20, 1985, in

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) is a South Korean

short track speed skater Short-track speed skating is a form of competitive ice skating, ice speed skating. In competitions, multiple skaters (typically between four and six) skate on an oval ice track with a length of . The rink itself is long by wide, which is the s ...

. Kim won her first senior World Championship individual gold medal in the women's 1500 meter at the 2009 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships held in

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, edging out future 1500 meter Olympic champion Zhou Yang by 0.503 seconds. In the

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, she competed only in the women's 3000 meter relay, combining with Lee Eun-Byul,

Park Seung-Hi Park Seung-hi (; born 28 March 1992) is a former South Korean short track and long track speed skater. She is the 2010 Overall World Champion. She won two gold medals and three bronze medals at 2010 Winter Olympics and 2014 Winter Olympics. H ...

and

Cho Ha-Ri Cho Ha-Ri (; born 29 July 1986) is a short track speed skater who competes for South Korea. She is the 2011 Overall World Champion. Career At the 2010 Winter Olympics, Cho finished 4th in the women's 1000 metres and 5th in the 1500 metres. ...

. The South Korean team finished first but was controversially disqualified due to contact between Kim and

Sun Linlin Sun Linlin (; born October 3, 1988, in Dandong) is a Chinese female short track speed skater. She competed at the 2010 Winter Olympics The 2010 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XXI Olympic Winter Games () and also known as Vancou ...

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Kim Min-Jung's biography on nbcolympics.com
{{DEFAULTSORT:Kim, Min-Jung 1985 births Living people South Korean female short-track speed skaters Olympic short-track speed skaters for South Korea Short-track speed skaters at the 2010 Winter Olympics Asian Games medalists in short-track speed skating Asian Games silver medalists for South Korea Short-track speed skaters at the 2007 Asian Winter Games Medalists at the 2007 Asian Winter Games Winter World University Games medalists in short-track speed skating World Short Track Speed Skating Championships medalists FISU World University Games gold medalists for South Korea FISU World University Games silver medalists for South Korea Competitors at the 2005 Winter Universiade Competitors at the 2011 Winter Universiade South Korean Buddhists 21st-century South Korean sportswomen

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