Park Ji-hyun (born August 4, 1979) is a South Korean curler. She was the

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on the South Korean National Women's Curling Team for the 2001–02 curling season.

Career

Park was the lead on Team Kim Mi-yeon which won the

Pacific Curling Championships The Pacific-Asia Curling Championships (formerly the Pacific Curling Championships) were an annual curling tournament, held every year in November or December. The event served as a qualified for the World Curling Championships. The Pacific-Asia ...

gold medal in 2001, earning the Korean team their first ever appearance at the

World Curling Championships The World Curling Championships are the annual world championships for curling, organized by the World Curling Federation and contested by national championship teams. There are men's, women's and Doubles curling, mixed doubles championships, as ...

. At the 2002 Worlds, the team finished last and without a single win, going 0–9. Park would only win the Pacific Championship one time, with silver medals in 2000, 2002 and 2003 and bronze medals in 2004 and 2007. Park Ji-hyun would

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the South Korean team in 2007, finishing with a 4–4 round robin record and losing the World Championship berth game to

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Moe Meguro is a Japanese curler. She was born November 20, 1984, in Kushiro, Hokkaido, but grew up in Minamifurano, Hokkaido. Career Moe Meguro won her first medal at the international level at the 2004 Pacific Curling Championships winning the gold m ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Park, Ji-hyun 1979 births Living people South Korean female curlers Asian Games medalists in curling Curlers at the 2003 Asian Winter Games Medalists at the 2003 Asian Winter Games Asian Games silver medalists for South Korea