Kim Hyun-ki
Kim Hyun- Ki ( born February 9, 1983 in Kang Neung, South Korea) is a South Korean ski jumper. He jumps for the Ski Club High 1, working for the South Korean Profiskispringer all. He lives in Kangwondo.
Kim starts regularly in the World Cup. For the first time he succeeded in qualifying for a World Cup competition in season 1999/2000. World Cup points, he reached up to now four times, with the 21st place from Sapporo in 2006 his best individual result. With the South Korean team he once managed an eighth place, also in Sapporo.
Career
Kim Hyun -Ki took already the age of 16 participated in the Nordic World Ski Championships 1999 in Ramsau. His best World Cup placement comes from the Nordic World Ski Championships 2005, when he was 38th on the large hill. Also in 2005, he reached with the team ranked 10 on the normal hill. However, Kim's best World Cup result comes from the ski flying World Cup 2006 from the Kulm, when he surprisingly reached the final and eventually became 30.
For Olympic Winter Games was Kim Hyun -Ki already four times in the South Korean Olympic squad, for the first time as a straight 15 -year-old in Nagano in 1998. In Nagano as well as in the following Games in 2002 in Salt Lake City and Turin 2006 Kim reached every time the finals of both the Normal as well as on the large hill. He took in 2010 in Vancouver at the 2010 Winter Olympics in part, left there but in jumping on the normal hill than 40 after 1 passage out. His best Olympic results in a single jump, and with the team he scored at the Games of Salt Lake City 2002 ( 31 of the large hill and 8th in the team competition ).
In 2009 he won at the Universiade in Harbin (China) at the venue Yabuli on the normal hill at 99.5 m and 94.5 m in front of Marcin Bachleda from Poland and Bastian Kaltenböck from Austria. From the large hill he was behind David Unterberger and his countryman Choi Heung- chul second. In the team competition, he won the gold medal together with Choi Heung- chul and Choi Yong- jik, in Austria and Germany.
On September 5, 2009 at the home of jumping on the large hill in the Alpensia Pyeongchang Jumping Park he succeeded his far only Continental Cup victory, after two days previously occupied by the normal hill in second place.
Kim is a student and speaks Korean except even German. He enjoys skiing and enjoys hiking. His nickname is Zzan Ji.