Kim Hye-rin (curler)

Kim Hye-rin (born November 9, 1999) is a South Korean curler. She currently plays second for Team Kim Min-ji. She is a 2018 Pacific-Asia Curling champion.

Kim Hye-rin
Curler
Born (1999-11-09) November 9, 1999[1]
Gyeonggido, South Korea[2]
Team
Curling clubChuncheon CC
SkipKim Min-ji
ThirdHa Seung-youn
SecondKim Hye-rin
LeadKim Su-jin
AlternateYang Tae-i
Career
Member Association South Korea
World Championship
appearances		1 (2019)
Pacific-Asia Championship
appearances		1 (2018)
Other appearancesWorld Junior Curling Championships: 4 (2016, 2017, 2018, 2020)
Medal record
Curling
Representing  South Korea
World Curling Championships
2019 Silkeborg
Winter Universiade
2019 Krasnoyarsk
Pacific-Asia Curling Championships
2018 Gangneung
World Junior Curling Championships
2020 Krasnoyarsk
2016 Copenhagen

Career

Kim played third for the South Korean junior team at the 2016 World Junior Curling Championships, skipped by Kim Min-ji, where she would win the bronze medal. After finishing the round robin with a 7-2 record, the team lost to Hungary (skipped by Dorottya Palancsa) in the 3 vs. 4 page playoff game, but went on to beat the Hungarians in a re-match in the bronze medal game, after Hungary lost in the semi-final.

The next season, the team began playing on the World Curling Tour. They won her first tour event by claiming the 2016 Hub International Crown of Curling.

The team represented Korea at the 2017 World Junior Curling Championships, where they posted a 5-4 round robin record, tied with Switzerland for fourth. They would beat the Swiss in a tiebreaker, before losing two straight games against Canada to finish in 4th place. This team represented Korea at the 2018 World Junior Curling Championships, where they finished with a 4-5 record, missing the playoffs.

The team began the 2018-19 curling season by winning the Hokkaido Bank Curling Classic. They then went on to win gold at the 2018 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships, earning South Korea a berth at the 2019 World Women's Curling Championship.

She and her team represented South Korea at the first three legs of the 2018–19 Curling World Cup. In the first leg, they finished with a 1-5 record, missing the playoffs. In the Second Leg, they made it all the way to the final falling just short to Japan's Satsuki Fujisawa 7-6. They improved on this performance by winning the Third Leg against Sweden's Anna Hasselborg rink. In the Grand Final, the team finished with a 2-4 record.

Her team, still junior eligible represented Korea at the 2019 World Junior Curling Championships. They finished the round robin with a 6-3 record, which was tied with three other teams for the second best record. However, they missed the playoffs due to tiebreaker rules. The following month, the team represented Korea at the 2019 Winter Universiade. This time their 6-3 record was enough to make the playoffs, where they made it all the way to the final before losing to Sweden. Later that month, the team had yet another international event to play in, the 2019 World Championship. The team was even better on this stage, finishing the round robin with a 9-3 record, in second place. In the playoffs, they lost to Switzerland's Silvana Tirinzoni rink in the semifinal, but rebounded to win the bronze medal game against Seina Nakajima of Japan. It was the first ever medal won by Korea at the Women's World Championship. The team ended their season with a 1–3 record at the 2019 Champions Cup Grand Slam of Curling event.

Team Kim lost the final of the 2020 Korean Women's Curling Championship the following season in June 2019 to the Gim Un-chi rink after Kim missed her last shot and gave up a steal of two in the tenth end.[3] This meant they would not be the national women's team for the season. The team won the Tour Challenge Tier 2 event after a strong 9–2 win over Jestyn Murphy. This qualified them for the Canadian Open in Yorkton, Saskatchewan. There, they defeated higher ranked teams such as three time Scotties champion Rachel Homan, 2013 world champion Eve Muirhead and 2020 Scotties champion Kerri Einarson. They made it all the way to the final before losing to the Anna Hasselborg rink in an extra end. They also made it all the way to the final of the 2020 World Junior Curling Championships, where they lost to Canada's Mackenzie Zacharias.

References
  1. http://www.koreacurling.co.kr/team/player/%EA%B5%AD%EA%B0%80%EB%8C%80%ED%91%9C
  2. "Hyerin Kim | Players". Curling World Cup. Retrieved 2018-12-09.
  3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHdXaedk7Dk
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