Hangul 김민정 Name Kim Min-jung Hanja 金旼貞 Role Player | Height 1.69 m McCune–Reischauer Kim Minjong Weight 60 kg | |
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Born July 29, 1986 (age 37) ( 1986-07-29 ) Jeju, South Korea | ||
Revised Romanization Gim Minjeong | ||
Kim Min-jung (born July 29, 1986 in Jeju, South Korea) is a badminton player representing South Korea. Her name is sometimes spelled Kim Min-jeong.
As a badminton player Kim has focused on doubles with Ha Jung-eun; together they competed at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In the past she has been paired with Hwang Ji-man and Yoo Yeon-seong in Mixed Doubles.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, Kim and her partner Ha Jung-eun, along with Jung Kyung-eun and Kim Ha-na of South Korea, Wang Xiaoli and Yu Yang of China, and Meiliana Jauhari and Greysia Polii of Indonesia were disqualified from the competition for "not using one's best efforts to win a match" and "conducting oneself in a manner that is clearly abusive or detrimental to the sport" following matches the previous evening during which they were accused of trying to lose in order to manipulate the draw. Kim and her partner Ha Jung-eun played against Indonesia's Meiliana Jauhari and Greysia Polii. It is suspected that the Koreans emulated China so to avoid playing against another Korean team in the semi-finals; the Korean head coach Sung Han-kook said "Because they don't want to play the semi-final against each other, so we did the same. We didn't want to play the South Korean team again". South Korea filed an appeal to the case, but it was rejected by the Badminton World Federation.
Record against selected opponents
Women's doubles results with Ha Jung-eun against Super Series finalists, Worlds semifinalists, and Olympic quarterfinalists.