Nationality North Korea Height 1.61 m | Playing style Weight 55 kg | |
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Born August 10, 1994 (age 22) ( 1994-08-10 ) Similar Ri Myong‑Sun, Yu Mengyu, Ai Fukuhara | ||
Kim Song-i ([kim.soŋ.i]; born 10 August 1994) is a North Korean table tennis player. As of December 2016, she is ranked 30th in the world based on ITTF rankings.
Kim plays a highly defensive style with plenty of slice, occasionally injecting pace with top spin strokes from the forehand.
In 2012 in Helsingborg she won the Women's Singles title at the Swedish Open.
She won the bronze medal for North Korea at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
2016 Rio Olympics
In the third round, she surprisingly beat Japan's Kasumi Ishikawa, ranked number six in the world., In the quarter finals, she went on to beat Singaporean Yu Mengyu, ranked 13th, with a score of 4-2 before losing to second-ranked Ding Ning in the semifinals with a score of 4-1. In the bronze medal match, she beat Japan's Ai Fukuhara with a score of 4-1 to take the bronze medal of the 2016 Olympics.