Kim Kum Yong
Kim in 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 17 August 2001 Pyongyang, North Korea | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Table tennis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing style | Left-handed, shakehand grip | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Highest ranking | 45 (1 June 2025) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current ranking | 45 (15 July 2025) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Hangul | 김금영 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| RR | Gim Geumyeong | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| MR | Kim Kŭmyŏng | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kim Kum Yong (Korean: 김금영; born 17 August 2001) is a North Korean table tennis player. She is a left-handed attacker and uses the shakehand grip. At the 2024 Summer Olympics she won a silver medal in the mixed doubles tournament alongside Ri Jong Sik. She is the defending Women's Singles Asian Champion.
Born in Pyongyang, Kim began competing internationally in 2018 and achieved early success at the junior level, including a silver medal in the girls' team event at the 2019 Asian Junior and Cadet Table Tennis Championships. In 2020 she began a three-year hiatus from international competition alongside the rest of the North Korean table tennis team, returning for the 2022 Asian Games held in 2023.
Like her mixed doubles partner Ri, Kim qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics as an unranked and relatively unknown player, but the pair managed to advance to the mixed doubles final after defeating much higher-ranked opponents, including defending champions Japan, before losing to China. Later that year, she won the women's singles title at the Asian Table Tennis Championships.