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| Kim Cheong-yong | |
| Fullname: | Kim Cheong-yong |
| Birth Date: | 1 January 1997 |
| Birth Place: | Uiwang, Gyeonggi-do, South Korea |
| Weight: | 670NaN0 |
| Sport: | Shooting |
| Event: | 10 m air pistol (AP60) 50 m pistol (FP) |
| Club: | Heung-deok High School |
| Coach: | Kim Seun-il |
| Show-Medals: | yes |
Kim Cheong-yong (ko|김 청용; born January 1, 1997, in Uiwang, Gyeonggi-do) is a South Korean sport shooter.[1] He won a silver medal in boys' 10 m air pistol shooting at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China, and eventually claimed a gold medal to a thunderous applause from the home crowd when South Korea hosted the Asian Games a month later.[2] Kim is a member of the shooting club at Heung-deok High School in Uiwang under his personal coach Kim Seun-il.[1] [3]
Kim first came to a worldwide attention as a 17-year-old at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China, where he fired a score of 201.2 to take the silver medal in the boys' 10 m air pistol, falling short to Ukraine's Pavlo Korostylov by a stalwart 3.6-point margin.[2] [4] [5]
When his nation South Korea hosted the Asian Games one month later, Kim beat a star-studded field in the final, including his personal hero and the reigning World and Olympic champion Jin Jong-oh, to claim the gold medal on his senior debut in air pistol shooting, finishing with an astonishing record of 201.2.[3] [6] [7]