Kim Gwong-min
South Korean rugby sevens player
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Kim Gwong-min (born 2 April 1988) is a South Korean rugby player.[1] He competed for South Korea at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
| Born | 2 April 1988 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 82 kg (181 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rugby career
Kim represented South Korea's national under-20 rugby union team at the 2008 IRB Junior World Rugby Trophy in Chile.[2] In 2011, he was named MVP of the Shanghai Sevens, he scored the winning try and completed a hat-trick in the tournament final of the Asia Rugby Sevens Series.[3]
He competed for South Korea in the men's sevens tournament at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.[4][5]
He captained the South Korean fifteens side at the 2022 Asia Rugby Championship.[6][7] Later in September, he represented the sevens side at the World Cup in Cape Town, South Africa.[8][9]
