KIM Heejin

Olympic Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
4	Women	2012	London, GBR
5	Women	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA

World Championship

Rank	Event	Year	Location
13	Women	2010	Japan

World Cup

Rank	Event	Year	Location
6	Women	2019	Japan

Asian Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
3	Women	2019	Republic of Korea
3	Women	2017	Philippines

Heejini Hyung ['Hyung' means 'older brother' in English and is a reference to her short hair]. (news.joins.com, 06 Sep 2017)

Listening to music. (sports.ibk.co.kr, 01 Jan 2021)

Athlete

Korean

Industrial Bank of Korea [IBK] Altos [Hwaseong, KOR] since 2010/11

Kim Woo-Jae [club], KOR; Stefano Lavarini [national], ITA

Middle blocker (sports.ibk.co.kr, 01 Jan 2021)

Right (news.joins.com, 06 Sep 2017; thespike.co.kr, 22 Jun 2018)

Her mother Kim Seong-Ho played tennis at national level in the Republic of Korea. (thespike.co.kr, 27 Feb 2021)

2009 for Republic of Korea (thespike.co.kr, 23 Sep 2018)

In May 2021 she underwent surgery on her left knee in order to remove bone fragments. She was unavailable for selection for the 2021 Nations League in Rimini, Italy, due to the injury. (thesportstimes.co.kr, 18 May 2021)

She injured her ankle during training in July 2020 and was sidelined for four weeks. She was troubled by another ankle injury in November that year. (yna.co.kr, 17 Nov 2020; thesportstimes.co.kr, 31 Aug 2020)

In December 2019 she damaged a muscle in her right calf in a match against Hyundai Engineering and Construction Hillstate in the Korean V-League. In January 2020 she tore a muscle in her right calf at the Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament in Nakhon Ratchasima, Thailand, and returned to competitive action the following month. (nocutnews.co.kr, 22 Feb 2020; yonhapnewstv.co.kr, 21 Jan 2020; hankyung.com, 02 Feb 2020; inews24.com, 10 Dec 2019)

She tore a ligament in her right elbow in both 2016 and 2018. In 2018 the injury also affected a muscle in her right shoulder, and she was ruled out of the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia. (news.joins.com, 06 Sep 2017; thespike.co.kr, 22 Jun 2018; thespike.co.kr, 23 Sep 2018)

She was sidelined for four weeks in 2016 after undergoing surgery on one of the fingers on her right hand. (newsis.com, 02 Feb 2016)

She injured her left hamstring and rib at the 2015 World Cup in Japan. (newsis.com, 04 Sep 2015)

V-League [KOR] (kovo.co.kr, 31 Dec 2020)

She took up the sport at around age 11 at school in the Republic of Korea. (blog.naver.com, 27 Oct 2013)

Her coach encouraged her to switch from high jump to volleyball. (seoul.co.kr, 29 May 2009)

To win a medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, and to be named Most Valuable Player in the Korean V-League. (thespike.co.kr, 27 Feb 2021)

Making her debut for the national team in 2009. (sports.bk.co.kr, 16 Jul 2014; thespike.co.kr, 23 Sep 2018)

Korean volleyball player Kim Yeon-Koung. (thespike.co.kr, 27 Feb 2021)

She was named in the Best Seven team of the year for the 2014/15 Korean V-League season. (kovo.co.kr, 06 Jan 2021)

In 2014 she received the Volleyball Player of the Year award at the Dong-A Sports Awards in the Republic of Korea. (mt.co.kr, 02 Dec 2014)

She was named Most Valuable Player [MVP] at the Korea Volleyball Federation [KOVO] Cup in the Republic of Korea in 2013 and 2015. (yonhapnews.co.kr, 19 Jul 2015)