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Chil-Ku KANG

Korea

Gender: Male
Nationality: Korea

Birthday: 8 August 1984
Age: 29

Height: 1.74 m (5' 9'')
Weight: 59 kg / 130 lbs

Place of Birth: Korea, JEONBUK
Place of Residence: -

Ski Jumping

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Athlete competitions and results

8 February, 20:30 Men's Normal Hill Individual Qualification Round
Chil-Ku KANG
Total Points: 99.3
Rank: 42

14 February, 21:30 Men's Large Hill Individual Qualification Round
Chil-Ku KANG
Total Points: 78.8
Rank: 45

17 February, 21:15 Men's Team 1st Round
Team: KOR
Total Points: 402.0
Rank: 11

Additional Information

Highlights

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
Olympic Winter Games
8	Large Hill Team	2002	Salt Lake City, UT, USA	801.6
13	Large Hill Team	2006	Torino, ITA	321.5
46	Normal Hill Individual	2002	Salt Lake City, UT, USA	96.0
47	Large Hill Individual	2002	Salt Lake City, UT, USA	83.2
	Normal Hill Individual	2006	Torino, ITA	DNQ
	Large Hill Individual	2006	Torino, ITA	DNQ

Best performance per season in World Cup events from 2010/2011

Season	Large Hill Individual	SF-Individual	LH-Team
2013/2014	7 x DNQ	-	1 x 13th
2012/2013	1 x 49th	2 x DNQ	1 x 12th
2011/2012	1 x DNQ	-	1 x 10th

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
Ten best World Cup performances in current season
13	Large Hill Team	2013/2014	Klingenthal, GER	408.3
	Large Hill Individual	2013/2014	Willingen, GER	DNQ
	Large Hill Individual	2013/2014	Bischofshofen, AUT	DNQ
	Large Hill Individual	2013/2014	Innsbruck, AUT	DNQ
	Large Hill Individual	2013/2014	Engelberg, SUI	DNQ
	Large Hill Individual	2013/2014	Engelberg, SUI	DNQ
	Large Hill Individual	2013/2014	Kuusamo, FIN	DNQ
	Large Hill Individual	2013/2014	Klingenthal, GER	DNQ

Legend
NH-Normal Hill, LH-Large Hill, SF-Ski Flying, DNS-Did not start, DNQ-Did not qualify for main competition, DSQ-Disqualified

Hobbies: Listening to music. (FIS, 20 Jan 2010)
Education: Korea National Sports University, Seoul, KOR
Languages Spoken: German, Korean
Debut: 2001 for Korea, World Cup (Predazzo) (fis-ski.com, 2014)

Occupation: Athlete
Family: Wife Kim A-Reum Kim, one child
Coach: Wolfgang Hartmann [national] (GER) from 2012 (ski.sports.or.kr, 31 Jan 2014)
Previous Olympics: Torino 2006, Salt Lake City 2002

Additional Information

Start of sporting career
He took up the sport in 1994 in Muju, Korea. (Athlete, 03 Feb 2011)

Reason for taking up this sport
"Ski jumping was much more attractive than any other sport." (Athlete, 03 Feb 2011)

Sporting philosophy / motto
"There is no luck without any effort." (people.search.naver.com, 11 Jan 2011)

General
FILM
The Korean film titled 'Take Off' was based on the story of Kang and three of his teammates.(seoul.co.kr, 05 Jan 2011)