Viktor Kim
{{Short description|Kazakhstani curler (born 1955)}}
{{Infobox curler
| name = Viktor Kim
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1955|7|27|df=y}}
| birth_place =
| Member Association = {{KAZ}}
| World Championship appearances =
| World Mixed Doubles Championship appearances = 2 ({{WMDCC|2016}}, {{WMDCC|2017}})
| Pacific Championship appearances = 7 ({{PACC|2012}}, {{PACC|2014}}, {{PACC|2015}}, {{PACC|2016}}, {{PACC|2017}}, {{PACC|2018}}, {{PACC|2021}})
| European Championship appearances = 3 ({{EuCC|2004}}, {{EuCC|2005}}, {{EuCC|2006}})
| Other appearances = World Mixed Championships: 4 ({{WMxCC|2015}}, {{WMxCC|2016}}, {{WMxCC|2017}}, {{WMxCC|2018}})
European Mixed Championships: 1 (2006)
Asian Winter Games: 1 (2007)
World Senior Championships: 3 ({{WSCC|2015}}, {{WSCC|2017}}, {{WSCC|2019}})
| medaltemplates =
{{MedalSport | Curling }}
}}
Viktor Kim ({{langx|ru|Ви́ктор Гео́ргиевич Ким}}; born 27 July 1955) is a Kazakhstani curler and curling coach.
Curling career
On the international level, he played (almost always as skip) for Kazakhstan's national men's team at six Pacific Curling Championships (2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018), three European Curling Championships (2004, 2005, 2006) and one Asian Winter Games (2007). He also represented Kazakhstan at two World Mixed Doubles Curling Championships (2016, 2017), four World Mixed Curling Championships (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018), and one European Mixed Curling Championship (2006).At 2003—2007 Kazakhstan was member of European Curling Federation He competed at three World Senior Curling Championships (2015, 2017, 2019).
He was also the coach of various Kazakhstani national curling teams at many international curling tournaments.
He is the "founder of Kazakhstani curling": after he saw the curling competition at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, he founded the Kazakhstan Curling Association in 2003[http://vesti.kz/curling/158522/ Керлинг. Виктор Ким: «У нас появилась возможность тренироваться и играть» - Vesti.kz][http://prosportkz.kz/ru/news/12693.html PROСПОРТ — Виктор Ким: Чтобы вырастить хорошего спортсмена, нужно десять лет] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104075206/http://prosportkz.kz/ru/news/12693.html |date=2016-11-04 }}{{in lang|ru}} and he is the Secretary General of this Association.{{cite web |url=http://sport.gov.kz/ru/?page_id=242 |script-title=ru:Керлинга – Комитет по делам спорта и физической культуры |language=ru |access-date=2018-10-23 |archive-date=2016-01-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160106225503/http://sport.gov.kz/ru/?page_id=242 |url-status=dead }} He is a member of the National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
He started curling in 2003. His first coach was Russian curler and coach Alexander Kirikov.
In a game against Canada at the 2019 World Senior Curling Championships, Kim was suspended from the match, and was later ejected from the tournament due to an incident involving an on-ice official.{{cite web| url = https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/curling/kazakhstan-skip-suspended-world-senior-curling-championship-1.5107060| title = Kazakhstan skip kicked out of world senior curling championship {{!}} CBC Sports}}
Personal life
Kim is Korean, and he lives in Kazakhstan. His son Daniel Kim[http://results.worldcurling.org/Person/Details/6790 Daniel Kim – WCF database] is also a curler and curling coach. Viktor and Daniel played on the same team many times, for example, at the 2015 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships.[http://www.arirang.ru/news/2005/03.02.2005.htm Интервью с президентом Ассоциации керлинга Республики Казахстан Владимиром КИМОМ]{{in lang|ru}}
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Category:Kazakhstani male curlers
Category:Kazakhstani people of Korean descent
Category:Curlers at the 2007 Asian Winter Games
Category:Curlers at the 2017 Asian Winter Games
Category:Kazakhstani curling coaches