Kim Cheong-yong, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Kim Cheong-yong

South Korean sport shooter

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1997

Place of Birth: Uiwang, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea

Profession: sport shooter

Nationality: South Korea

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Kim Cheong-yong (Korean: ? ??; born January 1, 1997 in Uiwang, Gyeonggi-do) is a South Korean sport shooter.
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.
Kim is a member of the shooting club at Heung-deok High School in Uiwang under his personal coach Kim Seun-il.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.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.