Kim Ye-ji Height, Age, Children, Family, Biography
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Hometown: Maepo, South Korea
Age: 32 Years
Marital Status: Unmarried
Some Lesser Known Facts About Kim Ye-ji
- She started training for shooting events when she was in 6th class.
- She started competing in shooting events in 2006.
- She was inspired to take up shooting after she saw her seniors look cool when shooting.
- Initially, her parents were against her taking the sport. To convince them, she refused to eat for three days.
- She stopped participating in the shooting events from 2016 to 2023 and even quit shooting for a year as she felt she wasn’t having fun anymore.
- She went viral during the 2024 Summer Olympics due to her stylish appearance and charisma.
- Her style was compared to fictional characters such as James Bond and John Wick and she was labelled online as a sci-fi assassin.
- She held an elephant figurine in her left hand while shooting which many thought was a gift from her daughter. Instead, it was a towel given by her coach to keep her hands dry.
- She failed to qualify for the 25-meter women’s final at the Paris Olympics after missing the timing of her shot by 0.01 seconds.
- At the same time, a video of her calm demeanour after setting a world record in the 25m pistol event during the ISSF World Cup, held in Baku, in May 2024 went viral.
- In an interview, she talked about being a sleepy person and her habit of taking naps during the shooting sessions.
- After getting viral on social media, she thanked entrepreneur Elon Musk for his comments, calling her to be cast in an action movie on one of her clips on X (formerly Twitter) which helped her go viral on the internet.
- In August 2024, after returning to South Korea from the 2024 Summer Olympics, she fainted during a press conference due to stress and exhaustion. She was immediately rushed to the hospital.