Ra Kyung-min

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This is a Korean name; the family name is Ra.

Olympic medal record
Women's badminton
Silver	1996 Atlanta	Mixed Doubles
Bronze	2004 Athens	Doubles

Ra Kyung-min (born 25 November 1976) is a female badminton player from South Korea.

Ra is married with her former mixed doubles partner Kim Dong-moon, and in July 2007 they had a son called Kim Han-wool.^[1]

[edit] Career

Ra competed for Korea in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in women's doubles with partner Lee Kyung-won. They had a bye in the first round and defeated Pernille Harder and Mette Schjoldager of Denmark in the second. In the quarterfinals, Ra and Lee beat Lotte Bruil and Mia Audina of the Netherlands 15-5, 15-2. They lost the semifinal to Zhang Jiewen and Yang Wei of China 15-6, 15-4 but won the bronze medal match against Zhao Tingting and Wei Yili, also of China, 10-15, 15-9, 15-7 to win the bronze medal.

Ra also competed in mixed doubles with partner Kim Dong-moon. They had a bye in the first round and defeated Chris Bruil and Lotte Bruil of the Netherlands in the second. In the quarterfinals, Ra and Kim lost to Jonas Rasmussen and Rikke Olsen of Denmark 17-14, 15-8.

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