| Kim Song-i | |
| Nationality: | North Korea |
| Playingstyle: | Right-handed, Classic[1] |
| Club: | Amrokkang Sports Club |
| Birth Date: | 10 August 1994 |
| Birth Place: | Phyongchon District, Pyongyang |
| Height: | 1.61 m |
| Weight: | 55 kg |
| Show-Medals: | yes |
| Hangul: | 김송이 |
| Hanja: | 金松怡 |
| Rr: | Kim Sung-I |
| Mr: | Kim Song-I |
| Context: | North |
Kim Song-i (pronounced as /ko/; born 10 August 1994) is a North Korean table tennis player. As of November 2017, she is ranked 23rd in the world based on ITTF rankings.[2]
Kim plays a highly defensive style with plenty of slice, occasionally injecting pace with top spin strokes from the forehand.[3] She represents the Amrokkang Sports Club.
She won the bronze medal for North Korea at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Kim was born on 10 August 1994 to a working-class family in Phyongchon District, Pyongyang.[4] She went to the Ponghak Primary School and later the Sosong District Juvenile Sports School.[4]
In 2012 in Helsingborg she won the Women's Singles title at the Swedish Open.[5]
In the third round, she surprisingly beat Japan's Kasumi Ishikawa, ranked number six in the world.,[6] In the quarter-finals, she went on to beat Singaporean Yu Mengyu, ranked 13th, with a score of 4-2 before losing to second-ranked Ding Ning in the semifinals with a score of 4–1. However, Kim was not an easy opponent for Ding, who was both stressed and exhausted after the match.[7] In the bronze medal match, she beat Japan's Ai Fukuhara with a score of 4–1 to take the bronze medal of the 2016 Olympics.[8]