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Nationality | South Korea | |||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 21 June 1982 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 60 kg (132 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Fencing | |||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Sabre | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Kim Keum-Hwa (also Kim Geum-Hwa, Korean: 김 금화; born June 21, 1982) is a South Korean sabre fencer. She won a total of four medals (two silver and two bronze), as a member of the South Korean fencing team, at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar, and at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China.
Kim represented South Korea at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where she competed in the women's individual sabre event, along with her teammate Lee Shin-Mi. She defeated France's Carole Vergne in the preliminary round of thirty-two, before losing out her next match to China's Tan Xue, with a score of 8–15.