Kim Ji-hyun (badminton)
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| Birth name | 김지현 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Country | South Korea | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 10 September 1974 Busan, South Korea | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 60 kg (132 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Handedness | Right | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Women's singles & doubles | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kim Ji-hyun (Korean: 김지현; Hanja: 金志炫; born 10 September 1974), also known as Jihyun Marr, is South Korean former badminton player. She participated at the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics in the women's singles event. Kim who affiliated with the Samsung Electro-Mechanics team, won the women's singles title at the National Championships tournament in 1997 and 1998. She announced her retirement from the international tournament after the 2001 Korea Open.
She was a former coach at the BWF training academy in Saarbrucken, later joined the New Zealand, Korean, and Indian national team. Earlier in 2019, she helped India get its first gold in BWF World Championships in Basel where P. V. Sindhu became India's first badminton player to become World Champion. She worked as a coach for Indian national team until September 2019 when she resigned to take care of her ailing husband. In november 2020 she was appointed as one of the five new coaches by the Badminton Korea Association (BKA) responsible for the women's singles till 31 October 2022.