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| Born | June 10, 1990 (age 32) Seoul, South Korea | |||||||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) (5' 9'') | |||||||
| Weight | 83 kg / 183 lb | |||||||
| Korean name | ||||||||
| Hangul | 경성현 | |||||||
| Revised Romanization | Gyeong Seonghyeon | |||||||
| McCune–Reischauer | Kyŏng Sŏnghyŏn | |||||||
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Kyung Sung-hyun (born June 10, 1990 [1] in Seoul, South Korea) [2] is an alpine skier from South Korea. He competed for South Korea at the 2014 Winter Olympics in the alpine skiing events. [3]
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