Viktor Kim

Viktor Georgievich Kim (; born 27 July 1955) is a Kazakhstani curler and curling coach.

Curling career On the international level, he played (almost always as skip) for Kazakhstan's national men's team at six Pacific Curling Championships (2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018), three European Curling Championships (2004, 2005, 2006) He competed at three World Senior Curling Championships (2015, 2017, 2019).

He was also the coach of various Kazakhstani national curling teams at many international curling tournaments.

He is the "founder of Kazakhstani curling": after he saw the curling competition at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, he founded the Kazakhstan Curling Association in 2003 and he is the Secretary General of this Association. He is a member of the National Olympic Committee of the Republic of Kazakhstan.

He started curling in 2003. His first coach was Russian curler and coach Alexander Kirikov.

Personal life Kim is a Koryo-saram, and he lives in Kazakhstan. His son Daniel Kim is also a curler and curling coach. Viktor and Daniel played on the same team many times, for example, at the 2015 Pacific-Asia Curling Championships.