Furthermore, Kim became the first female South Korean to cross the finish line under one hour and thirty minutes, and also, achieved a total of seven national records (2001–2008) and eight straight victories in the same event.

[citation needed] Kim made her official debut for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she placed twenty-fifth in the women's 20 km race walk, and shattered her first career national record-breaking time of 1:36.09.

She also competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, but was disqualified from the same event, for not following the proper form during the race course.

She successfully finished the women's 20 km race walk in twenty-eighth place by eight seconds ahead of Kazakhstan's Svetlana Tolstaya, with a time of 1:33:55.

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