Choi Min-jung, I won that gold medal.
Choi Min-jung (Seongnam City Hall), the female short track skater in Korea, won the Olympics for the second time in a row.
Choi Min-jung was the first of 7 athletes to cross the finish line in the women’s 1500m short track race at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics held at the Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing, China on the 16th with a time of 2:17.789.
“Defending champion” Choi Min-jeong, who won the gold medal in this event at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games, succeeded in winning two consecutive championships.
2nd place is Italy’s Arianna Fontana (2:17.862), and 3rd place is Netherlands’ Susan Schultin (2:17.865).
Lee Yoo-bin (Yonsei University), who went to the finals together, placed 6th. China’s Han Yu-tong finished at the bottom (2:19.060).
As a Korean female short track speed skater, she became the second consecutive individual event gold medalist after Jeon Jeon-kyung, who won the women’s 1000m gold medals in Albertville in 1994 and Nagano in 1998.
He also harvested his 3rd gold medal (2 silver medals) in his individual career, Jeon Kyung (4 gold, 1 bronze), Park Seung-hee (2 gold, 3 bronze), Lee Ho-seok (1 gold, 4 silver or more short track), and Lee Seung-hoon (gold) 2 silver and 3 speed skating) and tied for the most medals by a Korean athlete at the Winter Olympics (total of 5).
Choi Min-jung won three medals in this competition alone.
Minjeong Choi, who previously won silver in both the 1000m and 3000m relays, added a gold medal in the 1500m, the main event.
The men’s short track team consisting of Kwak Yun-ki (Goyang City Hall), Hwang Dae-heon (Gangwon Provincial Office), Park Jang-hyeok (Sports Toto), and Lee Jun-seo (Korea National University of Sports) recorded a record of 6:41.679 in the 5000m relay final in Canada (6:41) out of 5 teams. 257) and finished second in the finish line.
Italy (6:43.431) is third.
It is the first time in 12 years that men’s relay has won a medal at the Olympics since the silver medal at the 2010 Vancouver Games. Hwang Dae-heon, who won the gold medal in the 1500m in this event, added one more silver medal.
Host China, who advanced to the final, fell during the race and stayed in the bottom place (6:51.654).
With Choi Min-jung’s gold medal and silver medal in the men’s relay, the Korean delegation secured the 7th medal (2 gold medals, 4 silver medals, 1 bronze medal) in this event.
Team Kim (Gangneung City Hall) of the women’s curling team dramatically defeated Denmark (Skip Madeleine Dupont) 8-7 in the 8th leg of the preliminary round held at the Beijing National Aquatic Center.
Korea, which collapsed 4-8 in the morning against Switzerland, and was pushed to the edge of the brink, was restored by sacrificing Denmark.
The 10 teams will face each other once, and the top 4 teams will advance to the semi-finals.
Switzerland (7-1) secured one ticket, while the rest of the teams are competing for three tickets.
Although the situation is still not positive, Korea still has a chance to advance to the quarterfinals. Korea, having won 4-4, beat Sweden in the final match on the 17th and can get a place in the semi-finals depending on the performance of the competing teams.
Alpine skier Jeong Dong-hyeon (34, High1 Resort) tied with the highest ranking Korean ever in the Winter Olympics.
Donghyun Jeong recorded a total of 1:47.69 in the first and second rounds in the men’s sprint held at the Yanqing National Alpine Ski Center in Beijing.
21st out of 88 players. In the men’s sprint at the 1994 Lillehammer Games, he was on par with the 21st place, the highest ranking in the Olympics for Korean alpine skiers written by Heo Seung-wook.
Jeong Dong-hyun, who was in 29th place with 56.85 in the first period, recorded 50.84 in the second period, raising the final ranking by eight places. She was ranked 16th in her second season alone.
Dong-hyun Jeong, who competed in the Winter Olympics four times in a row from the 2010 Vancouver Games to this one, was ranked 27th in the 2018 Pyeongchang Games rotation.
Jeong Dong-hyun’s 21st place is also the highest among Asian players who participated in the slew of this tournament.
The women’s cross-country national team, consisting of Handasom and Lee Eui-jin (above Gyeonggi Provincial Government), recorded 26:55.52 in the semifinal of the women’s cross-country team sprint classic held at the National Cross-Country Ski Center in Zhangjiakou, Hebei Province.
The final ranking was 22nd out of 27 participating countries.
Team sprint is an event in which two people form a team and take turns riding a course consisting of six sections. The top four countries in each of the semi-finals Groups A and B and the two countries with the fastest records excluding these eight countries advance to the finals.
Min-woo Kim (Pyeongchang-gun Office) and Jong-won Jeong (Gyeonggi-do Provincial Office), who participated in the men’s team sprint classic, finished at the bottom of the 25 countries that participated with a record of 22:56.16. Norway won the gold medal in the men’s division and Germany in the women’s division.