Korean women’s short track “Ki Dae-ju” Kim Gil-li (Seongnam Seohyeon High) won the gold medal in the second round of the International Skating Union (ISU) World Cup.
Gil-li Kim competed with Anna Seidel (Germany, 2: 26.743) in the women’s 1500m final on day two of the second day of the 2022-2023 ISU Short Track World Cup held at the Utah Olympic Oval in Salt Lake City, Utah , USA 6 with a record of 2: 26.530 Choi Min-jeong (Seongnam City Hall, 2: 26.899) won the championship.
Gil-ri Kim, who won the silver medal in this event in the first World Cup in Montreal, Canada at the end of last month, took first place in the women’s overall standings and 1500 meters in the World Cup. this season by winning the second tournament.
Kim Gil-li, who took the lead at the start of the Finals and was briefly pushed to 3rd place, passed the exit with 9 laps to go and sat up front again, leading the race to the end.
Choi Min-jung crossed the line in 4th place, but Hanne Desmet (Belgium), who had entered earlier, was disqualified and moved up to 3rd place.
In the 2000m mixed final, Korea, who teamed up with Hong Kyung-hwan (Goyang City Hall), Kim Tae-seong (Dankook University), Lee So-yeon (Sports Toto) and Shim Seok-hee (City Hall of Seoul), beat China (2: 37.153) with a record of 2: 37.181, then won a silver medal around the neck.
In addition, in the men’s 1,500m final, Park Ji-won (Seoul City Hall), who won two gold medals in the first individual event, took second place after Jens Pantbaut (Netherlands, 2: 11.909) at 2 : 12: 204, and Jun-seo Lee in the first men’s 500m race (Korea National University) finished third with a time of 41.350.
Korea will advance to the finals in both the women’s 3,000m relay and the men’s 5,000m relay, and will start hunting further medals in the second men’s and women’s 500m, 1000m relay race to be held on the 7th.
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