Lee Seung-hoon won the overall championship at the 77th Men’s and Women’s National Speed Skating Championships. yunhap news
Lee Seung-hoon (34, IHQ), a Korean long-distance speed skating veteran, showed his strength by reaching the top of the national competition.
Lee Seung-hun was the fastest in the men’s 10,000m with a time of 14:06:05 at the “77th National Speed Skating Championships for Men and Women” held at Taereung Ice Rink in Seoul on the 28th. In the 1500m men finished third with a time of 1:51:66.
The day before, Lee Seung-hoon moved up to first place in the final standings, which included the men’s 5000m (1st place) and 500m (5th place) results. Jeong Jae-won (21, Uijeongbu Town Hall) was beaten by a small gap in the aggregate score. Jung Jae-won placed second in the men’s 5000m, fourth in the 500m, first in the 1500m and second in the 10,000m.
Yang Ho-jun (17, Uijeongbu Township) ranked third overall. In the full championships, long-distance runners compete in the men’s and women’s 500m, 1500m, 5000m, men’s 10,000m, and women’s 3000m, then add their results together to determine the final standings.
In the women’s division, Kang Soo-min (19, Korea University) won the all-around championship. She placed first in the women’s 1500 m with a time of 2:06.33 and was second in the 5000 m with a time of 7:57.67.
Cha Min-gyu (left) and Kim Jun-ho (Gangwon Provincial Office), who won first place overall at the 49th National Men’s and Women’s Speed Skating Sprint Competition. yunhap news
Cha Min-gyu (29, general from Seoul) topped the men’s division of the ’49th National Men’s and Women’s Sprint Speed Skating Championship’ held at the same venue on the same day. Cha Min-kyu is a sprinter who won silver medals in the men’s 500m at PyeongChang 2018 and at this year’s Beijing Winter Olympics.
On this day, Cha Min-gyu gave first place by 0.01 seconds to Kim Jun-ho (27, Gangwon-do Office) with a time of 35 seconds 330 in the second race of the men’s 500 meters. However, in the second 1000m race, she took first place with a time of 1:11:15. Cha Min-gyu took second place in the first 500m race the previous day and first place in the first 1000m race, and she took first place overall.
Kim Jun-ho moved up to first place in the first 500m race the day before and in the second race that day. However, in the second 1000m race, he was pushed down to 8th place and just missed out on the overall victory. Kim Jun-ho didn’t medal at the Beijing Olympics, but this season he won the men’s 500m in the fourth round of the International Skating Union (ISU) Speed Skating World Cup.
In the women’s division, veteran Kim Hyeon-young (28, Seongnam Town Hall) won the all-around championship, while “new ice queen” Kim Min-seon (23, Uijeongbu Town Hall) did not participate. In the sprint championships, sprinters compete in the first and second races of the men’s and women’s 500 and 1000 meters, respectively, to determine the overall standings.
