Park Ji-won (Seoul City Hall) of the men’s short track team performed a gold run in the second round of the 2022-2023 International Skating Union (ISU) Short Track World Cup.
Park Ji-won took first place in the men’s 1000m final of the 2nd International Skating Union (ISU) 2022-2023 Short Track World Cup held at the Utah Olympic Oval in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA on 7 ( Korean time) with a record of 1: 25.202. .
Kyunghwan Hong (Goyang City Hall) won the silver medal with a time of 1: 25.263.
Park Ji-won and Hong Kyung-hwan took first and second place side by side from the start of the race. Hong Kyung-hwan took the lead for a while with 7 laps to go, but Park Ji-won immediately overtook the exit course and regained the lead.
Park Ji-won did not lose the lead afterwards. Park Ji-won, who kept the lead by controlling Hong Kyung-hwan well, who attempted to overtake with half a lap to go, crossed the line first.
Park Ji-won, who won two gold medals in the 1500m and a 2000m medley relay in the first World Cup, continued his streak of gold medals in the second event.
The women’s national team, consisting of Kim Geon-hee (Dankook University), Kim Gil-ri (Seohyun High School), Seo Hwi-min (Korea University) and Shim Seok-hee (Seoul City Hall), finished first in the final of the 3000m relay with a time of 4: 04.016.
Kim Gil-ri, who had won the gold medal in the women’s 1500m the day before, was crowned with two gold medals.
Choi Min-jeong (Seongnam City Hall), the ace of the women’s national team, finished second in the second final of the women’s 500m race with a time of 42.384 seconds, behind Sandra Belzebur (Netherlands, 41.602).
Choi Min-jeong, who won a bronze medal in the 1500m the previous day, collected medals in all the individual events that participated in this event. Choi Min-jung did not run the relay for this event.
However, after the first World Cup in which he only won a silver medal in the second 1000m race, he was “out of gold” only for the second consecutive time.
Hong Kyung-hwan, Kim Tae-seong (Dankook University), Lim Yong-jin (Goyang City Hall) and Park Ji-won have given up gold and silver medals to Canada in the men’s 5000m relay.
In the women’s 1000 meters final, where no Korean skater made it to the final, Choi Min-jeong’s rival Schizaner Sfilting (Netherlands) won the gold medal with a time of 1: 28.241.
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