Kim Min-seon, who is called the successor of Lee Sang-hwa, the “Ice Empress”, won two consecutive gold medals in the 500m World Cup.
Kim Min-sun won the 2022-2023 International Skating Union (ISU) Speed Skating World Cup 2nd Competition Women’s 500m in Heerenveen, Netherlands with a best time of 37s 21s.
Kim Min-sun, who won her first World Cup gold medal at the first tournament held in Norway last week, has won two gold medals in a row.
Kim Min-seon raced with Utah Leyredam of the Netherlands in the final group 10 going among 20 players.
Despite starting a bit late, he cleared the first 100m with a 2nd overall time of 10.43, and continued his fast run with a sense of stability.
Min-seon Kim, who sprinted vigorously at the last minute without showing signs of fatigue even after rounding the final corner, took first place with a record of 37s 21s.
She easily outpaced runner-up Vanessa Herzog of Austria by 0.27 seconds.
The gap to Leirdam (37 seconds 51), who won the bronze medal, was 0.3 seconds.
Kim Min-seon climbed to the top again with a record over 0.3 seconds faster than in the first competition, clearly proving last week’s gold medal was no coincidence.
Kim Min-seon, who was the first ever to win a silver medal in the 1,000m competition, surpassed Lee Sang-hwa and is opening her era by going further than “Lee Sang-hwa’s successor” by winning the 500 meters consecutive gold medal.
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