Ice Speed Kim Min-seon Wins Gold in the 1st 500m Race

Ice Speed Kim Min-seon Wins Gold in the 1st 500m Race of the 6th World Cup… 7 Consecutive Medals

Jaewon Jeong, a long-distance star, won the overall victory in the second race on the 5th, adding a silver medal in the mass start.

The new queen of ice speed, Kim Min-seon (Uijeongbu City Hall), set a track record (the highest record in the stadium) in the women's 500m World Cup and succeeded in winning a medal for the 7th time in a row.

Kim Min-seon recorded 37.69 seconds in the first race of the women's 500m at the 6th competition of the 2023-2024 International Skating Union (ISU) Speed Skating World Cup held in Quebec, Canada on the 4th (Korean time), taking second place with Fecker Kok (Netherlands, 37.70 seconds) won the gold medal by 0.01 seconds.

Min-seon Kim beat the track record he set in 2022 by 0.45 seconds. 메이저사이트

Min-sun Kim, who started with Erin Jackson of the United States on the Group 9 outcourse, passed his first 100m in 10.41 seconds, the first overall time.

Kim Min-seon, who sprinted on the straight track after exiting the last incourse, crossed the finish line with the fastest time among the 20 participating athletes.

Min-seon Kim has been on a streak of seven consecutive medals in the women's 500m at the World Cup since winning the bronze medal in the second race of the women's 500m at the 2nd World Cup held in November last year.

Kim Min-seon, who added 60 ranking points to her ranking, maintained her second place spot with 460 points.

First place is Jackson, who accumulated 474 points.

Kim Min-seon aims for a come-from-behind overall win in the second 500m race to be held on the 5th.

Lee Na-hyun (Nowon High School), who also competed, ranked 13th with a time of 38.72 seconds.

Jeong Jae-won (Uijeongbu City Hall), a long-distance speed skating star, took second place in the men's mass start with a time of 7 minutes 56.11 seconds.

First place was Japan's Shomu Sasaki, who recorded 7 minutes 56.06 seconds.

Jeong Jae-won, who was looking for an opportunity in 7th to 8th place until the end of the race, joined the lead with the last lap left, and rose to second place as he entered the final curve.

Jeong Jae-won, who passed the curved track closely behind the leader Sasaki, sprinted on the straight track, but was narrowly missed and crossed the finish line second.

Seunghoon Lee (Alpensia), who also competed, ranked 8th.

Jeong Jae-won, who added 54 ranking points, accumulated 269 points and finished in second place in the overall ranking.

1st place went to Italy's Andrea Giovannini (274 points).

Meanwhile, Jaewon Jeong ranked 13th in the men's 1,500m with a time of 1 minute 47.38 seconds, and Hyunjun Ahn (Seongnam City Hall) ranked 16th with a time of 1 minute 47.76 seconds.

In the first men's 500m race, Kim Jun-ho (Gangwon Provincial Office, 34.99 seconds) and Cho Sang-hyuk (Sports Toto, 35.16 seconds) ranked 8th and 14th, respectively.

The women's sprint team consisting of Park Chae-eun (Korea National Sport University), Kim Min-ji (Seoul General), and Kang Su-min (Korea University) took 6th place with a time of 1 minute 31.56 seconds.