Kim gil-li, women’s 1500m bronze medal
Korean short track team won two silver medals in the team event on the last day of the 3rd competition of the 2024-25 International Skating Union (ISU) Short Track World Tour.
Park Ji-won (Seoul City Hall), Jang Seong-woo (korea University), Kim Gil-li (Seongnam City Hall), and Lee So-yeon (Sports Toto) won 2 minutes 39.308 seconds in the mixed 2000m relay final at the Beijing Capital indoor Stadium in China on the 8th. 115) and took second place.
Korea lost second place to the United States in the middle of the race and came in third place, but took second place thanks to the performance of ‘Ace’ Park Ji-won, who was the last runner.
in the men’s 5000m relay, in which Park Ji-won, Jang Seong-woo, Park Jang-hyuk (Sports Toto), and Kim Tae-seong (Seoul City Hall) participated, Korea was satisfied with a silver medal with a time of 6:47.064, behind China (6:42.551).
Park Ji-won,the last runner from Korea competing with China,fell on the ice.Korea responded calmly to the crisis and finished in second place.
In the individual competition, Kim Gil-li won a bronze medal.
Gilly Kim crossed the finish line in the women’s 1500m final in 2 minutes 25.888 seconds,taking third place after Currin Stoddard (USA,2 minutes 25.738 seconds) and Kristin Santos-Griswold (USA, 2 minutes 25.850 seconds). did it
Kim Gil-li, who took the led with three laps left before the finish line, allowed two people to overtake him in the last lap and crossed the finish line third.
Choi Min-jeong (Seongnam City Hall), who competed in the same event, finished third in the semifinals and fell to Final B.
The men’s national team ace Park Ji-won also failed to win a medal in the individual event.
Park Ji-won, who competed in the men’s 1000m final, took the lead with three laps left over the finish line. Though, he collided with William Danjinu (Canada) on the straight track and fell. The referee declared park Ji-won a foul and disqualified him.
Choi Min-jeong, Kim Gil-li, and Shim Seok-hee (Seoul City Hall), who competed in the women’s 500m, were all unable to advance to the finals.
As a result, Korea finished the competition with one gold medal, three silver medals, and two bronze medals. Korea will participate in the 4th competition of the ISU Short Track World Tour held at the Mokdong Ice Rink in Seoul from the 13th to the 15th.
(Seoul = News 1)
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