Korea collected three titles on the ultimate day of the most recent cease on the Worldwide Skating Union (ISU) Brief Observe World Tour in Poland, a day after being shut out of medals.
Kim Gil-li and Choi Min-jeong had a 1-2 end within the ladies’s 1,500-meter remaining at Hala Olivia in Gdansk on Sunday (native time), leaving Courtney Sarault of Canada in third place. Kim crossed the road in 2:30.610, whereas Choi did so in 2:30.656, with the 2 Koreans charging to the entrance over the ultimate stretch after biding their time behind the pack.
This was Kim’s first particular person gold medal on the World Tour this season and her third particular person medal general. Choi, who added a bronze within the 500m on Sunday, now has 4 medals in particular person races thus far this season.
Earlier within the day, Kim and Choi joined Lee Jeong-min and Rim Jong-un for the gold medal within the combined 2,000m relay, serving to Korea (2:40.155) maintain off the Netherlands (2:40.224) for its first combined relay title of this season.
After Kim and Choi helped Korea take the lead, Lee gave the crew an excellent larger cushion earlier than Rim anchored the quartet to the title.
Lee and Rim additionally gained the boys’s 5,000m relay gold medal Sunday, alongside Shin Dong-min and Lee June-seo.
With six laps to go, Lee Jeong-min zipped previous skaters from China and Italy with a burst of velocity to push Korea into first place. Following an alternate moments later, Chinese language and Italian skaters received twisted up and crashed into the wall, permitting Korea to cruise to the title in 7:07.098.
The Dutch crew crossed the road behind Korea however was disqualified for a violation, with China (7:14.517) and Italy (7:16.683) ending up with the silver and bronze medals as an alternative.
On the ISU World Tour, skaters are vying for quota locations for the 9 races on the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics.
The three finest outcomes out of 4 ISU World Tour stops will likely be thought of for Olympic quota locations within the following races: the boys’s and girls’s 500m, 1,000m and 1,500m; the boys’s 5,000m relay; the ladies’s 3,000m relay; and the combined 2,000m relay.
There are 32 quota locations up for grabs within the 500m and 1,000m, and 36 quota locations for the 1,500m. The boys’s and girls’s relays will supply eight quota locations, and the combined relay occasion could have 12 quota locations.
Korea leads the all-time Olympic brief observe medal desk with 26 gold medals and 53 medals general.
After three World Cup competitions, Korea leads the general standings within the males’s 5,000m relay and the combined 2,000m relay, and is in second place within the ladies’s 3,000m relay.
Amongst particular person occasions, Kim Gil-li and Choi Min-jeong are second and third general within the ladies’s 1,500m, behind Sarault. No Korean man is within the high three in any particular person race.
