From left, Netherlands’ Jens van’t Wout, Korea’s Rim Jong-un and Poland’s Felix Nolovsky compete within the 1000 quarter-finals on the ISU World Tour brief monitor pace skating competitors in Dordrecht, Nov. 30. AFP-Yonhap
Korea has ended the Worldwide Skating Union (ISU) Quick Monitor World Tour season with two gold medals and two bronze medals on the circuit’s ultimate cease within the Netherlands.
Kim Gil-li took gold and Choi Min-jeong grabbed bronze within the girls’s 1,500 meters on the Optisport Sportboulevard within the Dutch metropolis of Dordrecht on Sunday (native time).
Kim completed the race in 2:26.306, whereas Cho ended hers in 2:26.568, as the 2 Koreans sandwiched Courtney Sarault of Canada (2:26.443).
Kim stayed at the back of the pack for many of the race and remained in final place among the many 4 remaining finalists after three skaters received snarled and crashed into the wall.
Kim then made her patented late burst on the within nook and claimed her second straight 1,500m World Tour gold medal — following her victory in Poland the earlier week.
The one different Korean champion on this present day got here from the lads’s 1,000m, the place Rim Jong-un (1:25.877) held off Liu Shaoang of China (1:26.023) and Pietro Sighel of Italy (1:26.094)
Rim began the race within the lead however skated in third place behind Sighel and Liu within the center laps, organising his late takeover of the highest spot over the ultimate nook.
Additionally on Sunday, the blended 2,000m relay workforce of Choi, Kim, Rim and Hwang Dae-heon earned bronze with a time of two:38.038, behind the Netherlands (2:37.430) and america (2:37.947).
Korea missed out on a medal within the girls’s 500m, with Choi ending final among the many 5 finalists.
Korea completed the ISU World Tour season with only one medal within the girls’s 500m — Choi’s bronze in Poland final week. International locations will obtain quota locations for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy based mostly on leads to World Tour occasions, and Korea won’t possible earn a most three quota spots within the girls’s 500m.
The three greatest outcomes out of 4 in every distance on the 4 World Tour competitions shall be thought of for Olympic quota locations.
For each women and men, there are 32 quota locations up for grabs within the 500m and 1,000m, and 36 quota locations for the 1,500m. The lads’s 5,000m relay and girls’s 3,000m relay will every supply eight quota locations, and the blended 2,000m relay occasion may have 12 quota locations.
Every nation can earn a most three quota locations per particular person occasion and one quota place per relay occasion. Groups can every register three males and three girls for particular person races, and 4 males and 4 girls for the relays. For the blended relay, nations which have at the very least two male and two feminine skaters already certified in particular person races shall be given precedence.
On the 2014 Sochi Winter Video games, Korea missed out on a quota place within the males’s 500m and the lads’s 1,000m. South Korea was represented absolutely in each occasion because the host nation of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics however then solely had two skaters every within the males’s and girls’s 500m on the 2022 competitors in Beijing.
Korea didn’t win a medal within the males’s 500m on the ISU World Tour this season and can possible fall wanting three quota locations there.
The ISU is scheduled to finalize the Olympic quotas and inform every nation of these outcomes on Dec. 12.
