Skaters compete within the semifinals of the ladies’s 3,000-meter relay on the Worldwide Skating Union Quick Observe World Tour occasion on the Optisport Sportboulevard in Dordrecht, the Netherlands, Saturday. EPA-Yonhap
Korea didn’t produce any podium end on the primary day of medal races on the ultimate Worldwide Skating Union (ISU) Quick Observe World Tour occasion of the season within the Netherlands.
International locations are vying for quota locations on the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics primarily based on outcomes at 4 World Tour competitions this season, and Korea won’t doubtless earn a most three spots within the males’s 500 meters after failing to win any medal within the distance throughout the World Tour.
Rim Jong-un and Hwang Dae-heon had been eradicated within the quarterfinals on the Optisport Sportboulevard in Dordrecht, the Netherlands, on Saturday (native time), whereas Shin Dong-min was knocked out of the repechage part.
Olympic quota locations can be allotted primarily based on the three finest outcomes out of 4 in every distance on the 4 ISU World Tour competitions.
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 boys’s 5,000m relay and girls’s 3,000m relay will every supply eight quota locations, and the blended 2,000m relay occasion can 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 least two male and two feminine skaters already certified in particular person races can be given precedence.
On the 2014 Sochi Winter Video games, Korea missed out on a quota place within the males’s 500m and the boys’s 1,000m. Korea was represented totally 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.
The ladies’s 500m ultimate in Dordrecht is scheduled for Sunday, as Korea will attempt to earn its second medal of the World Tour following Choi Min-jeong’s bronze in Gdansk, Poland, per week in the past. Choi and Kim Gil-li have made it to the quarterfinals in Dordrecht.
In races apart from the boys’s and girls’s 500m, Korea will doubtless earn most quota locations, although it failed so as to add to its medal tally Saturday.
Within the males’s 1,500m, Rim and Lee Jeong-min could not make it out of the semifinals, whereas Shin, the one Korean within the ultimate, completed sixth.
Choi and Kim didn’t survive the semifinals within the girls’s 1,000m. Their girls’s 3,000m relay crew, which additionally included Shim Suk-hee and Noh Do-hee, completed fourth behind the Netherlands, Italy and the US within the ultimate.
