Shin Dong-min of South Korea, left, competes within the preliminaries for the lads’s 500 meters on the Worldwide Skating Union Quick Observe World Tour occasion on the Optisport Sportboulevard in Dordrecht, the Netherlands, Nov. 27. EPA-Yonhap
South Koreas are off to stable begins on the fourth and remaining Worldwide Skating Union (ISU) Quick Observe World Tour occasion of the season within the Netherlands, as they attempt to safe spots on the upcoming Winter Olympics.
All three South Korean males superior to the semifinals within the 1,500 meters on the Optisport Sportboulevard in Dordrecht, the Netherlands, on Thursday (native time).
Rim Jong-un completed first in Warmth 3, whereas Shin Dong-min ranked second in Warmth 1 and Lee Jeong-min ended third in Warmth 6.
Within the 500m, Rim and Hwang Dae-heon each skated by means of the preliminaries and the heats to succeed in the quarterfinals.
Within the ladies’s 1,000m, three-time Olympic champion Choi Min-jeong fell to the repechage part after ending third in Warmth 6.
She completed first general within the repechage quarterfinals and can skate within the repechage semifinals Saturday.
Two different South Koreans within the 1,000m, Kim Gil-li and Noh Do-hee, each superior to the quarterfinals while not having repechage.
Additionally on Thursday, South Korea certified for the semifinals within the ladies’s 3,000m relay, that includes Noh, Web optimization Whi-min, Lee So-yeon and Shim Suk-hee, and likewise within the blended 2,000m relay, with Noh, Rim, Lee So-yeon and Lee Jeong-min taking the ice.
Quota locations for the 9 quick observe occasions on the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Video games shall be allotted primarily based on the three finest outcomes out of 4 in every distance on the 4 ISU World Tour competitions.
The 9 Olympic races are: the lads’s and girls’s 500m, 1,000m and 1,500m; the lads’s 5,000m relay; the ladies’s 3,000m relay; and the blended 2,000m relay.
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 and girls’s relays will provide eight quota locations, and the blended relay occasion could 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 ladies for particular person races, and 4 males and 4 ladies for the relays.
For the blended relay, international locations which have a minimum of two male and two feminine skaters already certified in particular person races shall be given precedence.
South Korea leads the all-time Olympic quick observe medal desk with 26 gold medals and 53 medals general.
