On this Imagn Pictures photograph, Kim Min-sun of Korea competes within the girls’s 1000m throughout the ISU Speedskating World Cup at Calgary Olympic Oval in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, Nov. 21. Reuters-Yonhap
Velocity skater Kim Min-sun has claimed her first medal of the continuing World Cup season in her principal occasion in Norway.
Kim completed third within the girls’s 500 meters on the fourth Worldwide Skating Union (ISU) Velocity Skating World Cup of the season at Hamar Olympic Corridor in Hamar, Norway, on Sunday (native time), with a time of 37.835 seconds.
Yukino Yoshida of Japan gained the gold in 37.65 seconds, and Kaja Ziomek-Nogal of Poland was the runner-up in 37.831 seconds.
Kim and Ziomek-Nogal wanted the additional decimal level to find out the colour of their medals.
This was the second of two girls’s 500m races in Hamar. Kim completed sixth within the first race Friday, her finest efficiency of this season as much as that time. One of the profitable skaters within the girls’s 500m in recent times, Kim had not been capable of match her earlier success till Sunday.
The medal got here on the similar Norwegian rink the place Kim gained bronze on the 2025 ISU World Velocity Skating Single Distances Championships in March.
The ISU will decide quota locations for the upcoming Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics primarily based on outcomes of the primary 4 World Cup occasions. Within the males’s and ladies’s 500m, 1,000m and 1,500m, 21 quota spots can be assigned primarily based on skaters’ World Cup factors rankings, with a most of three skaters per nation.
Kim put herself in eleventh place with 222 factors following her bronze medal. Her teammate, Lee Na-hyun, completed in fourth place general with 254 factors as the highest Korean within the girls’s 500m. Lee completed fourth behind Kim on Sunday and beforehand gained bronze in Salt Lake Metropolis, Utah, in November.
The ISU will finalize the Olympic quota allocations Friday.
