4-0 win over Italy semi-final
On the 9th, the fifth day of the 2022 Beijing Winter Paralympic Games, the Korean Para ice hockey team defeated Italy and advanced to the semifinals. Wheelchair curling also continued to win two consecutive victories and expressed hope for the semifinals.
The Korean Para ice hockey team, led by coach Han Min-soo, won 4-0 in the playoffs to advance to the quarterfinals once morest Italy held at the National Indoor Stadium in Beijing, China on the 9th.
In the first and second rounds of the group stage, the Korean national team, which lost 1-9 to the world No. 1 USA and 0-6 to Canada, the 2nd place, achieved their first victory in this tournament and advanced to the quarterfinals.
Korean Paralympic Ice Hockey, which enjoyed the thrill of winning the first medal in Paralympic history by winning a bronze medal at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games, is one step closer to winning the medal for the second time in a row.
Korea took the lead in the first period with Dong-Shin Jang’s opening goal, and Seung-Hwan Jeong’s additional goal in the second period kept the lead, and in the third period, Jong-Kyung Lee and Dong-Shin Jang scored in succession, putting the wedge in the game.
Korea will play a ‘return match’ with Canada, an ice hockey powerhouse, in the semifinals to be held at the same location at 1:05 pm (Korean time) on the 11th.
Wheelchair curling win 8-6 over England
Wheelchair curling ‘Team Yoon-Jung Jang’s Confession’ also won two consecutive wins that day, continuing their hopes for the quarterfinals.
The ‘Team Yoon-Jung Jang Confession’, which consists of Jae-hyeok Jang (51), Eun-gu Yoon (53), Jeong Seong-hoon (44), Seung-nam Ko (37), and Hye-jin Baek (39, Uijeongbu Rolling Stone), won 5-2 in the 7th round of the preliminary round once morest Estonia in the morning. In the followingnoon, in the 8th game once morest England, they won 8-6 to run their second streak.
Korea, which won 4 wins and 4 losses in the preliminary round, moved up the ranks to tied for fifth place with Latvia and the United States out of 11 teams.
Korea will play the 9th game once morest the United States at 3:35 pm on the 10th and the last game once morest Sweden at 8:35 pm on the 10th.
Korea has not yet won a medal for this tournament. While the host country, China, maintained first place with 10 gold medals (9 silver and 12 bronze), Canada, which was in third place until the previous day, rose to second place with 7 gold medals (2 silver, 7 bronze). Ukraine moved down one place to third place with 6 gold medals, 8 silver medals and 5 bronze medals.
Reporter Kang Ju-ri