Lee Seung-hoon won the overall championship at the 77th National Men’s and Women’s Overall Speed Skating Championships. yunhap news
Lee Seung-hoon (34, IHQ), a Korean speed skating male long-distance veteran, showed off his strength by reaching the top of the domestic competition.
Lee Seung-hun was the fastest at the men’s 10,000m with a time of 14:06:05 at the ’77th National Men’s and Women’s Comprehensive Speed Skating Championships’ held at the Taereung Ice Rink in Seoul on the 28th. She placed third in the men’s 1500m with a time of 1:51.66.
The day before, Lee Seung-hoon rose to first place in the final rankings, which included the men’s 5000m (1st place) and 500m (5th place) results. Jeong Jae-won (21, Uijeongbu City Hall) was beaten by a narrow gap in the overall score. Jung Jae-won placed second in the men’s 5000m, fourth in the 500m, first in the 1500m and second in the 10,000m.
Yang Ho-jun (17, Uijeongbu City Hall) was ranked third overall. In the comprehensive championships, long-distance runners compete in the men’s and women’s 500m, 1500m, 5000m, men’s 10,000m, and women’s 3000m, and then add up their results to determine the final ranking.
In the women’s division, Kang Soo-min (19, Korea University) won the overall championship. She placed first in the women’s 1500m with a time of 2:06:33 and second in the 5000m with a time of 7:57:67.
Cha Min-gyu (left) and Kim Jun-ho (Gangwon Provincial Office), who won the overall first place at the 49th National Men’s and Women’s Speed Skating Sprint Competition. yunhap news
Cha Min-gyu (29, Seoul general) reached the top in the men’s division of the ’49th National Men’s and Women’s Sprint Speed Skating Championships’ held at the same place on the same day. Cha Min-kyu is a sprinter who won silver medals in the men’s 500m at the 2018 PyeongChang and this year’s Beijing Winter Olympics.
On this day, Cha Min-gyu gave first place by 0.01 second to Kim Jun-ho (27, Gangwon-do Office) with a time of 35 seconds 330 in the men’s 500m second race. However, in the second race of the 1000m, he came in first with a time of 1:11:15. Cha Min-kyu took second place in the first race of the 500m and first place in the first race of the 1000m the day before and took first place overall.
Kim Jun-ho rose to first place in the first 500m race the day before and the second race that day. However, in the second race of the 1000 m, he was pushed to 8th place and missed the overall victory. Kim Jun-ho did not win a medal at the Beijing Olympics, but this season, he won the men’s 500m at the fourth round of the International Skating Union (ISU) Speed Skating World Cup.
In the women’s division, veteran Kim Hyeon-young (28, Seongnam City Hall) won the overall championship, while Kim Min-seon (23, Uijeongbu City Hall), the ‘new ice queen’, did not participate. In the sprint championships, sprinters compete in the first and second races in the men’s and women’s 500m and 1000m, respectively, to determine the overall ranking.