The Korean Paralympic Ice Hockey team advanced to the bronze medal match for the second consecutive Winter Paralympic Games.
The Korean national team, led by coach Han Min-soo, lost 0-11 in the semifinal once morest Canada, the world’s second largest, held today at the National Indoor Stadium in Beijing, China.
On the 8th, Korea, which lost 0-6 in the second leg of the group A preliminary round of this tournament, might not surpass Canada on this day as well.
Korea’s record once morest Canada is 36 matches and 36 losses.
With this, Korea will play the bronze medal match once morest China, which also lost 11-0 to the United States in the semifinals on that day, tomorrow (12th) at 9pm at the same place.
The Korean Para ice hockey team, which won the first bronze medal in its history at the Pyeongchang Winter Paralympic Games four years ago, is challenging to win medals for the second time in a row.
At the Yanqing National Alpine Ski Center, Sara Choi, the ‘youngest’ national representative of the Korean delegation, made her Paralympic debut.
Sara Choi, who was born in 2003, participated in the women’s tournament with guide runner Yuseong Kim in the visually impaired section on that day and recorded a total of 2:15.24 in the 1st and 2nd rounds, ranking 11th out of 15 contestants (two disqualified).
Shin Eui-hyeon, a Korean Paralympic Nordic skier, placed 8th out of 19 athletes with a record of 42 minutes 50 seconds 6 in the men’s biathlon individual sedentary 12.5 km at the Zhangjiakou National Biathlon Center.
This is Eui-Hyun Shin’s best performance in the biathlon event this year.
Previously, he was 12th in the 6km biathlon sprint and 11th in the middle 10km.
Yoo-min Yoo, who also participated, was ranked 19th (52:11.8), the bottom.
In the Banked Slalom Upper Extremity Disability (SB-UL) match held at Genting Snow Park in Zhangjiakou, Choong-min Lee finished 12th and Park Soo-hyeok finished 14th.
In the lower extremity disability (SB-LL2) category in the same event, Jee-hyuk Lee was ranked 16th with a score of 1:14.39.
Host country China, which harvested 14 gold medals (14 silver, 19 bronze) two days before the closing ceremony, maintained the overall first place, and Ukraine (9 gold, 9 gold, and 1 bronze medal) added 3 gold medals, 2 silver medals, and 1 bronze medal in the biathlon that day. Silver 10·Bronze 6) climbed to second place once more.
Canada (7 gold, 4 silver, 10 bronze) was pushed back to 3rd place.
The Korean delegation has not yet won a medal for this tournament.
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