Choi Min-jeong X Kim Gili X Kim Min-sun, Harbin, please! Harbin Winter Games Decision Ceremony on the 24th
Jan 23, 2025
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The Korean Sports Council (Chairman Kim Oh-young) will hold the 'Decision Ceremony for the 9th Harbin Winter Asian Games' at Olympic Parktel Olympia Hall in Songpa-gu, Seoul at 3 p.m. on the 24th.
A total of 200 people, including ice skating (short track, figure), ice hockey, snowboarding, biathlon, curling, and ski mountaineering, and Yoo Seung Min, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Yoo In-chon, executives of the Korea Sports Association, provincial sports association, and participating sports organizations, will attend the decision ceremony, led by Choi Hong-hoon, the new chairman of the Korea Ski and Snowboard Association.
Starting with the opening speech of Yoon Sung-wook, Secretary-General of the Korea Sports Association, it will be held in the order of a congratulatory speech by Yoo In-chon, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, an exploration by Choi Hong-hoon, an introductory video screening of the team, and a short-term award. After the decision ceremony, doping and life guidance education will be followed.
The Harbin Winter Asian Games, which will be held for the first time in eight years since the 8th Sapporo Games in 2017, will feature 1,300 athletes from 34 countries, the most in the history of the Winter Asian Games, from the 7th to the 14th of next month in Harbin, China, to compete for 64 gold medals in 6 sports and 11th division events. South Korea will send a total of 223 athletes in six sports (149 athletes, 52 sports executives, and 22 headquarters executives).
South Korea ranked third overall after host Kazakhstan (32, silver 21, bronze 17) and Japan (13, silver 23, bronze 16) with 13 gold medals, 12 silver, and 13 bronze medals at the 7th Astana-Almaty Games in 2011, and ranked second overall after host Japan (27, silver 21, bronze 26) with 16 gold, 18 silver, and 16 bronze medals at the 8th Sapporo Games in 2017. The Korea Sports Council's expected overall ranking for this tournament is third to fourth. Expectations are high on short track, speed, and figure skating, which are traditional strong events. Short track speed skater Choi Min-jeong (Seongnam City Hall), Kim Ki-li (Seongnam City Hall), Park Ji-won (Seoul City Hall), speed skater Kim Min-sun (Uijeong City Hall), figure skater Cha Jun-hwan (Korea University), and snowboarder Lee Chae-woon (Surigo) are expected to compete in gold. The squad is scheduled to depart for Harbin on Asiana Airlines flight OZ339 on the 4th of next month.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
