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The nation's largest winter sports festival '106th National Winter Sports Festival' wrapped up a four-day battle in Gangwon-do from Feb. 18-21.
Hosted by the Korea Sports Association (Chairman Kim Oh-young), Gangwon-do, Gangwon-do Office of Education, and Gangwon-do Sports Association, the Alpinsky Sign"Jeong Dong-hyun (37, High1)" was selected as the MVP of the competition with 39.68% of the vote (based on the number of effective votes)." Chung Dong-hyun won four gold medals in the competition by taking the top spot in the alpine slalom, compounding, competition and super competition. Chung Dong-hyun said, `I was happy to receive the MVP of the Winter Sports Festival for the first time when I was in the sixth grade of elementary school in 2001, and I'm very honored to receive it again after a lot of time.' `Especially, I remember a lot of times when my father was coaching when I was young. He's not here right now, but I hope you keep watching him work hard for the rest of his career" delivered a touching speech.
A total of 4251 city and provincial athletes, including 2,685 athletes and 1,566 executives, participated in the competition, and Gyeonggi Province won the overall title with 296 medals and 1,498.50 points, while Seoul ranked second overall with 1,097 points and Gangwon third overall with 868.
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Snow sports athletes showed outstanding performance at the Winter Sports Festival held immediately after the Harbin Asian Games. Cross-country Lee Joon-seo (22, Dankook University) won five gold medals in the classic 10km, compound, free 15km, 30km relay, and sprint 1.2km, while Jeon Joon-sang (16, Sindo Middle School) won five gold medals by winning the classic 5km, compound, free 10km, 20km relay, and sprint 1.2km. The growth of promising players was also remarkable. Kang Da-hyun (16, Yeosu Samil Middle School), Choi Bum-keun (16, Busan Ski Association), and Hwang Jun-bin (13, Chadwick Songdo International School) of Ski Alpin won four gold medals in the super competition, rotation, competition and complex. Park Jae-yeon (13, Daegwanryeong Elementary School) and Cho Da-eun (16, Hwasun Jeil Middle School), as well as Park Seo-hyun (16, Seo Hyun-joong) and Lee Tae-sung (13, USC) of speed skating, also won four gold medals. In this competition, 78 multi-crowned kings were produced, including three five gold medals, 12 four gold medals, 16 three gold medals and 47 two gold medals, and nine new competition records were made in speed skating.
The Winter Sports Festival Comprehensive Awards will be held at 3 p.m. on the 25th along with the 71st Korea Sports Council Sports Awards ceremony to be held at Olympia Hall on the first floor of the Olympic Parktel in Seoul.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
