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| Kim Min-sun and Lee Na-hyun win gold and silver medals side by side |
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'New Ice Queen' Kim Min-sun (26, Uijeongbu City Hall) won a thrilling gold medal in the main event of the Harbin Winter Asian Games.
Kim Min-sun ranked first among 20 athletes with a time of 38.24 seconds in the women's 500m at the speed skating Oval at the Harbin Hailongjiang Ice Training Center in China on the 9th (Korea time). Junior Lee Na-hyun (21, Hankook University) came in second with a time of 38.33 seconds. Following the previous day's 100m, the South Korean speed duo took to the podium side by side for two consecutive days and smiled brightly.
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Kim Min-sun, who won the silver medal in the women's 100m the previous day by 0.004 seconds with her junior Lee Na-hyun, had a fresh start in the 500m main event. Kim Min-sun, who started in Group 8 out of the total 10 groups, ran the first 100 meters at the fastest speed of 10.46 seconds. Kim Min-sun, who boosted her speed after the middle, was the first to cross the finish line with a time of 38:24. I foresaw a victory.
Following Kim Min-sun, Lee Na-hyun, who started from the 9th group in-course, also worked hard. He passed the first 100m in 10.61 seconds, but showed a brilliant background and passed the finish line with 38:33 seconds, succeeding in winning a silver medal following the gold medal the previous day. China's Tian Luining (38.57 seconds) won the bronze medal.
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Kim Min-sun and Lee Na-hyun, Speed Skating Women's 500m Gold and Silver Medals
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Kim Min-sun, ranked seventh in the world and second in Asia this season, won the bronze medal with a record of 37.93 seconds in the first race of the World Cup in Japan in November last year. In December, the record fell slightly due to equipment issues such as skate replacement at the World Cup in China, but he succeeded in improving his condition by recording 37.47 seconds and 6th place at the most recent World Cup in Canada last month.
Kim Min-sun, who is strong on the big stage, rose to the top of Asia for the first time in her main event, which gave her the nickname 'New Ice Queen', shaking off the disappointment of her first silver medal with 0.004 seconds.
World No. 1 Japanese ace Yoshida Yukino and Inagawa Gurumi missed the Asian Games due to the schedule of the World Cup, and the Korean aces did not miss the good news of the podium. Kim Min-sun, who was seventh in her first appearance at the Sapporo Winter Asian Games in 2017 when she was a student at Seomun Girls' High School, proved her brilliant growth in the first Asian Games race in eight years with a gold medal. Lee Na-hyun also brought the momentum of the gold medal to 500m the day before, as she ranked first in the Final B with a record of 37.44 seconds at the previous World Cup in Canada.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
