Cheol-in, born in 1988, did it! Team pursuit! 9 most medals in the game, and 1st place alone
Feb 11, 2025
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The men's speed skating team consisting of Lee Seung-hoon, Jung Jae-won (24, Uijeongbu City Hall), and Park Sang-eon (23, Korea National University) won a silver medal after China (3:45.94), with a time of 3:47:72 in the men's team pursuit held at the speed skating Oval at the Harbin Heilongjiang Ice Training Center in China on the 11th (Korea time).
Team pursuit is a race in which three athletes race eight times on the 400m track. Rank by the record of the last player to cross the finish line among the three. The three players' one-body chemistry is absolutely important.
With China's 5,000m gold, silver, and bronze medalists ranked first with 3:45:94, the Korea-Japan match was held in Group 3. At the center of Harbin, Lee Seung-hoon, a veteran player born in 1988, showed brilliant teamwork with his juniors who were born in the 2000s. Lee Seung-hoon pushed his juniors from behind and encouraged them to cheer up.
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Fourteen years ago, he won three gold medals in men's 5,000m, 10,000m and mass start at the 2011 Astana-Almaty competition, and won a team pursuit silver medal. Eight years ago at the 2017 Sapporo Games, he won the men's 5,000m, 10,000m, team pursuit, and mass start, setting the record for the most medals (8), alongside short track Kim Dong-sung (gold 3, silver 3, bronze 2).
The years when a 20-year-old college student became the breadwinner of 37 have changed, but neither his sincere personality nor his solid skills have changed.
On the 9th, he ranked fourth among the 16 athletes with a time of 6:43:43 in the men's 5,000m, and missed the '9th medal' by 0.89 seconds, but he was calm. Although he missed the medal, the 12th generation, the 2000-year-old's back-seam race, and the superhuman spurt, which led to faster lap times in the background, were enough to impress. "I'll do my best for the rest of the game."," he said with a smile.
With his juniors in the last race of this competition, which will probably be the last Asian Games, he ran a race of his own.
"I'm old enough to retire, but I'm still playing because it's a tough long-distance event."I'll have fun with a comfortable mind and win a medal regardless of color."I finally kept the promise of the iron man.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
