Halfpipe Lee Seung-hoon, Freeski's first Asian Games gold medal, Moon Hee-sung → Women's team leader Yoo Jin-do is also harvested

Feb 08, 2025

 Halfpipe Lee Seung-hoon, Freeski's first Asian Games gold medal, Moon Hee-sung → Women's team leader Yoo Jin-do is also harvested
Lee Seung-hoon



 Halfpipe Lee Seung-hoon, Freeski's first Asian Games gold medal, Moon Hee-sung → Women's team leader Yoo Jin-do is also harvested
Moon Hee-sung
Lee Seung-hoon (Seoul Ski Association) became the first Korean freestyle skier to win a gold medal at the Winter Asian Games.

Lee Seung-hoon won the gold medal with 97.5 points in the men's freestyle ski halfpipe final at the 2025 Asian Winter Games held at Yaburi Ski Resort in China on the 8th. Lee Seung-hoon's gold medal is the first gold medal by South Korea as a Pristian ski event in the Asian Games.

Freestyle skiing is an event that shows rotation and jumping, and the freeski halfpipe is an event that ranks by scoring aerial smoke such as rotation and jumping on an inclined semi-cylindrical slope.




Lee Seung-hoon is a Korean Frisky halfpipe sign. At the age of 17, he ranked 16th out of 23 in the preliminary round of this event at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, and also won a halfpipe bronze medal at the FIS Friski World Cup in Calgary, Canada, in February last year. He also reached the final round of the FIS World Cup held in Aspen, Colorado on the 3rd.

 Halfpipe Lee Seung-hoon, Freeski's first Asian Games gold medal, Moon Hee-sung → Women's team leader Yoo Jin-do is also harvested
Jang Yu-jin
The only medal in the history of Korean freestyle skiing was a silver medal won by Choi Jae-woo in the men's mogul during the 2017 Asian Winter Games in Sapporo.

Following Lee Seung-hoon's gold medal in the halfpipe on the day, Moon Hee-sung (Seolak High School) also won the bronze medal with 88.5 points. In the women's event, Jang Yu-jin (Korea University) won the bronze medal with 85 points, ranking third after China's Li Fang Hui (95.25 points) and Zhang Kusin (89.25 points).






This article was translated by Naver AI translator.