Park Jiwon, the king of short track, won two men's short track 1,500m gold medals!Jang Sungwoo is → Lin Xiaojun is

Feb 08, 2025

The world's best Korean short track team won the gold medal in the men's 1,500m.

Korean short track team Park Ji-won (Seoul Metropolitan Government) won the gold medal in the men's 1,500m short track final at the Harbin Winter Asian Games in 2025 at the Harbin Heilongjiang Ice Training Center in China on the 8th with a time of 2:16.927.

It was an event for the Korean national team to have enough confidence in the medal. In the past, Kim Ki-hoon won gold medals in Sapporo in 1990, Kim Dong-sung in Gangwon in 1999, and Ahn Hyun-soo in Aomori in 2003. Unfortunately, she did not have a relationship with the 1,500-meter gold medal in the last three competitions. However, the current players were also spectacular. Park Ji-won, world No. 2, Jang Sung-woo (Hwaseong City Hall), and Kim Gun-woo (Sports Toto), world No. 7, all ranked high in the world rankings. The presence of Lin Xiaojun (Im Hyo-jun), who won the men's 1,500m gold medal with the Taegeuk mark in 2018, was the No. 1 target of alert.

In the 1500m semi-finals, one of the fastest players in each group 1st and 2nd and 3rd place in the group will reach the final with a wild card. In the semifinals, Jang Sung-woo competed with Chinese naturalized player Lin Xiaojun (Im Hyo-jun) in Group 2 to advance to the finals. Jang Sung-woo took the lead from the beginning and led by beating Lin Xiaojun and the other players. Lin Xiaojun, who was in third place with three laps to go, sped up and overtook Jang Sung-woo to take the lead. Jang ranked second with a time of 2:25.937, reaching the final.

Park Ji-won and Kim Gun-woo played in the semi-finals in Group 3. Park Ji-won took the lead from the start and kept her position. Kim Gun-woo arranged his physical strength until the second half, maintained his pace, and rose to second place with a last-minute spurt, writing 2:18:00 and 2:18:133 with Park Ji-won to confirm his advance to the finals as first and second place.

In the final, Park Ji-won and Kim Gun-woo started the game from the inside, and Tsai Jiawei, Lin Xiaojun, Jang Sung-woo, Sun Long and Liu Xiaoang were at the starting line of the final. From the beginning, Kim Gun-woo took the lead, and the Chinese players also began to check to continue to come out in the lead. Park Ji-won took the lead with eight laps to go, followed by Sun Long, Liu Xiaoang and Jang Sung-woo.

Park Ji-won kept his position by blocking Sun Loong from trying to force himself out with four laps left. He blocked both the in-course and out-course, shaking off the pursuit of Lin Xiaojun, who came in second, and winning the gold medal with a time of 2:16.927. Jang Sung-woo also crossed the finish line in third place and won the bronze medal.

This article was translated by Naver AI translator.