Lee Chae-woon, who is trying to win two gold medals, warms up for the main event halfpipe preliminaries and ranks sixth
Feb 12, 2025
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Lee Chae-woon scored 43.75 points in the men's halfpipe preliminaries for snowboarding at the 2025 Harbin Winter Asian Games at Yaburi Ski Resort in China on the 12th. Finished the qualifying round in 6th place out of 12 players.
Lee Chae-woon won the gold medal in slopestyle on the 8th. He scored the highest score among the seven finalists (one abstained) with a high of 90 points in the first to third periods in the slopestyle final.
The main event of Lee Chae-woon, who has already won the gold medal, is halfpipe. He won the 2023 FIS World Championship Snowboard Men's Halfpipe with the youngest record (16 years and 10 months) and became the first Korean ski and snowboarder to win the World Championship.
He also won two slopestyle-halfpipe gold medals at the 2024 Gangwon Youth Winter Olympics (hereinafter referred to as Gangwon 2024).
Lee Chae-woon finished the preliminary round as if he was warming up lightly. The team will play in the final round on Wednesday. In the halfpipe qualifying round, the higher score of the two performances is used as the player's performance. In the final round, which will continue on Thursday, the rankings will be determined based on the highest points of each player.
Meanwhile, in the preliminary round, Kim Gun-hee (Siheungmae High School) ranked first overall with 78 points earned in the first period. Lee Ji-oh (Yangpyeong High School) finished third (69.75 points) and Kim Kang-san (Kyung Hee University) finished fifth (59.75 points).
In the women's preliminary round, Lee Na-yoon (62.25 points), Choi Seo-woo (45.25 points), and Heo Young-hyun (38.25 points) were ranked 9th. Usually, in the half-pipe event international competition, some people will go through the preliminary round to reach the final, and eight people will make it to the final in this competition.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
