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'Expiration Legend'Lee Seung-hoon (37, Alpensia) won the silver medal at the World Championship.
Lee ranked second with a time of 7:59.52 at the men's mass start of the 2025 ISU Speed Skating Championships in Hamar, Norway on the 16th (Korea time).
Lee Seung-hoon took the lead again this time. He accumulated his stamina early in the race, then climbed to the lead with one round left before the finish line and rose to the lead in the curved line. It was the same strategy as when he won the 5th ISU World Cup in Poland on the 24th of last month for the first time in seven years. However, in the final straight line, he narrowly missed the gold medal by allowing Andrea Giovanni to turn the tables at the last minute. Lee ranked second with 40 sprint points after Giovanni (7:56.47 with 60 sprint points). Giovanni is the third-ranked player at the Poland World Cup and is likely to compete with Lee Seung-hoon for medals at the Milan and Cortina Olympics next year. Belgium's Bart Svinks (7:56.69 with 20 sprint points) ranked third. Although Lee narrowly missed the gold medal, Lee's ISU World Championship medal is meaningful. After the mass start gold medal in February 2016, he returned to the podium for the first time in nine years and a month.
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Lee Seung-hoon, who was born in 1988 and is 37 years old, has a special season this year. Lee Seung-hoon is a living legend in South Korea's ice skating, having won two gold medals, three silver medals and one bronze medal at four Winter Olympics, from Vancouver in 2010, Sochi in 2014, Pyeongchang in 2018, and Beijing in 2022. Ahead of the fifth Milan Olympics next year, at the age of 37, he broke the record for the most medals (9 medals) by Korean players in the history of the Winter Asian Games by collaborating with his 12th juniors at the 2025 Harbin Winter Asian Games, and won the World Cup gold medal in seven years and the silver medal at the World Championships in nine years at the following international competitions. Five consecutive Olympic medals proved to be not a dream.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
