Emperor Park Jiwon clashes again!→Rookie Im Jong-eon who is disqualified for the penalty is ranked first in men's 1,500m and No Do-hee in women's 1,500m
Apr 07, 2025
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On the 7th, the Korea Skating Union hosted the first short track national team selection competition in the 2025-2026 season at Mokdong Indoor Ice Rink. If the national flag is worn through this competition, the short track world tour series of the International Skating Union (ISU) in the 2025-2026 season, the world championships, and the 2026 Milan-Cortina D'Ampezzo Winter Olympics will be held.
In this competition, men's ace Park Ji-won (Seoul City Hall), Jang Sung-woo (Korea University), Hwang Dae-heon (Gangwon Provincial Government), and Kim Gun-woo (Sports Toto) participated, while world No. 1 Kim Ki-li (Seongnam City Hall), Shim Suk-hee (Seoul City Hall), Lee So-yeon (Sports Toto), and Kim Gun-hee (Seongnam City Hall) participated in the competition for the national flag, drawing great attention.
In the 1,500-meter women's quarterfinal match on the 7th, Kim Ki-li, Shim Suk-hee, Noh Do-hee, and Lee So-yeon all passed at the top of each group and reached the semifinals. In the men's division, Park Ji-won, Jang Sung-woo, Kim Gun-woo, and Hwang Dae-heon advanced to the semifinals without major unexpected events in the quarterfinals.
An upset occurred in the men's semi-finals. Park Ji-won, who is considered a leading candidate for the men's semi-final Group 3 match, was disqualified due to the penalty code S1 (mainly changing the lane from out to in). Park Ji-won lost balance after colliding with Lee Kyu-ho (Korea National Sport University) on the last lap of the semifinals, and later failed to reach the final due to a penalty. Park Ji-won was also eliminated in the 2024-2025 national team selection competition, finishing at the bottom of the group due to a collision with Hwang Dae-heon in the 500m semi-final. Jang Sung-woo and Hwang Dae-heon reached the final without difficulty. In the women's team, Kim Ki-li and Shim Suk-hee also passed first in the semifinals and reached the final.
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It was Im Jong-eon (Roh Won-won) who took the first place in the men's 1,500m in the final without Park Ji-won. Lim Jong-eon, a promising player who is considered the future of short track and has already won a number of junior competitions, was the first to cross the finish line with a time of 2:25.599 after a solo run from the beginning. Hwang Dae-heon came in second with a time of 2:26.141, and Jang Sung-woo came in third with a time of 2:26.258.
The first selection contest will be held for three days from the 7th to the 9th, and the second selection contest will be held from the 12th to the 13th. The overall ranking will be determined by summing the ranking scores of each of the three individual events of 500m, 1000m, 1,500m, and the top 24 men and women in the first competition will advance to the second competition, and the final short track national team players will be selected by summing up the overall players of the two competitions.
Through this selection, a total of 16 national teams, including eight men's and eight women's, will be formed, and the top three men's and women's individual competitions, including the Olympics, will be given priority. For the women's team, Choi Min-jeong (Seongnam City Hall) was automatically selected for the national team by winning a gold medal at the 2025 ISU World Short Track Championship, so only seven top performers will be selected for the national team.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
