Choi Min-jeong, the overwhelming short track speed skater, ranked first in all events, including the individual team event of the second world tour

Oct 17, 2025

Choi Min-jeong, the overwhelming short track speed skater, ranked first in all events, including the individual team event of the second world tour
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Choi Min-jeong (Seongnam City Hall), the ace of the short track women's national team, showed off her overwhelming skills by ranking first in both individual and team qualifiers on the second day of the ISU short track world tour from 2025 to 2026.

Choi Min-jeong advanced to the semifinals with a time of 1:31.587 in the women's 1,000m qualifying group 5 at Maurice Richard Arena in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on the 17th (Korea time), beating Florence Brunelli (1:31.658). Choi Min-jeong participated in the women's 3,000m relay quarterfinal Group 3 event with Noh Do-hee (Hwaseong City Hall), Shim Suk-hee (Seoul City Hall), and Kim Ki-li (Seongnam City Hall) to lead the group.

In the fourth group of the mixed 2000m relay quarterfinal with Shin Dong-min (Korea University), Lee So-yeon (Sports Toto), and Lee Jung-min (Seongnam City Hall), he also led the race with extraordinary speed and played a decisive role in passing the top spot in the group.




Other national team players also did well. Kim Ki-li, who won two silver medals in the individual event in the first event, ranked first in the group with a time of 1:32.355 in the women's 1,000-meter preliminary round. Noh Do-hee finished second in Group 2 of the same event qualifying round.

Choi Min-jeong, the overwhelming short track speed skater, ranked first in all events, including the individual team event of the second world tour
In the men's 1,500m quarterfinals, Lim Jong-eon (Roh Won-won), a two-time winner of the first competition, won the group 4th place with a time of 2:16.398 to advance to the semifinals. Lee Jung-min advanced to the semifinals after falling in Group 5 due to a foul by Robert Cruzberg of Latvia. Hong Kyung-hwan (Koyang City Hall), who competed in Group 7, finished second after Stephen Dubois (Canada).

He struggled in the men's 500m, a vulnerable event. Im Jong-eon slipped and fell in the first group of the men's 500m second qualifying round, and was eliminated as he finished second in the group in the qualifying round for the consolation match. Shin Dong-min fell to third place in Group 3, but he ranked first in Group 4 of the qualifying round for the consolation match, saving his chances of advancing to the semifinals. Hwang Dae-heon (Gangwon Provincial Government) reached the quarterfinals with a time of 41.117 seconds in Group 4.




On the 18th, the second day of the competition, the men's 1,000m, women's 500m, 1,500m, and men's 5,000m relay preliminaries and the mixed 2,000m relay semifinals will be held.








This article was translated by Naver AI translator.