Golden sprint, successful! Short track Kim Ki-li, two-time world tour champion Choi Min-jeong also performed in the 1500m mixed relay

Nov 24, 2025

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The Korean men's and women's short track speed skating team won three gold medals, one silver medal and one bronze medal on the last day of the third short track world tour of the International Skating Union (ISU) 2025-2026.

Kim Ki-li and Choi Min-jeong (Seongnam City Hall) of the Korean women's short track team took the lead in the medal harvest. Kim Ki-li won the gold medal in the women's 1500m final in Gdansk, Poland, on the 24th (Korea time), crossing the finish line first with a time of 2:30:610. Choi Min-jeong (2:30:656), who also reached the final, won the silver medal with a time of 0.046 seconds behind Kim Ki-li. Kim Ki-li saw an opportunity in the rear at the beginning of the final race, where seven players participated, and rose to first place in the 7th lap and then fell to third place in the second half, but after rising to second place in the 13th lap, he took the lead in the last lap and harvested the gold medal. Choi Min-jeong also collected a silver medal by crossing the finish line in second place after taking a break from fourth place until lap 13.

Kim Ki-li and Choi Min-jeong recorded 2:40.155 in the mixed relay final, where they worked with Lim Jong-eon (Roh Won-won) and Lee Jung-min (Seongnam City Hall), beating the Netherlands (2:40.224). With the mixed relay victory, Kim Ki-li won two gold medals following the women's 1,500m gold medal, and Choi Min-jeong dug her first gold medal in this competition.

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Choi Min-jeong also crossed the finish line with a time of 43.773 seconds in the women's 500m final, winning the bronze medal after Sandra Felzebur (Dutch, 43.295) and Corinne Stodar (U.S., 43.406). Following the mixed relay gold medal, Choi Min-jeong won three medals, including the women's 1500m silver and the women's 500m bronze. Choi Min-jeong said through her management company All That Sports "First of all, I think it's fortunate that I finished the game without injury. There was something unfortunate about the women's relay yesterday, but I was happy to win the gold medal in the mixed relay together. I want to make up for the shortcomings of the women's relay and show better performance. Also, I won a medal in the 500m for the first time in a long time, and I think it was a competition that confirmed the possibility"He expressed his feelings after the third tournament, and "As we only have the last four tournaments left on the world tour, we will do our best to show you what we have prepared as planned."He also expressed his determination for the fourth competition.

The men's national team, which failed to announce the gold medal in the individual event, saved its pride by winning the 5,000-meter relay. The men's national team, in which Lee Joon-seo, Lee Jung-min (Seongnam City Hall), Shin Dong-min (Korea University), and Lim Jong-eon worked together, led the race for the 39th time in the 44th lap, and with a time of 7:07:098, beat China (7:14.517) and Italy (7:16.683) far away and engaged in a Golden Race".

This article was translated by Naver AI translator.