Individual record ice speed spectators ranked 6th in men's 500m in the first round of the World Cup, but current Kim Min-sun ranked 11th and 17th in women's 500m
Nov 16, 2025
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Gyeong-min finished sixth in the men's 500m first race at the 2025-2026 International Skating Union (ISU) World Cup held at the Utah Olympic Oval in Salt Lake City, Utah on the 16th (Korea time). He wrote a personal best of 34.06 seconds.
Starting from the second group in-course, Gu Gyeong-min passed the first 100m section in 9.84 seconds, the 18th-place record among 20 participants, but raised his ranking with a scary hindsight. Kyeong-min is the most anticipated male sprinter who won two ISU Junior World Championships in February last year. Jordan Stoltz of the U.S. won the championship with a time of 33.88 seconds.
In the first women's 500m race held on the same day, Lee Na-hyun (Korea National Sports University) ranked 11th with a personal best time of 37.34 seconds. Lee Na-hyun, who started from the second in-course, cut the first 100m section in 10.58 seconds, the 12th overall record, while the remaining 400m section passed the 11th overall record of 26.76.
Kim Min-sun (Uijeong City Hall), a female sprint sign who competed in the same event, ranked 17th overall with 37.58 seconds. Kim Min-sun is adjusting her pace to boost her condition to its best in February, when the 2026 Milan-Cortina D'Ampezzo Winter Olympics will be held. The gold medal was won by Femke Kok of the Netherlands, who crossed the finish line in 36.48 seconds, while Erin Jackson of the United States (36.87 seconds) and Yukino Yoshida of Japan (36.88 seconds) won silver and bronze medals.
Park Ji-woo (Gangwon Provincial Government), who competed in the women's 1,500m division B (second division), set a new Korean record for the first time in 12 years and ranked sixth. He recorded 1:54:09 to greatly advance the existing record (1:56.04) set by Noh Seon-young in November 2013. In the women's 3,000-meter Division B held the previous day, Park also ranked 13th with a Korean record of 4:02:10.
In the first race of the men's 500m Division B, Kim Joon-ho (Gangwon Provincial Government) ranked second with a time of 34.10 seconds, while Jeong Jae-woong (34:30 in Seoul General) and Cho Sang-hyuk (34:55 in Uijeongbu City Hall) ranked fourth and 10th, respectively. Jeong Hee-dan (Seonsago) was ranked sixth in the women's 500 m division B with a time of 38.01 seconds. In the men's 1,500m, Kim Min-seok, who naturalized to Hungary last year, finished ninth with a time of 1:42.67.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
