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A red flag has been turned on for the Korean short track team's journey to the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics.
The Korean national team failed to win a medal in the men's 500m in the fourth round of the International Skating Union (ISU) short track world tour in the 2025-2026 season at Sportbollevar in Dordrecht, the Netherlands, on the 30th (Korea time). Im Jong-eon (Roh Won-won) and Hwang Dae-heon (Gangwon Provincial Office) failed to advance to the semifinals by finishing fifth and sixth in the men's 500m semi-final, respectively, while Shin Dong-min (Korea University) failed to advance to the semifinals.
In the first to fourth rounds of the world tour, where the Olympic quarter is at stake, South Korea did not harvest a single medal for the men's 500m. At the Olympics, the men's 500m, which is an inferior event, is highly likely to secure only two quotas.
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Three of the four world tour results will be added, and a total of 32 tickets for men and women's 500m and 1,000m and 36 tickets for 1,500m will be distributed by country in the highest order. The maximum number of tickets allowed per country is three. Eight teams will be qualified for the men's and women's relays and 12 teams for the mixed relay. Until the third round of the world tour, only two Korean players, Hwang Dae-heon (23rd) and Lim Jong-eon (29th), ranked within the top 32 in the men's 500m rankings. The ISU will inform the national federations of the rankings of the qualifiers for each short track Olympic event and whether they have secured the right to participate in the event.
In the past, at the 2024 Sochi Winter Olympics, he only acquired two tickets for the men's 500m and men's 1,000m. At the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, the men's and women's 500 meters were not qualified for one ticket each.
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In addition, the national team failed to hunt for medals in all events held on the same day. In the men's 1,500m, Im Jong-eon and Lee Jung-min were eliminated from the semifinal, and in the women's 1,000m, both Choi Min-jeong and Kim Ki-li were eliminated in the semifinal, reaching the final B. The women's 3000 m relay finished fourth in the final and failed to win a medal. Fortunately, South Korea succeeded in securing the right to participate by harvesting medals in events other than the men's and women's 500m in the previous world tour competition.
Meanwhile, Canada, which is rising as a short track powerhouse again on the day, showed strength in medals and harvested them. In the women's 1,000m, Courtney Saro crossed the finish line in 1:27.701 to win the gold medal. In the men's 1,500m, William Danji-nu, who won five gold medals in the second competition, took first place with a time of 2:16.600. The men's 1,500-meter runner-up was also named by Felix Roussel with a time of 2:16.670.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
