Min-seon Kim and Hyun-jun Ahn (right)
Jaewon Jeong ranked 24th in the 1,500m Kang Soo-min ranked 20th in the women’s 1,500m race.
Korean men’s speed skater Ahn Hyun-jun (Seongnam City Hall) failed to enter the top 10 in the men’s 1,500m at the 2024 International Skating Union (ISU) Speed Skating World Championships.
Hyunjun Ahn crossed the finish line in the men’s 1,500m event held at the Olympic Oval in Calgary, Canada on the 19th (Korean time) with a record of 1 minute 44.93 seconds and ranked 15th out of 24 participating athletes.
Jeong Jae-won (Uijeongbu City Hall, 1 minute 48.64 seconds), who also competed, was pushed to last place, while Kang Su-min (Korea University), who competed in the women’s 1,500m, ranked 20th with 1 minute 57.43 seconds.
In Korea, Kim Min-seon (Uijeongbu City Hall) won a silver medal in the women’s 500m at this competition.
After completing the competition, the men’s and women’s national teams will return to Korea on the 20th to prepare for the 2024 ISU Speed Skating All-Round & Sprint Championships to be held in Inzell, Germany in March.
Meanwhile, Jordan Stoltz, a 19-year-old rookie from the United States, won the gold medal in the men’s 1,500m in 1 minute 41.44 seconds and enjoyed the joy of winning three gold medals in the competition, following wins in the 500m (33.69) and 1,000m (1:06.05). .
Stoltz swept the men’s 500m (34.10), 1,000m (1:07.11), and 1,500m (1:43.59) at the world championships in which he participated for the first time last year, winning the ‘Triple Gold Medal’ for two consecutive years. 토토사이트