Short Track Seo Yi-ra Wins the 1st Race of the 500m at the 6th World Cup

Jang Seong-woo, runner-up in men’s 1,500m… Mixed relay ‘silver run’

Seo Ira (31, Hwaseong City Hall), the ‘eldest brother’ of the Korean men’s short track team, won a gold medal at the 6th competition of the 2023-2024 International Skating Union (ISU) Short Track World Cup.

Seo Ira recorded a time of 41.451 seconds in the first race final of the men's 500m race held in Gdansk, Poland on the 18th (Korean time), beating Canada's Stephen Dubois (41:467) by 0.016 seconds to win. 카지노사이트

With this, Seo-Ira experienced the joy of winning her first individual event in this season's Grand Prix series.

Previously, Seo Ira ran to the semifinals in the men's 5,000m relay at the 5th competition and missed the finals, but the national team won and won the team's first gold medal this season.

Seo Ira increased her World Cup series gold medal count to two this season.

Seo-Ira, who advanced to the finals in second place after Dubois in the semifinals, faced Dubois again in the finals.

At the start, Dubois, who started in the innermost lane, took the lead, followed by Seo Yi-ra's chase.

In the 500m race, which took four and a half laps, Seo Ira successfully made a comeback with two laps remaining, and narrowly beat Dubois by a sharp push at the final finish line, confirming the gold medal.

Kim Tae-seong (Seoul City Hall, 41.896 seconds), who also reached the finals, finished in 4th place.

In the men's 1,500m final, Jang Seong-woo (Korea University) took second place, while Park Ji-won (Seoul City Hall), who is aiming to win the men's overall title at this season's World Cup, failed to add a medal.

Jang Seong-woo recorded a time of 2 minutes 16.087 seconds in the 1.500m final, losing the gold medal to Canada's Pascal Dion (2 minutes 16.060 seconds) by 0.027 seconds.

Jang Seong-woo, who also won a silver medal in the second 1,500m race of the previous 5th competition, won a medal for two weeks in a row.

Jang Seong-woo's silver medal was also a result of good luck.

Jang Seong-woo, who was running in third place at the end of the race, took the silver medal when Priso Emmons (Netherlands), who was in second place, suddenly fell just before the finish line.

Park Ji-won, who also participated in the finals, rose to second place midway through the race, but was unable to increase her speed and finished in last place, seventh place.