37-year-old Lee Seung-hoon
37-year-old Lee Seung-hoon
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The race was spectacular. Korean speed skating legend Lee Seung-hoon (37) of Alpensia won the World Cup gold medal for the first time in seven years with a last-minute spurt that seemed to forget his age.
In the men's mass start of the ISU Speed Skating World Cup 5th event held in Poland on the 24th (Korea time), Lee Seung-hoon recorded 7:48:05 to win the title with 60 points. The mass start, which runs 16 laps of the 400-meter track (6,400 meters in total), gives 5·3·1 points to the first to third place in the 4·8·12 laps, and 60·40·20 points to the first to third place in the final rankings, respectively, so the first player to cross the finish line will win the title.
In the beginning of the race, Lee accumulated physical strength in the rear. Athletes started racing in earnest from the end of the 15th lap, and Lee advanced to the outside from the first curve of the final lap, beating over Shomu Sasaki of Japan and Ripio Wenger of Switzerland, who were competing for the lead. Lee was the first player to cross the finish line, widening the gap with the athletes who were following him with all their might in the final curve line. His first World Cup gold medal in more than seven years since the mass start of the fourth competition of the 2017-2018 World Cup held in Salt Lake City, the U.S. in December 2017. Lee smiled with clenched fists. With 60 points, he ranked 10th in the World Cup this season (166 points). Bart Hulberf (27) of the Netherlands has 224 points at the top. Lee is the only player who is not from Europe within the top 10.
Lee Seung-hoon is known for his pride in Korean long-distance speed skating. From the 2010 Vancouver Olympics to the 2022 Beijing Olympics, he won two gold medals and one silver and three bronze medals, holding the record for the most medals (6 medals) in the Korean Olympics along with shooting Jin Jong-oh (4 gold, 2 silver) and archery Kim Soo-nyeong (1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze). At the Harbin Winter Asian Games on the 11th, Jung Jae-won and Park Sang-eon collaborated for team pursuit silver medals to set the record for the most medals in Korea's history (9 medals, 7 gold, 2 silver) in the Asian Games.
She also announced her prospects for a mass start medal at the Milan and Cortina Olympics next year. Mass start is an event where there are many unexpected variables as multiple skaters run at the same time, such as short track speed skating. There is a good chance that Lee will be on the podium in his fifth Olympics, depending on race operation and circumstances. Although he is in his late 30s, he easily beat Sasaki, who was 17 years younger than him, to show off his robust performance. No Korean sports athlete has won a medal in all five Olympic Games yet 카지노. Shooting legend Jin Jong-oh won a medal for four consecutive times from the 2004 Athens Games to the 2016 Rio Games, but failed to win a medal in the 2020 Tokyo Games.
In the second women's 500-meter race, Lee Na-hyun (20), a two-time winner of the Harbin Asian Games, ranked fourth with a time of 38.15 seconds. Kim Min-sun (26) of the U.S. ranked sixth with a time of 38.22 seconds. Erin Jackson (33, 37.81 seconds) of the U.S. topped the list. Schijanner Swilting (28) of the Netherlands, who won three Olympic gold medals in short track speed skating, finished second with a time of 37.92 seconds this season.