“From the beginning of the season, the goal was to win the overall championship.”
Park Ji-won (27, Seoul City Hall), the ‘Korean ice skater’, had only one goal. overall win.
Park Ji-won recorded 1:25:359 in the men’s 1,000m final at the 6th event of the 2022-2023 International Skating Union 카지노(ISU) Short Track World Cup held in Dordrecht, the Netherlands on the 13th (Korean time), crossing the finish line in first place and winning the gold medal has obtained
Park Ji-won, who was in 3rd place with one lap left to go to the finish line, increased her speed on the last lap and rose to 1st place, winning the championship.
In the men’s 5,000m relay event held on the same day, the Korean team added a gold medal.
The Korean national team, which included Park Ji-won (Seoul City Hall), Lim Yong-jin (Goyang City Hall), Lee Dong-hyeon (Uijeongbu Guangdong High School), and Kim Tae-seong (Dankook University), crossed the finish line in first place with a time of 6:47:048 and won the gold medal.
Park Ji-won, who also won the men’s 1,500m event on the 11th, finished the tournament by winning three gold medals in the last World Cup this season.
He won 14 gold medals and 4 silver medals in the six World Cups held this season.
Park Ji-won, who scored a total of 1,068 World Cup ranking points, ranked first in the men’s individual overall rankings of the 2022-2023 ISU World Cup and won the ‘Crystal Globe’, which is awarded to the season’s overall winner.
Park Ji-won is the first recipient. Starting this season, in celebration of the 25th anniversary of the World Cup, the ISU is awarding the ‘Crystal Globe’ trophy to the male and female overall winners based on the results of the 1st to 6th World Cup competitions.
Park Ji-won said through the Korea Ice Skating Federation, “From the beginning of the season, her goal was to win the overall. “I’m so happy to have achieved it,” she said.
She also explained, “She tried to be confident and play how she wanted to. She performed well because her body moved automatically in every situation.”
Meanwhile, in the men’s 500m final held on the same day, Lim Yong-jin won a silver medal.
In the women’s 1,000m 2nd race final, Kim Gil-ri (Seo Hyeon-go) won the silver medal.
The Korean national team will return home via Incheon International Airport on the 14th.