South Korea’s Lim Jong-eon (Goyang City Hall) and Shin Dong-min (Hwaseong City Hall) have been drawn into the same quarterfinal heat in the men’s 1,500 meters in short track speed skating.
They will skate in Heat 5 on the morning of Feb. 15 at the Milan Ice Skating Arena in Italy, alongside Felix Roussel (Canada), Niall Treacy (Britain), Quentin Fercoq (France) and Nicholas Anderman (Austria). The top three finishers in each heat advance to the semifinals, along with the three fastest fourth-place finishers across the six heats.
Hwang Dae-heon (Gangwon Provincial Office), the 2022 Beijing Olympic gold medalist, will compete in Heat 3 for a semifinal spot against Moon Won-jun (Hungary), a Korean-born naturalized skater, and Shaoang Liu (China), a Hungary-born naturalized skater, among others.
Lin Xiaojun (Korean name Lim Hyo-jun), the 2018 PyeongChang Olympic gold medalist, was placed in Heat 4 with Andrew He, Jens van ’t Wout (Netherlands) and Sun Long (China).
The men’s 1,500 will be completed the same day, with the quarterfinals, semifinals and final all scheduled.
Draws were also released for the women’s 1,000-meter preliminaries, which will be held the same day.
Choi Min-jeong (Seongnam City Hall) will skate in Heat 5 against Kim Boutin (Canada), Chiara Betti (Italy) and Valentina Aschicic (Croatia).
Kim Gil-li (Seongnam City Hall) will race in Heat 8. Noh Do-hee (Hwaseong City Hall) will compete in Heat 2, including against Hanne Desmet (Belgium).
A total of 32 skaters in eight heats will start the women’s 1,000. The top two in each heat advance to the quarterfinals, along with the four fastest third-place finishers across all heats. Only the preliminaries will be held that day.
South Korea’s women will also skate in the women’s 3,000-meter relay semifinals that day, racing in Semifinal 2 against Canada, China and Japan. The top two teams advance to the final on Feb. 19.
* This article has been translated by AI.
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