South Korea’s men’s two-man bobsled teams led by Kim Jin-su and Seok Young-jin were outside the top 10 after the first two heats at the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics.
Kim, with brakeman Kim Hyeong-geun (both from Gangwon Provincial Office), was 12th among 26 teams with a combined time of 1 minute, 51.69 seconds in heats 1 and 2 on Feb. 16 at the Cortina Sliding Center in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy.
The Kim team had raised expectations by finishing fourth in the season’s first World Cup in November on the same Cortina track that is hosting the Olympic races.
They were fifth in the first heat in 55.53 seconds, but slipped to 15th in the second heat with 56.16, dropping in the overall standings.
Seok, with brakeman Chae Byeong-do (Catholic Kwandong University), was 19th in 1:52.50.
Germany swept the top three spots after the first two heats. Johannes Lochner and Georg Fleischhauer led in 1:49.90, followed by Francesco Friedrich and Alexander Schueller in 1:50.70, and Adam Ammour and Alexander Schaller in 1:51.14.
Heats 3 and 4, which will decide the final standings, are scheduled for 3 a.m. on Feb. 18 (Korea time).
* This article has been translated by AI.
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