Youth Olympics Korea, One Day Before the Closing Ceremony, Today is ‘Empty-Handed’… 7th Place Overall
5th place in curling mixed doubles preliminary round... Ski halfpipe athletes experience finals
On the 31st, one day before the closing of the 2024 Gangwon Winter Youth Olympics (Gangwon 2024), the Korean team failed to add a medal.
The curling mixed doubles team of Lee Chae-won (Sehyun High School) and Lee Ji-hoon (Seoul Physical Education High School) lost 5-7 against the Czech Republic in Group A of the Gangwon 2024 Tournament preliminary round held at the Gangneung Curling Center in Gangwon-do on this day. 안전놀이터
Korea, which lost in the last game of the group stage, finished in 5th place in Group A with 2 wins and 3 losses, failing to advance to the quarterfinals, where it would advance to 2nd place in each group.
Korean curling failed to win a medal in the mixed team event and the mixed double event, ending this tournament empty-handed.
In the game against the Czech Republic on this day, the team of Lee Chae-won and Lee Ji-hoon scored two points in the 7th end when they were down 3-6, trailing by one point, but failed to come back in the final 8 ends.
Group A took first place with Great Britain (4 wins, 1 loss), and second place went to the Czech Republic (4 wins, 1 loss), followed by Canada (3 wins, 2 losses) and Hungary (2 wins, 3 losses).
As a result of the quarterfinals that followed today, the semifinals were condensed into a showdown between the United States and Denmark and Sweden and the United Kingdom.
The semifinals and 3rd and 4th place finals will be held on February 1, the last day of the competition.
In the freestyle ski halfpipe competition held at the Hoengseong Welli Hilli Park Ski Resort, Moon Hee-seong (Seorak High School) and Lee So-young (Sangil Middle School) reached the final stage.
Moon Hee-seong placed 10th in the men's preliminaries and took the last train to the finals, then placed 10th in the finals (43.25 points).
Shin Dong-ho (Eondong Middle School) was eliminated in the preliminaries.
In this event, Luke Harold (New Zealand, 94.25 points) won the gold medal, while Finley Melville Ives (New Zealand, 92.50 points) and Allan Borne (Switzerland, 85.00 points) won silver and bronze medals, respectively.
Soyoung Lee placed 6th in both the women's preliminaries and finals (20.25 points), in which a total of 6 players participated.
China's Liu Yishan (92.25 points) and Chen Jihan (83.75 points) shared the gold and silver medals, and USA's Caitlin Gray (79.25 points) won the bronze medal.
In the Nordic combined team event held at the Alpensia Ski Jumping Center and Biathlon Center in Pyeongchang, Finland, Slovenia, and Italy won gold, silver, and bronze medals, respectively.
Finnish female athlete Minia Korhonen won two gold medals following the individual competition on the 29th.
Nordic combined is a sport that combines ski jumping and cross-country skiing, and Korea did not have any athletes compete in this event.
In the men's ice hockey final held that day, the United States defeated the Czech Republic 4-0 and won the gold medal.
In the 3rd and 4th place match, Finland beat Canada 5-4 and took the bronze medal.
Sweden won the women's ice hockey final, beating Japan 4-0.
The bronze medal went to Germany, which defeated Switzerland 3-1.
With only one day left in the competition, Korea, which maintained 5 gold medals, 6 silver medals, and 4 bronze medals, fell one place from 6th to 7th overall.
The overall leader is Italy with 11 gold medals, 3 silver medals, and 4 bronze medals.
On February 1, Chae-woon Lee (Suri High School) is scheduled to compete in the snowboarding halfpipe, women's singles Ji-ah Shin (Yeongdong Middle School), men's singles Kim Hyun-gyeom (Han Gwang-go), and ice dance team Ji-ni Kim and Namu Lee (Gyeonggi Provincial Skating Federation) will participate in figure skating. Team events, etc. are held. 바카라사이트
The closing ceremony will be held at the plaza in front of the Gangneung Hockey Center Auxiliary Stadium at 8 p.m.