Promising ice skater Koo Kyung-min (Pangok High School) won the gold medal in the men’s 500m at the 2024 International Skating Union (ISU) Speed Skating Junior World Championships.Koo Kyung-min ranked first among 43 athletes with a time of 35.55 seconds in the men’s 500m race held at the YS Arena in Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, Japan on the 9th.He passed the first 100 meters in 10.02 seconds, 4th place overall, but won the gold medal with a strong back.Second place went to Japan’s Hirose Yuta, who crossed the finish line in 35.57 seconds, and third place went to Japan’s Gunji Isa, who recorded 35.65 seconds.
Gyeong-min Gyeong-min is Korea’s next-generation ice speed short-distance ace.He won a surprise victory in the men’s 500m at the 50th National Men’s and Women’s Sprint Speed Skating Championships held in December last year, beating Korea’s leading sprinter Kim Jun-ho (Gangwon Provincial Office). In the women’s 500m held on the same day, Jeong Hee-dan (Seonsago), the silver medalist in the women’s 500m at the 2024 Gangwon Winter Youth Olympics, won a silver medal.He followed Dutchman Angel Dahlemann (39.12) with a time of 39.55.Dahlemann, a three-time gold medalist at the Gangwon Winter Youth Olympics, swept the women’s 1,500m on this day, winning 슬롯게이밍 two gold medals in one day.