The first sister of the Korean short track speed skating women's team, Kumquat Ri, has been a powerhouse on the world stage since she was a teenager. Since Seo Hyun's high school days, she has been evaluated not only in Korea but also in the world as having no opponent in her age group.

On the 8th, in the women's 1500m short track speed skating final of the Asian Winter Games, Kumquat Li was very happy after winning the gold medal.

Kumquat has won the triple crown at the 2023 International Skating Union (ISU) Junior Speed Skating World Championships. However, the youth stage is a bit too small for her, so the "female high school student" Kumquat Li also emerged on the adult stage. She finished fourth in the women's category of the 2022-2023 International Skating Union (ISU) World Cup in her senior debut season. In the women's 1500m races at the second and fifth ISU World Cups, she defeated the world's top athletes and won the gold medal.

After a successful debut season with her unusual physical strength, Kumquat has become a world-class player that almost no one can beat. She topped the women's category at the 2023-2024 World Cup.

On the 8th, in the women's 1500m short track speed skating final of the Asian Winter Games, Kumquat was galloping

Choi Min-jeong, who had previously led the Korean women's team, took a break for the season on the grounds of regrouping, and Kumquat became the new ace of the Korean women's short track speed skating. There is no complacency in kumquats. Regardless of the big competition or small competition, she did her best and went all out.

Kumquat won five titles at the 2025 Winter Universiade in Turin last month, winning gold medals in each of the competitions she competed in, showing a desire to win like no other. The same is true for the first Asian Winter Games stage in his life - the 2025 Harbin Asian Winter Games. Kumquat said that he will win gold medals in all five events participating in the Asian Winter Games, showing his ambition to be different. This is rare in the Korean sports world, where modesty is a virtue.

On the 8th, in accordance with his commitment, Kumquat Li contributed to the South Korean team's gold medal in the mixed 2000m relay race, the first medal competition of the Harbin Asian Winter Games short track speed skating held in the comprehensive hall of the Heilongjiang Provincial Ice Training Center in Harbin. And in the women's 1500m final held on the same day, she calmly won the championship and won the second gold medal.

On the 8th, at the women's 500-meter award ceremony of the Asian Winter Games, the Taiji flag was being raised. In the competition of the day, Choi Min-jeong, Kumquat Ri, and Lee So-yeon swept the medals.

In the women's 500m final of the third medal competition, Kumquat lost to teammate Choi Minjing and won the silver medal. Although the dream of the five-crown goal was shattered in advance, it did not frown.

In the women's 500m race, Choi Minjing, Kumquat Li, and Lee So-yeon swept the podium of the event together, which is of greater significance. "I'm glad to win the women's 1500m race, which I want to win the most. Although I was worried about the 500m race, I was happy to be on the podium with my sisters. Kumquat said with a smile: "Three Tai Chi flags were raised at the award ceremony, and my heart was beating. "I am not frustrated by not being able to achieve the goal of five crowns.

"It's nice to win gold in both the women's 1,500m and mixed relays," Kumquat said. I want to win the gold medal again in the women's 3000m relay tomorrow. ”

On the 8th, at the women's 1500m short track speed skating award ceremony of the Asian Winter Games, Kumquat posed with the gold medal

When asked about the source of her explosive strength, Kumquat said, "People around me think that [being short] has no strength, but I do a lot of weight training and I do hard cycling training in overseas training. If you train hard, you will be confident that you will start a good game tomorrow. ”

"My mom will come to see the competition in person, and I'm glad to see me win the gold medal in front of my mom," Kumquat said. ”