The world's strongest Korean short track speed skating team will win four additional gold medals. South Korea's short track speed skating men's team Park Ji-won, Jang Sung-woo, Kim Jian-woo, and women's team Choi Min-jeong, Kim Jut-ri and Shen Seok-hee will participate in the men's and women's 1000m competition of the 2025 Harbin Asian Winter Games held at the Heilongjiang Provincial Ice Training Center Complex in Harbin from 10 am Beijing time on the 9th, and jointly attack the gold medal.
On the 8th, at the award ceremony of the women's 500-meter short track speed skating final of the Asian Winter Games, Cui Minjing, who won the gold medal, Jin Jili, the runner-up, and Li Suyan, the third runner-up, were taking a group photo.
Starting at 11:55, the South Korean team will participate in the men's 5,000-meter relay and women's 3,000-meter relay, the last event of short track speed skating in this competition. Park Ji-won, Choi Min-jung, and Kim Ji-ri, who have already won 2 gold medals each on the 8th, are looking forward to becoming the 4 champions of this Asian Winter Games.
In the speed skating oval competition at the Heilongjiang Ice Training Center, the "new ice queen" Kim Min-sun will participate in the women's 500-meter speed skating competition at 12 noon. Kim will compete with Kazakhstan's Kristina Silayeva and China's Tian Ruining. On the 8th, in the speed skating women's 100m race, she defeated Kim Min-sun by 0.004 seconds, and South Korea's Lee Na-hyun, who won the championship in an upset, will also challenge for the championship in this event. Lee Na-hyun, who is often an upset in every competition, will challenge for the double title of the tournament.
Lee Na-hyun and Kim Min-sun, who won gold medals in the women's 100m speed skating competition at the Asian Winter Games
Kim Min-sun and Lee Na-hyun will join Kim Eun-seo and Kim Min-ji in the women's sprint team pursuit event to compete with China, Japan and Kazakhstan for medals. In the men's 5,000m speed skating competition held on the same day, South Korea's "living legend" Lee Seung-hoon and long-distance signature Jung Jae-won will attack for gold medal. Lee Seung-hoon, who won seven gold medals at the Asian Winter Games alone, will be aiming for an eighth gold medal.
On the morning of the 5th (local time), speed skater Li Chengxun was training at the speed skating oval field of the Heilongjiang Provincial Ice Training Center
The favorite South Korean women's curling team (Kim Eun-ji, Kim Min-ji, Kim so-ji, Xue Yi-eun, and substitute Xue Yi-ji) will participate in the first day of the round-robin tournament on the 9th - in the curling arena in the Pingfang District of Harbin, facing off against Chinese Taipei and Japan. The Korean men's curling team (Lee Jae-beom, Kim Hyo-joon, Jung Jung-min, team leader Kim Eun-bin, substitute Kim Jin-hoon) will play against the Philippines and Kyrgyzstan. At the Yabuli Ski Resort, about 200 kilometers from Harbin, alpine skier Zheng Dongxuan will challenge for two consecutive titles in the men's slalom event.