The South Korean delegation won gold medals in the snowboard men's halfpipe final and the women's figure skating singles event the day before the conclusion of the 2025 Harbin Asian Winter Games, successfully achieving the goal of second place overall. As of 6 p.m. on the 13th, South Korea ranked second in the medal table with 14 gold, 14 silver, and 13 bronze medals, five gold medals ahead of Japan (9 gold, 10 silver, and 14 bronze) in third place. On the 14th of the closing ceremony, four gold medals will be awarded in ice hockey and curling, so the rankings will not change.
Kim Chae-yeon performed in the women's single free skating competition at the Harbin Asian Winter Games on the 13th.
South Korea's 13th gold medal of the Asian Winter Games was won by snowboard men's halfpipe athlete Kim Kun-hee. On the 13th, Kim Kun-hee was canceled due to strong winds in the snowboard men's halfpipe final held at Yabuli Ski Resort, which is about 200 kilometers away from Harbin City, China, and South Korea's Kim Kun-hee, who ranked first with a score of 78 points in the preliminaries, locked up the gold medal.
South Korea's women's figure skater Kim Chae-yeon (Kim Chae-ran), a bronze medallist at the 2024 World Championships, won the gold medal at the 2025 Harbin Asian Winter Games, beating Japan's "world's strongest" Kaori Sakamoto. On the 13th, in the women's figure skating single free skating competition held at the Heilongjiang Provincial Ice Training Center Complex in Harbin, Kim Chae-yeon scored 79.07 points (TES) and 68.49 points (PCS), with a total score of 147.56 points. She finished with a total of 219.44 of 71.88 in the short program, beating Kaori Sakamoto (211.90).
On the 13th, Kim Kun-hee, who won the gold medal in the men's snowboard halfpipe final of the Asian Winter Games held at Yabuli Ski Resort, held a Taiji flag and smiled.
South Korea's men's singles signature athlete Cha Jun-hwan will challenge for the championship in the free skate competition on the afternoon of the 13th. The Korean women's biathlon team, consisting of Russian naturalized athletes Avakumova and Ko Eun-jeong, and Japanese-born South Korean athletes Maria Abbe and Jung Joo-mi, won the silver medal in the women's relay of 4×6km. In the race held in Yabuli, they finished second after China (1:29:6.3) with a time of 1:29:27.3.
On the 11th of this month, Avakumova, who won the first Asian Winter Games gold medal in the history of Korean biathlon in the women's 7.5km sprint race, won her second medal at the Asian Games. This is the first time that a Korean biathlete has won two medals in a single Asian Winter Games. This is also the first time in 26 years that the Korean biathlon team has won two or more medals at the Asian Winter Games in Gangwon Province (two bronze medals) since the 1999 Asian Winter Games in Gangwon Province.
Naturalized Russian player Avakumova
The Korean team of Choi Doo-jin, Kang Yoon-jae, Kim Sung-yoon, and Jung Min-sung finished fourth in the biathlon men's 4×7.5km relay with a time of 1:28:22.5. The South Korean men's ice hockey team, which is aiming for the gold medal, lost to Japan 3-4 in the semifinals after a penalty shootout, and will enter the bronze medal battle with the Chinese team on the 14th. The Korean women's ice hockey team also lost 6-0 against Japan in the second round of the finals, casting a shadow over the medal race.