Lim Hyo-jun (Chinese name Lin Xiaojun) was thrilled to win his first gold medal after naturalizing in China in 2020.
It is at the Men’s 500m Final A of the 5th Competition of the 2022-2023 International Skating Union (ISU) Short Track World Cup held in Dresden, Germany on the 5th (local time). Xiaojun Lin won with a record of 41.329, beating China’s Zhong Yuchen (41.549). In the men’s 5000m relay, he was the last runner of the Chinese team and was the first to cross the finish line, adding one gold medal. 스포츠토토
In an interview with the ISU after the match, Xiaojun Lin said, “I am excited and happy to win the gold medal again after so many years. I put in a lot of effort, and after spending so much time, I won the gold medal.” Since July of last year, he has participated in the competition wearing a five-star pottery on the Chinese national team uniform, and has been sluggish until recently.
On the day Lin Xiaojun won the gold medal for China in the men’s short distance, Korea’s Park Ji-won (27, Seoul City Hall) and Kim Gil-ri (19, Seo Hyeon-go) each won gold medals in the men’s and women’s 1500m second race. Park Ji-won also won the men’s 1000m the day before. Shim Seok-hee (26, Seoul City Hall) won the bronze medal in competition with Kim Gil-li that day.
Choi Min-jung (25, Seongnam City Hall), who won the first gold medal of the season in the first round of the women’s 1500m race the previous day, climbed to the women’s 500m final A and added a bronze medal (43 seconds 343). His rival Susan Schulting (Netherlands) took the gold medal (43.203).
In the women’s 3000m relay, South Korea finished with a bronze medal behind the Netherlands and Canada. Choi Min-jung, Kim Gun-hee, Kim Gil-li, and Shim Seok-hee came forward.