Korea fails to win medal at Short Track World Tour in Netherlands

Skaters compete within the semifinals of the ladies’s 3,000-meter relay on the Worldwide Skating Union Quick Observe World Tour occasion on the Optisport Sportboulevard in Dordrecht, the Netherlands, Saturday. EPA-Yonhap

Korea didn’t produce any podium end on the primary day of medal races on the last Worldwide Skating Union (ISU) Quick Observe World Tour occasion of the season within the Netherlands.

Nations are vying for quota locations on the 2026 Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics primarily based on outcomes at 4 World Tour competitions this season, and Korea won’t doubtless earn a most three spots within the males’s 500 meters after failing to win any medal within the distance throughout the World Tour.

Rim Jong-un and Hwang Dae-heon had been eradicated within the quarterfinals on the Optisport Sportboulevard in Dordrecht, the Netherlands, on Saturday (native time), whereas Shin Dong-min was knocked out of the repechage section.

Olympic quota locations will likely be allotted primarily based on the three finest outcomes out of 4 in every distance on the 4 ISU World Tour competitions.

For each women and men, there are 32 quota locations up for grabs within the 500m and 1,000m, and 36 quota locations for the 1,500m. The boys’s 5,000m relay and ladies’s 3,000m relay will every supply eight quota locations, and the combined 2,000m relay occasion could have 12 quota locations.

Every nation can earn a most three quota locations per particular person occasion and one quota place per relay occasion. Groups can every register three males and three girls for particular person races, and 4 males and 4 girls for the relays. For the combined relay, nations which have at the very least two male and two feminine skaters already certified in particular person races will likely be given precedence.

On the 2014 Sochi Winter Video games, Korea missed out on a quota place within the males’s 500m and the lads’s 1,000m. Korea was represented totally in each occasion because the host nation of the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics, however then solely had two skaters every within the males’s and ladies’s 500m on the 2022 competitors in Beijing.

The ladies’s 500m last in Dordrecht is scheduled for Sunday, as Korea will attempt to earn its second medal of the World Tour following Choi Min-jeong’s bronze in Gdansk, Poland, every week in the past. Choi and Kim Gil-li have made it to the quarterfinals in Dordrecht.

In races aside from the lads’s and ladies’s 500m, Korea will doubtless earn most quota locations, although it failed so as to add to its medal tally Saturday.

Within the males’s 1,500m, Rim and Lee Jeong-min could not make it out of the semifinals, whereas Shin, the one Korean within the last, completed sixth.

Choi and Kim didn’t survive the semifinals within the girls’s 1,000m. Their girls’s 3,000m relay group, which additionally included Shim Suk-hee and Noh Do-hee, completed fourth behind the Netherlands, Italy and the USA within the last.