After four days of racing at the Korean team trial, the Korean skating union announced their official 2022 Olympic team.
By Jackob Savard
Photo: Schaats Foto's
Korea's top short track skaters competed for the 10 spots on their country's Olympic team in a two-phase selection competition where everyone had to compete twice in each distance. Olympic medallists Shim Suk-hee and Choi Min-jeong won the women's ranking, while Olympic medallist and former 500m world champion Hwang Dae-heon took the honours in the men's ranking.
While some members of this team will take part in their third Games like Kwak Yoon-Gy and Shim Suk-Hee, four skaters will have their first Olympic experience in Beijing in 2022 thanks to their performances this weekend.
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Après quatre jours de compétition aux sélections coréennes courte piste, la Fédération coréenne de patinage a annoncé son équipe pour les Jeux olympiques de 2022.
Par Jackob Savard
Photo : Schaats Foto's
Les meilleurs patineurs coréens sur courte piste se sont disputé les 10 places disponibles sur l'équipe olympique de leur pays lors d'une compétition de sélection en deux phases où tout le monde devait s'élancer deux fois sur chaque distance. Les médaillées olympiques Shim Suk-hee et Choi Min-Jeong se sont emparées de la victoire au classement féminin alors que le médaillé olympique et ancien champion du monde du 500m Hwang Dae-heon a remporté les grands honneurs chez les hommes.
Alors que certains membres de cette équipe en seront à leurs troisièmes Jeux comme Kwak Yoon-Gy et Shim Suk-Hee, quatre patineurs vivront leur première expérience olympique à Pékin en 2022 grâce à leurs performances du weekend.
Équipe olympique coréenne 2022 :
1. Hwang Dae-Heon (2e Jeux) 2. Lee Jun-Seo (1er Jeux) 3. Park JangHyuk (1er Jeux) 4. Kwak Yoon-Gy (3e Jeux) 5. Kim Dong-Wook (1er Jeux)
1. Shim Suk Hee (3e Jeux) 2. Choi Min Jeong (2e Jeux) 3. Kim Ji Yoo (1er Jeux) 4. Lee Yu-Bin (2e Jeux) 5. Kim Alang (3e Jeux)
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La deuxième compétition de sélection nationale coréenne pour la saison 2018-2019 a pris fin. Par Jackob Savard Photos: Danny Kim (@dk_st) editées by Carl Savard Les 23 meilleurs patineurs de la première sélection autant du côté des hommes que des femmes (vous pouvez retrouver les résultats ICI) se disputaient les 7 premières positions de cette deuxième compétition pour intégrer l’équipe.
Lim Hyo-jun et Shim Suk-hee dominent
Les gagnants de la première sélection, Lim Hyo-jun et Shim Suk-hee, ont récidivé en continuant leur domination lors de cette sélection. Sans grande surprise, ils intégreront l’équipe 2018-19. De champion junior à membre de l’équipe senior Lee June-seo et Hong Kyeong-hwang qui ont terminé respectivement 2e et 3e lors de ces sélections étaient membres de l’équipe nationale aux Championnats du monde juniors 2018 (vous pouvez lire notre résumé de cette compétition ICI). Ils seront à surveiller en Coupe du monde la saison prochaine.
De l’expérience pour la jeune équipe féminine Une patineuse de 25 ans et une patineuse de 26 ans se joindront à la jeune équipe coréenne. En effet, No Ah-reum et Shin Sae-bom ont terminé au 6e et 7e rang de cette sélection et seront l’équipe. Il est plutôt rare pour la Corée de voir des patineuses de cet âge sur l’équipe nationale.
Les absents Les connaisseurs remarqueront l’absence du champion du monde 2017 Seo Yi-ra qui a annoncé plus tôt cette semaine qu’il prendrait une année sabbatique la saison prochaine. Certains seront aussi déçu de ne pas voir la star montante Li Yu-bin ou l’expérimentée Kim Alang du côté féminin. Kim Alang n’est pas passé au travers de la première sélection alors que Li Yu-bin y était mais n’est pas parvenu à se frayer une place dans le top 7. Équipe masculine complète 2018-2019
The second Korean selection for the upcoming 2018-2019 season in short track as come to an end.
By Jackob Savard
Photos: Danny Kim (@dk_st) edited by Carl Savard
The top 23 skaters from the first selection (you can find the results HERE) were fighting for 7 spots on the national team.
Lim and Shim dominate
The winners of the first selection, Lim Hyo-jun and Shim Suk-hee, continued their domination and won the second competition to confirm their spot on the team.
From world junior champions to national senior team member
Lee June-seo and Hong Kyeong-hwang, who finished 2nd and 3rd this weekend, competed earlier this year at the 2018 World junior championships (you can read our text about it HERE). It will be interesting to see them race on the World cup circuit next season.
Some experience on the traditionally young women’s team
A 25 years old and a 26 years old skater made the team. Noh Ah-reum and Shin Sae-bom concluded the competition respectively 6th and 7th and will join the Korean national team.
Who’s missing?
The 2017 world champion Seo Yi-ra is not on the team as he has decided to take a year off. Some will be sad to see that rising star Li Yu-bin and experimented skater Kim Alang did not make the team. Kim did not make it through the first selection competition while Lee was part of the second selection but did not manage to finish in the top 7.
La première partie de la compétition servant à former l’équipe nationale coréenne courte piste 2018-2019 a pris fin. Shim Suk-hee et Lim Hyo-jun l’ont emporté et sont présentement les favoris pour intégrer l’équipe à l’aube de la deuxième portion de ses sélections, mais rien n’est joué. Les 23 meilleurs doivent maintenant s'affronter pour joindre le top 7.
The first part of the Korean national team selection for the 2018-19 season as come to an end. Shim Suk-hee and Lim Hyo-jun won this first stage of the selection and are presently the favorites to join the team but nothing is played yet as the top 23 now enters a battle for the top 7 spots.
Even though casual sports fans usually check short track speed skating more carefully once every four years during the Olympics, World cup season is worthy of any sports fan’s attention. While during regular season the World cup circuit is a bit more focused on skaters individually, in an olympic season like this year the national pride is definitely the main focus. Countries are battling it out to qualify for as many spots as they can for the Olympics. Even though it is just the beginning of the season, the results of the first leg of the World cup held last weekend in Budapest could be an indicator of the forces that will collide at the Olympic games. Here is a resume of the highs and lows of this action packed competition.
Korea
It would be impossible to talk about this first weekend of competition without starting with the domination of Korea. When it was announced that the 2018 Olympic games would be in South Korea, the entire short track community was excited by the fact that the biggest show on earth would be in a country where short track speed skating is king. Out of twenty available medals, Korea won eleven in this first World cup event. On the men’s side, Hwang Dae Heon and Lim Hyo Jun got on the podium together on every individual distances. On the women’s side, Choi Min Jeong said she was not feeling at her best while Shim Suk Hee got penalised on one distance and fell in another both time battling with Canada’s Valérie Maltais. Still, Choi finishes with four gold medals and Shim won one gold and one bronze. Just thinking of them doing so well without being totally focused and adding that to the men’s results is a scary thought for all the other nations competing against them.
Canada and China
If the historical podium of the sport still places Canada and China in the top three countries alongside Korea, this first competition went smoother for the Maple Leaf than the Middle Kingdom. Canadian athletes were able to gather four medals thanks to Kim Boutin who won silver medals on the 1500m and 1000m. Both relay teams also won a medal with the men’s team offering quite a show coming back from behind to win gold. The women won silver. As for China, Han Tianyu won bronze on the 1000m and the men’s relay team won silver. Chinese fans probably were hoping for more from their stars Wu Dajing and Fan Kexin.
Hungary
The ISU circus was in town this weekend and with the young and talented athletes who are part of the hungarian national team, the local fans were surely hoping for a great show from their favorite stars and they were not disappointed. As always, Liu Shaolin Sándor brought his showmanship qualities to the rink being of every battles and winning gold on 500m Saturday. A risky pass resulting in a penalty may have prevented him from winning another medal, but overall he gave the fans a show. His brother Liu Shaoang did not have the same weekend. He never looked comfortable on the ice and it showed in the results. He collided with Charles Hamelin on the semi-final of the relay, was knocked down by Thibaut Fauconnet in the 1500m final and fell by himself in the semi-final of the 1000m on Sunday. On the women’s side, keep an eye on the young upcoming star Petre Jaszapati.
Netherlands
You can not think of being on the edge of your seat watching short track without thinking of the Dutch Sjinkie Knegt. Once again he was up there with the bests and ends the weekend with the bronze in the 1500m. He did not skate as much from the back this time around but still was efficient. A penalty in the 1000m final prevented him from winning a second individual medal. On the women's side, Suzanne Schulting looked like she had been kept in a cage since last year and was too excited to be out. Her energy will always be part of who she is as a skater but she will have to regroup and pace herself if she wants her enormous talent to shine. She started the competiton with two penalties on the first day and finished the meeting in Budapest with four penalties on four distances.
Great-Brittain
An injury to world champion Elise Christie and a few mishaps from her teammate Charlotte Gilmartin (a few falls and some blades problems) cast a shadow on this first weekend for Team GB. Christie still managed to get on the podium winning bronze on 1000m. As for the men’s team, it is definitely in rebuilding mode.
Other informations
Russia’s women relay team was able to take advantage of their presence in the A final, mainly due to the Dutch team being penalised in the semi-final. They are going home with a bronze medal from Budapest.
Both japanese relay teams competed in the A finals and the men’s ended up finishing third. The japanese program has been on the rise for a few years now. It is probably fair to say their canadian coach Jonathan Guilmette has something to do with this.
Australia sure is not a dominant force in short track speed skating and we definitely need to salute Deanna Lockett for winning the bronze medal in the 1500m.
Italian star Arianna Fontana, who knows a thing or two about getting on a podium, won silver in the 500m.
I am pretty sure we can count on Team France to have a better weekend in Dordrecht following a difficult one in Budapest.
The relay event in Hungary was competed by 18 different countries on the women’s side and 20 on the men’s side of the competition.
43 countries were represented in this first leg of this year’s World cup circuit, an all time high in short track.
