▲ A video of Cha Min-gyu's match


Minkyu Cha won the silver medal in the men's 500m speed skating at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.



Mingyu Cha took second place in the men's 500m speed skating event at the Beijing Winter Olympics held on the 12th at the National Speed ​​Skating Stadium in Beijing, China with a time of 34.39.



Cha Min-gyu, who also won a silver medal in this event at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics, won silver medals in two consecutive competitions.




The gold medal in this event went to Gao Tingyu, who set an Olympic record of 34.32 seconds.



The bronze medal was won by Morishige Wataru in 34.50.



Kim Jun-ho (Gangwon Provincial Office) finished the competition in 6th place with a time of 34.54.



Mingyu Cha, who started on the out course, finished the first 100m in 9.64 in 9.64.



It was the fastest time ever run by Gao Tingyu at 9.42.



Cha Min-gyu, who ran with Marek Kania, finished the remaining 400m section in 24.75 seconds, recording a total of 34.39 seconds for the 500m.



Although he was slightly short of his personal record of 34.03, he achieved a valuable result by winning a silver medal in two Olympic competitions.




In the 2021-2022 season, Cha Min-gyu performed somewhat sluggishly, such as not being in the top 5 in four World Cups, but once again showed off his strong side on the big stage.



He also surprised the ice skating world with an unexpected silver medal in Pyeongchang 2018.



At that time, the difference from the first place player was only 0.01 seconds.



Again, the gap with No. 1 Gao Tingyu was only 0.07 seconds.



While maintaining second place, Cha Min-gyu's culmination of medals was the last winning contenders, Laurent Dubreuil and Shinhama Tatsuya.



If these two performed better than Cha Min-kyu, then Cha could go down to 4th place.



However, as there was one false start, the starting speed of the two was rather slow, with Dubreuil in 4th place and Shinhama in 20th place, so Min-gyu Cha's silver medal was confirmed.



Until that day, Korea had recorded 1 gold medal, 2 silver medals, and 1 bronze medal.



This is the second medal in speed skating after the bronze medal of Kim Min-seok in the 1,500m on the 8th.