'Empress of Ice and Ice' Kim Min-seon (24, Uijeongbu City Hall) won the championship by changing the women's 500m record of the National Winter Sports Festival held by 'Empress of Ice' Lee Sang-hwa (retired).
Kim Min-sun set a new record of 37 seconds 90 in the 104th National Winter Sports Festival pre-game speed skating women's general section at the Taereung International Ice Rink in Seoul on the 27th, beating Kim Hyun-young (Seongnam City Hall, 38 seconds 97) with a large gap of more than 1 second to win the gold medal. occupied.
Kim Min-sun beat her previous record of 38 seconds 10, set by Lee Sang-hwa in her 97th event in 2016, by 0.20 seconds.
Kim Min-seon won all the women's 500m in the 1st to 4th World Cups held since November last year, and in particular, in the 4th competition, she approached Lee Sang-hwa's world record (36.36 seconds) with a personal record of 36.96.
Recently, at the 31st Winter Universiade held in Lake Placid, New York, USA, she continued her rise by winning three gold medals, including a win in the women's 500 m.
In the men's 500m, Kim Jun-ho (Gangwon Provincial Office), the winner of the 4th World Cup, won with a new tournament record of 34.93 seconds.
In the men's 5,000m, veteran Lee Seung-hoon (IHQ) won the gold medal with a time of 6:40:49.
(Photo = Yonhap News)