Kim Min-sun, the queen of credibility, starts the new season at the Four Continents Championships on the 15th
Kim Min-sun, the queen of credibility, starts the new season at the Four Continents Championships on the 15th
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'New speed skating queen' Kim Min-sun (25, Uijeongbu City Hall) will begin her new season of international competitions with the 2024-2025 International Skating Union (ISU) Four Continents Speed Skating Championships.
Kim Min-sun will make a powerful start towards the top at the Four Continents Championships held at the YS Arena in Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, Japan from the 15th to the 17th.
He is scheduled to compete in the women's 500m on the 16th and the women's 1,000m on the 17th to confirm the results of his off-season training.
Kim Min-seon trained with her team, Uijeongbu City Hall, and the professional international training team, 'Team Gold', during the off-season.
'Team Gold' is an international training team led by Dutch coaches Johan DeWitt and Jeroen Ritveld, and includes Japan's strongest female middle-distance runner Miho Takagi and China's female middle-distance ace Han Mei.
Kim Min-seok, the 'ice monster' who naturalized from Korea to Hungary this year, is also a member of Team Gold.
Kim Min-sun is known to have focused on training to improve her starting and endurance, which have been pointed out as weaknesses.
Jegal Seong-ryeol, the head coach of Uijeongbu City Hall, said, "I decided that Kim Min-seon needs intensive training overseas to grow further," and added, "You can expect to see a more developed performance in the new season."
The Korea Skating Union, which manages the national speed skating team, also cooperated with Kim Min-sun's overseas training.
The Four Continents Championships is a major international 파워볼 competition in which athletes from the four continents of Asia, America, Africa, and Oceania participate.
After completing the Four Continents Championships, he will move to Nagano, Japan to compete in the first round of the 2024-2025 ISU Speed Skating World Cup, held from the 22nd to the 24th.
Kim Min-sun's goal this season is to reclaim the top spot in the women's 500m.
He ranked first in the women's 500m, his main event, in the 2022-2023 World Cup series, but fell to second place last season behind Erin Jackson (USA).
He narrowly lost first place due to struggling with skating adjustment issues early in the season.
The plan is to sweep the medals from the beginning of this season.
Na-Hyeon Lee (18, Korea National Sport University), a rising star of the Korean national speed skating team, is also a promising prospect.
Inahyun Lee is the top prospect, having set a junior world record of 37.34 seconds in the women's 500m at the 2023-2024 ISU World Cup 5th Competition in January this year.
Recently, she showed great growth by winning the women's 500m event in a domestic competition, beating out leading athletes.
It appears that Inahyun Lee will also engage in a friendly competition with her senior national team member, Minsun Kim.