'Awesome' An 18-year-old girl named 'Korea Day → dislocation → fracture again' finally wrote Korea's first history! Yoo Seung challenged the 'Gold medal of dreams' at 3:30 a.m. on the 10th, and succeeded in advancing to the final round of Big Air [Milan Olympics]

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Following the surprise silver medal in the men's parallel competition by Korean snowboarder Kim Sang-gyeom (37, High1), will a medal explode in snowboarding again. Yoo Seung-eun (18, Sungbok High School), a Korean woman's "genius snowboard hopeful," is the first Korean player to advance to the final round of the women's big air for snowboarding and challenge miracles.

Yoo Seung-eun scored a total of 166.5 points in the women's big air preliminaries for the 2026 Milan-Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Olympics held at Lvigno Snow Park in Italy on the 9th (Korea time).

With this, Yoo ranked fourth out of a total of 29 qualifiers, earning a ticket to the final round given to the top 12. Yoo Seung-eun is the first Korean player to advance to the final round of this event.

Snowboard Big Air is an event that determines the ranking based on scores that are scored after jumping off a steep slope, showing aerial techniques, and landing.

The number of rotations in the air, the difficulty of catching snowboards by hand, and the stability of landing are factors that lead to scores.

At the Milan Olympics, all preliminary participants excluded the lowest score from the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd try scores, and the top 12 players went to the final stage. The final round will be held from 3:30 a.m. on the 10th.

On this day, Yoo Seung-eun started in the 17th order out of 29 players in the first period. He did his blind jumping technique, looking back and turning three times, neatly in the first period, as well as in the second and third periods. The landing was also stable.

In the first period, the backside double-cock 1080 mute (the action of leaping on the back with the front edge of the board and rotating 1080 degrees in the air) and in the second period, the front side double-cock 1080 indie (the action of leaping forward with the back edge of the board and rotating 1080 degrees in the air) were all perfectly used. In the third period, he successfully performed a backside double cock 1260 mut (a movement in which he leaps on his back and rotates 1260 degrees in the air while holding the edge in front of the board), drawing cheers.

Yoo Seung-eun scored 80.75 points in the first period, 77.75 points in the second period, and 88.75 points in the third period. The score of 88.75 was the third highest among all the players who participated on the day. In the third period, the jump height was 5.5 meters, the jump was 24 meters, and the jump time was 2 seconds.

In the end, Yoo Seung-eun scored a total of 166.50 points in the first and third periods, excluding the lowest second period, and made the final stage in fourth place.

Yoo Seung-eun was 5.75 points behind Joey Sadowski-Nut (172.25 points in New Zealand), who advanced to the final, 4.75 points behind last year's world championship champion Murase Kokomo (171.25 points in Japan), and 0.5 points behind third-place Mia Brooks (167.00 points in England).

Yoo Seung-eun is a promising Korean snowboarder. He also won a silver medal in the 2023 International Ski Federation (FIS) Junior World Championships Big Air and a silver medal in the third World Cup Big Air in the 2025-26 season. Yoo Seung-eun was the first Korean to win a medal in the Snowboard World Cup Big Air.

Yoo Seung-eun's past year has been in turmoil. I had a hard time as I suffered a series of injuries such as ankle ankle fracture, elbow dislocation, and wrist fracture. Still, Yoo Seung-eun did not fall down. After successful rehabilitation, he won the silver medal in the World Cup. At that time, the score difference was only 0.75 points with Onitsuka Miyabi (Japan), the winner of the tournament.

Yoo Seung-eun, who also passed the preliminary round in fourth place at this Olympics. Depending on the condition on the day of the final, you can expect a medal. Will Yoo Seung-eun be able to make another miraculous page in Korean snowboarding history.

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