'First-First-First-First-First' An 18-year-old high school girl made a Korea! Yoo Seung-eun, snowboarding and big air 銅 at the first Olympics... Korea's 2nd Medal [Milan Olympics]

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Korean snowboard hopeful Yoo Seung-eun (18, Sungbok High School) has written the first history of winning a medal in her first Winter Olympics.

Yoo Seung-eun scored a total of 171.00 points in the women's big air final at the 2026 Milan-Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Olympics held at Lvigno Snowpark in Italy on the 10th (Korea time).

As a result, Yoo Seung-eun, who ranked third among the 12 finalists, won the bronze medal. This is the first Olympic medal in a big air event in Korean snowboarding history.

The snowboard big air event was first introduced at the 2018 PyeongChang competition. The participants will come down the steep slope, jump off a large jumping platform, and determine the rankings by scoring their aerial skills. 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.

Yoo Seung-eun won her first-ever silver medal at the Spring Snowboard World Cup last year, drawing attention. This was the first time for a snowboard Big Air female athlete to compete in the Olympics, and she even won her first medal, proving her talent.

Yoo Seung-eun is also the first to win an Olympic medal in snow sports. In addition, it is Korea's second medal after Kim Sang-gyeom (37, High1), the oldest member of the team, won a silver medal in the parallel snowboarding competition on the 8th, and it is also the first time that a snowboarding medalist has appeared in a single Olympics.

Last year's world championship winner Kokomo Murase (179 points from Japan) won the gold medal, and the silver medal was won by Joey Sadowski Sinut (172.25 points from New Zealand).

The color of the medal was decided in the last third period. The 18-year-old Korean high school girl flew well even though it was her first final. Yoo Seung-eun, who has performed a backside triplecock 1440 degrees four times in the air since the first period, also showed a 1440 degree rotation in the second period, ranking first with 171 points.

As such, I was able to determine the difficulty of the skill in the third period by looking at the players ahead. Joey Sadowski, who played first in the third period, recorded 172.25, and Yoo Seung-eun secured the bronze medal. Japan's Kokomo then scored 89.25 points with a huge jump to finish the match with 179.

The ending was unfortunate. Yoo Seung-eun was satisfied with the bronze medal in the third period, as she fell and threw away in the process of landing.

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