"Awesome" No. 400 Medalli Korea Kim Sang-gyeom 200 million, and high school snowboarder Yoo Seung 100 million... Rewards of a whopping billions of dollars have been confirmed [Milan Olympics]

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South Korea's snowboard national team Kim Sang-gyeom (High1), who directed an unexpected event at the 2026 Milan-Cortina D'Ampezzo Winter Olympics, and Yoo Seung-eun (Sungbok High School) will receive a billion-dollar reward from the Korea Ski and Snowboard Association.

According to the Korea Ski and Snowboard Association on the 10th, the association will hold a reward ceremony next month to pay 200 million won to silver medalist Kim Sang-gyeom and 100 million won to bronze medalist Yoo Seung-eun. In this competition, Korean ski and snowboarding built a gold tower that produced two single Olympic medalists for the first time in history.

Kim Sang-gyeom won a silver medal in the men's parallel snowboarding competition held at the Lvigno Snowpark in Italy on the 8th (Korea Standard Time), giving the Korean team its first medal of the competition. This is even more meaningful in that it is the 400th medal in the East and Summer Olympics of Korea.

High school student rookie Yoo Seung-eun then won the bronze medal with 171.00 points in the snowboard women's big air final on the morning of the 10th. This is the first Olympic medal in Korean women's snowboarding history and the first victory in a big air event. Previously, the only Olympic medal for Korean ski and snowboarding was silver won by Lee Sang-ho during the 2018 Pyeongchang Games.

Lotte Group has been fully sponsoring for a long time. Lotte, which has been the chairman since 2014, has so far invested more than 30 billion won in ski and snowboarding. Ahead of the Beijing Games in January 2022, the association confirmed the reward rules for 300 million won in gold, 200 million won in silver, and 100 million won in bronze, and set incentives for fourth place (50 million won), fifth place (30 million won), and sixth place (10 million won) outside the medal table.

At the time of the Beijing Games, there were no winners, so it was not paid, but the prescribed amount was delivered as a medalist was born at the Milan-Cortina D'Ampezzo competition.

In addition to the Olympics, the association has consistently given rewards to athletes ranked first to sixth in the World Championships, World Cups, Youth Olympics, and World Junior Championships. The cumulative amount of rewards delivered by the association since 2016 has reached about 1.2 billion won, including 155 million won paid to international competition performers last year.

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