Lim Jong-eon and Shin Dong-min will face off in the quarterfinals of the 1,500m short track speed skating from the first game... Lin Xiaojun said, "A tough match." [the scene of Milan]

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South Korea's men's short track speed skating team Lim Jong-eon (Goyang City Hall) and Shin Dong-min (Hwaseong City Hall) will compete in a group from the first gate of the Olympic qualifying round.

According to the men's 1,500m short track speed skating group for the "2026 Milan-Cortina D'Ampezzo Winter Olympics" announced on the 13th (Korea Standard Time), the two were assigned to Group 5 of the quarterfinals.

In response, Im Jong-eon and Shin Dong-min will compete with Felix Roussel of Canada, Niall Tracy of the United Kingdom, Cantain Percoc of France, and Nicholas Andersman of Austria at the upcoming event at the Ice Skating Arena in Milan, Italy, on the 15th. Lim Jong-eon, who previously won a valuable bronze medal in the 1,000m, will start hunting for his second medal in this competition.

The men's 1500m quarter-final will be given a direct ticket to the semi-finals to the top three players in each group, with three additional players with a good record among the fourth-place finishers in a total of six groups.

Hwang Dae-heon (Gangwon Provincial Office), who aims to win his second consecutive Olympic title as the gold medalist at the 2022 Beijing Games, starts in Group 3. Hwang Dae-heon competes with formidable opponents such as Korean-Hungarian player Moon Won-jun and Shaoang Liu, who naturalized from Hungary to China.

China's Lin Xiaojun (Korean name Lim Hyojun), who won the gold medal for the Korean national team at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games, was in Group 4. Group 4 is expected to be the "Group of Death" with 1,000m gold medalist Jens Pant Bout of the Netherlands, silver medalists Sun Long of China and Andrew He of the United States.

The men's 1,500m event will be held in one day starting from the quarter final and the final.

The women's 1,000m preliminary match to be held on the same day has also been confirmed. Choi Min-jeong (Seongnam City Hall), the star of Korean women's short track speed skating, will compete with Kim Butang (Canada), Kiara Betty (Italy), and Valentina Ashcic (Croatia) in Group 5. Kim Ki-li (Seongnam City Hall) and Noh Do-hee (Hwaseong City Hall) were listed in Articles 8 and 2, respectively.

The women's 1000m qualifying round, with a total of 32 participants, will go straight to the quarterfinals to the second place in each group, with the top four players in each group advancing to the next round as wild cards. The women's 1,000m event will be held only in the preliminary round on the day.

In addition, the semifinals of the women's 3,000-meter relay will be held on the same day. South Korea will compete with Canada, China and Japan for the final ticket in Group 2. If you finish in the second place in the group, you can make the final stage on the 19th.

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