'Korea's First 金' Choi Ga-on received a watch worth '9.5 million won' from Omega [Milan Olympics]

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"Snowboard Queen" Choi Ga-on (Sehwa Girls' High School) received a watch worth 9.5 million won from Omega, the official Olympic timekeeper.

Omega said on the 15th (local time), "We presented the 'Speedmaster 38mm Olympic Edition Timepiece' to Choi Ga-on, the first gold medalist of the Korean team."

The presentation was held at Omega House in downtown Milan, Italy, and Omega Chairman and CEO Reynald Ashleyman delivered the watch to Choi Gaon himself.

Prior to the Olympics, Omega said it would present an Olympic edition to one of the first athletes to win an individual gold medal in the Korean team, regardless of gender. Omega's watch presented to Choi Gaon is on sale for 9.5 million won on Omega's official website.

Choi Ga-on scored 90.25 points in the women's halfpipe final at the Lvigno Snowpark in Italy on the 13th, beating his idol Chloe Kim (88.00 points in the United States). With this, Choi Ga-on wrote a new history of the first Winter Olympics gold medal in Korean ski and snowboarding history. Choi Ga-on, who was born in November 2008, also broke Chloe Kim's record for the youngest gold medal in the event (17 years and 10 months) at the 2018 Pyeongchang Games.

Since the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Omega has delivered the Olympic edition watch to the first gold medalist of the South Korean team. At that time, Jin Jong-oh, who won the gold medal in the shooting 10-meter air pistol, received the watch for the first time.

The men's archery team (Kim Woo-jin, Koo Bon-chan, and Lee Seung-yoon) held the Olympic edition watch in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, and Oh Sang-wook of the men's fencing sabre individual event and Oh Ye-jin of the women's 10m air pistol in the 2024 Paris Olympics.

At the Winter Olympics, Lee Sang-hwa, who won the gold medal in the women's 500m speed skating at the 2014 Sochi Games, won the clock for the first time in a winter event. At the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, Hwang Dae-heon (Gangwon Provincial Government) and Choi Min-jeong (Seongnam City Hall) won their first gold medal, respectively, and became the main characters of the Olympic edition watch.

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