Big Air 銅 → Slope Final! High school girl Yoo Seung-eun tries to snowboard in Korea for the first time on the 17th. [Milan Olympics]

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High school girl snowboarder Yoo Seung-eun (18, Sungbok High School) will challenge Korea's first snowboarding history once again.

Yoo Seung-eun scored a combined score of 76.80 in the women's slope style preliminary round at the 2026 Milan-Cortina D'Ampezzo Winter Olympics held at Lvigno Snow Park in Italy on the 15th (Korea time).

With this, Yoo, who ranked third out of 30, made it to the final round, which is given to the top 12.

Slope-style events evaluate how creative technology is presented by using various objects such as rails and boxes. Rank is determined based on the higher score of the two attempts.

Yoo Seung-eun scored 76.80 points by passing through six sections neatly in the first period of the qualifying round. In the second period, he lost his balance in the beginning and then played the jump lightly without much skill to prepare for the finals. In the first period alone, Yoo Seung-eun ranked third.

Sadowski Sinut of New Zealand (New Zealand) scored 88.08 points in the first place of the preliminary round, and Murase Gokomo of Japan (Japan) of the Big Air gold medal scored 84.93 points.

Yoo Seung-eun, who won the bronze medal in Big Air earlier, will challenge her second individual medal and the first Korean snowboard history in the final, which will continue at 9 p.m. on the 17th.

Yoo Seung-eun won a bronze medal in the women's big air final on the 10th. This is the first medal in the history of Korean women's snowboarding big air and an Olympic medal for snowboarding. In particular, he won an Olympic medal in his first appearance, proving himself to be a next-generation rising star.

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