"Ahn Hyunsoo is over."' Kim Yun-ji has won five medals, and the single Olympic and Korea Paralympic Games in South Korea are the 'most medals' milestone.

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Kim Yun-ji (20, BDH Paras), who competed at the 2026 Milan/Cortina D'Ampezzo (Italy) Winter Paralympics, won her fifth medal in this competition alone. Including the Paralympics and the Olympics, it is a "new record" for the most medals won by a single Korean athlete.

Kim Yun-ji stood atop the podium with a time of 58 minutes and 23.3 seconds in the women's 20km interval start sit-down at the Tessero Cross Country Stadium in Italy on the 15th (Korea time). It is the second gold medal of the tournament after the 12.5km individual sitting of the biathlon women's individual on the 8th.

In addition, Kim Yun-ji also won silver medals in the cross-country ski sprint, 10km interval start, and biathlon sprint tracking, winning as many as five medals (gold 2, silver 3) in this competition alone. In this competition, he competed in six events, five of which were on the podium.

In both the Olympics and Paralympics, Kim Yun-ji is the first Korean to win five medals in a single competition.

Earlier in the Olympics, Viktor Ahn (Korean name Ahn Hyun-soo) won four medals (gold 3, bronze 1) at the 2006 Torino Winter Games, Kang Sung-guk won four medals (gold 2, silver 2) at the 1988 Seoul Paralympics, and Hong Seok-man also won four medals (gold 1, bronze 3) at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics.

However, while only Ahn Hyun-soo, Kang Sung-guk, and Hong Seok all included relay medals, Kim Yun-ji won five medals only in individual sports, completely rewriting the history of Korean sports.

In particular, Kim Yun-ji became the first Korean female athlete to win a Paralympic gold medal in the biathlon women's individual sedentary event, and added a milestone of being the first Korean athlete to win a gold medal in the women's 20km interval start event.

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