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Korean team wins third gold medal in competition after short track and bobsled

Lee Chae-un wins slopestyle gold medal at Gangwon Winter Youth Olympics

Lee Chae-woon (Suri High School), a leading figure in Korean snowboarding, won the gold medal in slopestyle, his first competition, at the 2024 Gangwon Winter Youth Olympics (Gangwon 2024).

Chaewoon Lee won the championship with 96 points in the Gangwon 2024 Snowboard Men's Slopestyle Final held at the Welli Hilli Park Ski Resort in Hoengseong, Gangwon-do on the 25th.

This is the third gold medal for the Korean team at this event, following Joo Jae-hee in the men's 1,500m short track and Jae-hwan Jae in the men's bobsleigh monobob.

Lee Chae-woon, born in April 2006, is the youngest player on the Korean team at the 2022 Beijing Games and has grown into a leading figure in Korean snowboarding after stepping onto the Adult Winter Olympics stage.

At the International Ski Federation (FIS) World Championships in March last year, he won the men's halfpipe as the youngest person ever (16 years, 10 months), becoming the first Korean ski and snowboarder to win a world championships with a gold medal. 카지노사이트

Chaewoon Lee's slopestyle preliminaries on the 25th

This season, they won a silver medal and a bronze medal at the World Cup halfpipe last month, and are recognized as 'world class' at the adult level.

Halfpipe is his main sport, but he also has the skills to compete at the world level in slopestyle and big air. He has been expected to win three gold medals by participating in all three events at Gangwon 2024, which will be held at home, and from the first competition. Won the gold medal.

Snowboard slopestyle is a sport that passes through a course consisting of various objects and jumps such as rails, boxes, waves, and big airs, and is scored and ranked based on criteria such as height, rotation, technique, and difficulty.

In this competition, all participating athletes will perform in the first and second periods in the preliminary round, and the top 10 will advance to the finals and compete for medals in three periods.

In both the preliminaries and finals, rankings are determined based on the highest score among the scores earned by a player in each period as the final score, without averaging or adding up.

Chaewoon Lee is happy after finishing the last period of the finals

Lee Chae-woon, who advanced to the finals in 7th place (58.50 points) in the preliminaries on this day, passed various obstacle sections with ease in the first period of the finals and then showed off four consecutive high-quality round jumps, earning 91.50 points and taking first place overall, dominating the baseline.

In the second period, he attempted to do more than 4 revolutions in the last jump and fell when landing, scoring only 37.50 points. However, in the third and final period, he succeeded in jumping 4 and a half revolutions, further increasing his score to 96 points, completing a 'golden performance'.

Canada's Elie Bouchard took silver and bronze medals, respectively, with 90 points and France's Romain Allemand with 89.25 points.

Chaewoon Lee is scheduled to compete in the big air competition on the 28th and the halfpipe competition on February 1st.

Meanwhile, Lee Dong-heon (Siheung Maehwa High School), who also participated in the men's slopestyle event on this day, finished the preliminaries in 23rd place and did not advance to the finals. 카지노사이트