Youth Olympics Lee Yun-seung, Freestyle Skiing Men’s Dual Mogul Gold Medal
Korea's 4th gold medal in competition... Second only in skiing and snowboarding
Lee Yun-seung (Songgok High School), the promising star of Korean freestyle ski moguls, won the gold medal in the men's dual mogul event at the 2024 Gangwon Winter Youth Olympics (Gangwon 2024).
Yunseung Lee won the Gangwon 2024 Freestyle Ski Men's Dual Mogul final held at High1 Resort in Jeongseon, Gangwon-do on the 27th, beating Huff Porter (USA) 18-17.
This is the fourth gold medal for the Korean team at this event, following Joo Jae-hee (Han Gwang-go) in the short track men's 1,500m, Jae-hwan Jae-hwan (Sangji Daegwallyeong High School) in the men's bobsled monobob (Single-seater), and Chae-un Lee (Suri High School) in the men's snowboard slopestyle. 온라인카지노
In addition, Korea became the first winner in the freestyle skiing event at the Winter Youth Olympics.
The silver medal that Lee Yun-seung and Yoon Shin-i (Bongpyeong High School) won the day before in the dual mogul mixed team competition was the first prize, and they even won gold in one day.
In skiing and snowboarding, at the 2016 Lillehammer Games, Kim Magnus of cross-country skiing won two gold medals and one silver medal, and Jeong Yu-rim of snowboarding women's halfpipe won a bronze medal
Lee Chae-woon and Lee Yun-seung won gold medals in this competition.
Lee Yun-seung and Yoon Shin-i added silver medals.
Moguls is a type of freestyle skiing that involves going down a course with a series of mounds and then showing aerial skills from a jump.
Among them, dual moguls is a sport in which two people run side by side and compete to win.
In the general Winter Olympics, only mogul competitions where one person competes one at a time have been played, but dual moguls are scheduled to be introduced starting with the 2026 Milan/Cortina d'Ampezzo Games.
Lee Yun-seung, born in 2006, is a promising player who has been playing for the national team since 2021, and ranked third in the men's dual moguls at the International Ski Federation (FIS) Europa Cup in February 2022.
At the opening ceremony of the Gangwon 2024 Games, he took an oath pledging to do well as a representative of the athletes, and won a silver medal in the mixed team event and a gold medal in the individual event.
Lee Yun-seung was evaluated as having the potential to win ahead of this competition, but was not even mentioned as a gold medal candidate, but he showed off his good condition and achieved a 'surprise victory'.
Lee Yoon-seung, who advanced to the semifinals as first place in the group stage on this day, defeated Gia Cohen (USA) 20-15 in the semifinals to advance to the finals, and won a thrilling one-point victory over Porter in the finals.
Lee Yoon-seung said in an interview with the Olympic Information Service, "I have been practicing for a year and have been waiting for this competition all season.
All I can say is that it is good.
It was a competition held in my home, and my family and friends were watching.
I tried to compete while believing in myself. "he said.
“Today’s final was my best game,” he said.
“I will continue to work hard and show my best performance.”
Following Lee Yun-seung and Huff, Japan's Takuto Nakamura won the men's dual mogul bronze medal.
Meanwhile, Yoon Shin-i and Moon Seo-young (Sinsa Middle School) competed in the women's dual mogul match held at the same venue that day, but neither of them passed the preliminaries.
In this event, Elizabeth Lemley (USA), silver medalist Lottie Rosie (Australia), and bronze medalist Abby McLarnan (USA) won gold, silver, and bronze medals, respectively.
Lemli won two gold medals in the competition following the mixed team competition.