The Korean Team Returns Home After Achieving its Best Ever Performance with Four Medals
The Korean team returned home after winning 4 medals (2 silver and 2 bronze) at the 2023 Erzurum Winter Games and ranking 13th, a record high.
Korean Sports Association for the Disabled said on the 15th, “The Korean athletes from the Winter Depic Games returned to Korea yesterday and held a disbanding ceremony at Incheon International Airport.”
“A total of 52 athletes were dispatched to this competition, and we participated in 4 events and won 2 silver medals and 2 bronze medals, ranking 13th overall and achieving our highest performance ever,” said Woo Soo-min, head of the team. 카지노사이트킹
“There were many difficulties during the competition, but we “I am grateful to the players who did their best,” he said.
In this competition, Korea won silver medals in the men’s curling team (Yoon Soon-young, Kim Deok-soon, Jeong Jin-woong, Kim Min-jae, Jeong Jae-won) and the curling mixed duo (Yoon Soon-young and Kim Ji-soo), as well as the men’s snowboarding (Choi Yong-seok) and cross-country skiing women’s team sprint (Kim Gwan and Lee Seon-ju) won a bronze medal and ranked 13th in the medal rankings.
This is the best result ever, far exceeding the original goal of one silver medal.
Korea failed to win a medal at the 2015 Khanty-Mansiysk Games, where it participated for the first time, and won a bronze medal (16th in medal rankings) in women’s curling at the 2019 Valtellina-Balciavenna Games.
The Deaflympics is the largest international all-around competition for hearing-impaired athletes and, like the Olympics, is held every four years.
This competition was scheduled to be held in 2023, but was postponed by a year due to location circumstances and held this year.