Ice speed Jeong Jae-won wins gold medal in the 5th mass start of the World Cup Seunghoon Lee 13th place
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Ice speed Jeong Jae-won
Jeong Jae-won (23, Uijeongbu City Hall), a long-distance speed skating star, took first place in the mass start of the 5th World Cup.
Jaewon Jeong won Bart Swings (Bart Swings) with a record of 7 minutes 42.35 seconds in the men's mass start of the 5th competition of the 2023-2024 International Skating Union (ISU) Speed Skating World Cup held at the Utah Olympic Oval in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA on the 27th (Korean time). He crossed the finish line first, beating Belgium (7 minutes 42.40 seconds).
Jaewon Jeong won the gold medal with 60 sprint points.
Jaewon Jeong is ranked 4th (215 points) in this season's World Cup men's mass start ranking.
Jeong Jae-won, who was in the mid to late stages of the race and was conserving his stamina, rose to third place with the last lap remaining.
Jeong Jae-won, who increased his speed after Swings, took the lead by securing the inside course on the curved road, and maintained first place by sprinting on the last straight road.
Veteran Lee Seung-hoon (Alpensia), who also competed, took 13th place with a time of 7 minutes 43.03 seconds.
Meanwhile, Lee Na-hyun (Nowon High School) ranked 15th in the first women's 1,000m race with a time of 1 minute 15.31 seconds. 19가이드03