South Korea at the 2014 Winter Olympics

South Korea at the 2014 Winter Olympics
IOC code	KOR
NOC	Korean Olympic Committee
Website	www.sports.or.kr (Korean) (English)
in Sochi
Competitors	71 in 13 sports
Flag bearer	Lee Kyou-hyuk (opening[1][2] and closing)[3]
Medals Ranked 13th	Gold Silver Bronze Total 3 3 2 8
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
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South Korea competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia from 7 to 23 February 2014. The team consisted of 71 athletes and 49 officials. This marks an increase of 25 athletes from four years prior.^[4] Originally 64 athletes were named to the team but reallocations brought the final team size to 71 athletes.^[1]

South Korea left Sochi with a total of 8 medals (3 gold, 3 silver, and 2 bronze), the lowest in its Winter Olympics since 2002; female athletes won seven of the medals. With Pyeongchang being the host city of the 2018 Winter Olympics, a Korean segment was performed at the closing ceremony.

Medalists

The South Korean delegation on parade at the opening ceremony

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
01 ! Gold	Lee Sang-hwa	Speed skating	Women's 500 metres	000000002016-02-11-000011 February
01 ! Gold	Cho Ha-ri Kim A-lang Kong Sang-jeong Park Seung-hi Shim Suk-hee	Short track speed skating	Women's 3000 metre relay	000000002016-02-18-000018 February
01 ! Gold	Park Seung-hi	Short track speed skating	Women's 1000 metres	000000002016-02-21-000021 February
02 ! Silver	Shim Suk-hee	Short track speed skating	Women's 1500 metres	000000002016-02-15-000015 February
02 ! Silver	Kim Yuna	Figure skating	Ladies' singles	000000002016-02-20-000020 February
02 ! Silver	Joo Hyong-jun Kim Cheol-min Lee Seung-hoon	Speed skating	Men's team pursuit	000000002016-02-22-000022 February
03 ! Bronze	Park Seung-hi	Short track speed skating	Women's 500 metres	000000002016-02-13-000013 February
03 ! Bronze	Shim Suk-hee	Short track speed skating	Women's 1000 metres	000000002016-02-21-000021 February

Alpine skiing

According to the quota allocation released on 27 January 2014, South Korea has qualified a total quota of five athletes in alpine skiing.^[5]

Biathlon

Based on their performance at the 2012 and 2013 Biathlon World Championships South Korea qualified 1 man and 1 woman.^[6]

Bobsleigh

Two-man

* – Denotes the driver of each sled

Cross-country skiing

According to the quota allocation released on 27 January 2014, South Korea has qualified a total quota of two athletes, each of them will compete only in classical events.^[5]

Curling

Based on results from 2012 World Women's Curling Championship and the 2013 World Women's Curling Championship, South Korea has qualified their women's team as one of the seven highest ranked nations.

• Women's Event – 1 team of 5 athletes
• Kim Ji-sun
• Lee Seul-bee
• Shin Mi-sung
• Gim Un-chi
• Um Min-ji

Final round robin standings

Country	Skip	W	L	PF	PA	Ends won	Ends lost	Blank ends	Stolen ends	Shot %
Canada	Jennifer Jones	9	0	72	40	43	27	12	14	86%
Sweden	Margaretha Sigfridsson	7	2	58	52	37	35	13	7	80%
Switzerland	Mirjam Ott	5	4	63	60	37	38	13	7	78%
Great Britain	Eve Muirhead	5	4	74	58	39	35	9	11	80%
Japan	Ayumi Ogasawara	4	5	59	67	39	41	4	10	76%
Denmark	Lene Nielsen	4	5	57	56	34	40	12	9	78%
China	Wang Bingyu	4	5	58	62	36	38	10	4	81%
South Korea	Kim Ji-sun	3	6	60	65	35	37	10	6	79%
Russia	Anna Sidorova	3	6	48	56	33	35	19	6	82%
United States	Erika Brown	1	8	42	75	33	40	8	5	76%

Round-robin

South Korea has a bye in draws 1, 5 and 9.

Draw 2 Monday, February 11, 9:00 Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final South Korea (Kim) 0 2 0 2 0 3 0 2 1 2 12 Japan (Ogasawara) 2 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 7 Draw 3 Tuesday, February 11, 19:00 Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final South Korea (Kim) 0 1 0 1 0 0 2 0 2 0 6 Switzerland (Ott) 0 0 0 0 2 3 0 2 0 1 8 Draw 4 Wednesday, February 12, 14:00 Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final South Korea (Kim) 0 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 X 4 Sweden (Sigfridsson) 0 0 1 0 3 0 1 2 0 X 7 Draw 6 Thursday, February 13, 19:00 Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final Russia (Sidorova) 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 1 0 X 4 South Korea (Kim) 0 2 0 2 0 0 3 0 1 X 8 Draw 7 Friday, February 14, 14:00 Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final South Korea (Kim) 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 X X 3 China (Wang) 0 3 0 0 3 0 3 2 X X 11

Draw 8 Saturday, February 15, 9:00 Sheet D 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final Great Britain (Muirhead) 0 3 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 3 10 South Korea (Kim) 2 0 0 0 0 2 0 2 2 0 8 Draw 10 Sunday, February 16, 14:00 Sheet A 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final Denmark (Nielsen) 0 0 0 1 0 2 3 0 1 0 7 South Korea (Kim) 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 4 Draw 11 Monday, February 17, 9:00 Sheet B 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final South Korea (Kim) 4 1 0 2 2 0 2 X X X 11 United States (Brown) 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 X X X 2 Draw 12 Monday, February 17, 19:00 Sheet C 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Final Canada (Jones) 0 1 0 2 1 0 1 2 2 X 9 South Korea (Kim) 2 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 X 4

Figure skating

South Korea has achieved the following quota places:^[7] Three athletes were named to the team.^[8]

Athlete	Event	SP		FS		Total
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Kim Hae-jin	Ladies' singles	54.37	18 Q	95.11	17	149.48	16
Kim Yuna		74.92	1 Q	144.19	2	219.11	02 !
Park So-youn		49.14	23 Q	93.83	19	142.97	21

Freestyle skiing

Halfpipe

Moguls

Luge

Based on their performance at the 2013–14 Luge World Cup, South Korea has achieved a total quota of four athletes and a spot in the mixed team relay due to allocation.^[9]

Short track speed skating

Based on their performance at the two World Cup events in November 2013 South Korea qualified a full team of 5 men and 5 women.

Noh Jin-kyu qualified for the team but broke his elbow on 14 January 2014 and will miss the Olympics.^[10] His replacement was named as Lee Ho-suk. Due to a conflict with or lack of support from the South Korean coaches and national short-track administrators, Ahn Hyun-soo, one of South Korea's best skaters, left the Korean team and competed for Russia in these Olympics. He defeated the Korean skaters in all four short track events and the Korean men were completely shut out of medals in these Olympics.

Men

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Cho Ha-ri	1500 m	2:27.629	1 Q	N/A		PEN		Did not advance	19
Kim A-lang	500 m	43.919	2 Q	43.673	3	Did not advance			10
	1000 m	1:31.640	1 Q	1:32.154	3	Did not advance			10
	1500 m	2:22.864	2 Q	N/A		2:22.928	2 FA	PEN	13
Park Seung-hi	500 m	44.18	1 Q	43.392	1 Q	43.611	1 FA	54.207	03 !
	1000 m	1:31.883	1 Q	1:30.801	2 Q	1:30.182	1 FA	1:30.761	01 !
Shim Suk-hee	500 m	44.197	2 Q	43.572	4	Did not advance			14
	1000 m	1:31.046	1 Q	1:29.356	1 Q	1:31.237	1 FA	1:31.027	03 !
	1500 m	2:24.765	1 Q	N/A		2:18.966	2 FA	2:19.239	02 !
Cho Ha-ri Kim A-lang Kong Sang-jeong Park Seung-hi Shim Suk-hee	3000 m relay	N/A				4:08.052	1 FA	4:09.498	01 !

Qualification legend: ADV – Advanced due to being impeded by another skater; FA – Qualify to medal round; FB – Qualify to consolation round; AA – Advance to medal round due to being impeded by another skater

Skeleton

South Korea has qualified two spots in the men's event for the first time in history on its fourth consecutive Olympics.^[11]

Ski jumping

South Korea has received the following start quotas:

Snowboarding

Alpine

Freestyle

Qualification Legend: QF – Qualify directly to final; QS – Qualify to semifinal

Speed skating

Based on the results from the fall World Cups during the 2013–14 ISU Speed Skating World Cup season, South Korea has earned the following start quotas:

On 11 February 2014, Lee Sang-hwa won the gold medal for the women's 500m longtrack speedskating race, having previously won the one at the 2010 Games. She became the first woman since Catriona Le May Doan at the 2002 Games to defend her gold at the event. She became the third woman to win back-to-back golds at the 500m,^[12][13] and hence the first Korean woman to do so.

Men

Women

Athlete	Event	Race 1		Race 2		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Kim Bo-reum	1500 m	N/A				1:59.78	21
	3000 m	N/A				4:12.08	13
Kim Hyun-yung	500 m	39.19	24	39.04	24	78.23	24
	1000 m	N/A				1:18.10	28
Lee Bo-ra	500 m	38.93	20	38.82	21	77.75	20
	1000 m	N/A				1:57.49	35
Lee Sang-hwa	500 m	37.42	1	37.28	1	74.70 OR	01 !
	1000 m	N/A				1:15.94	12
Noh Seon-yeong	1500 m	N/A				2:01.07	29
	3000 m	N/A				4:19.02	25
Park Seung-ju	500 m	39.207	26	39.11	26	78.31	26
	1000 m	N/A				1:18.94	31
Yang Shin-young	1500 m	N/A				2:04.13	36
	3000 m	N/A				4:23.67	27

Team pursuit

Athlete	Event	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final
		Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Opposition Time	Rank
Joo Hyong-jun Kim Cheol-min Lee Seung-hoon	Men's team pursuit	Russia (RUS) W 3:40.84	Canada (CAN) W 3:42.32	Final A  Netherlands (NED) L 3:40.85	02 !
Kim Bo-reum Noh Seon-yeong Yang Shin-young	Women's team pursuit	Japan (JPN) L 3:05.28	Did not advance	Final D  Norway (NOR) L 3:11.54	8

See also

• South Korea at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics
• South Korea at the 2014 Winter Paralympics

References

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