South Korea's male and female short track speed skating players Kim Jianyu and Shen Shixi will miss the men's and women's 500m individual events at the 2025 Harbin Asian Winter Games. A person related to the Korean ice industry said on the 6th: "Kim Jian-woo and Shen Shi-hee, who are in the priority order of individual competition, will focus on the main events of 1000 meters and 1500 meters, relay races, and Kim Tae-sung and Lee So-yeon will participate in the sprint individual competition." ”

Short track speed skating Shen Shixi and Jin Jianyu conducted relay training at the Heilongjiang Provincial Ice Training Center Complex on the afternoon of the 3rd, four days before the opening of the Harbin Asian Winter Games

The Korea Skating Union has qualified for the 2024-2025 international competition through the national representative selection tournament held in April last year. Park Ji-won, Jang Sung-woo and Kim Jian-woo, who won the top three individual all-around in the men's group, Jinquat ri, who won the gold medal at the 2024 World Championships in the women's group, and Choi Min-jung and Shen Shi-hee, who won the top two individual all-around in the national representative selection competition, won the priority qualification for the individual competition and relay race.

According to the selection criteria, the above six athletes can participate in the men's and women's 500m, 1000m and 1500m races at the Harbin Asian Winter Games, but the national team has decided to let Kim Tae-sung and Lee So-yeon participate in the sprint event.

On the afternoon of the 5th, Kumquat Li (right) and Kim Tae-sung gave a thumbs up to the camera during the formal training held at the comprehensive hall of the Heilongjiang Provincial Ice Training Center.

Kim Jianyu fractured his right ankle in November last year and went through the rehabilitation process after being put on the operating table. He believes that since his physical condition has not fully recovered, it is better to concentrate on the main events of 1000m and 1500m than to participate in three events. Shen Shixi, who has good endurance, also believes that it is more advantageous to exert force in the middle and long distance events than in the 500-meter race.

Kim and Shen will also compete in the mixed 2,000m relay, the first medal-winning event in short track speed skating at the Asian Winter Games, so saving power in the sprint is strategically the right thing.

However, Park Ji-won, Jang Sung-woo, Kumquat and Choi Min-jung will compete in the men's and women's 500m, 1000m, 1500m and mixed 2000m relay respectively. Park Ji-won, Jang Sung-woo, Kim Jian-woo, Kim Tae-sung, Kim Jut-ri, Choi Min-jeong, Shim Seok-hee, and Roh Do-hee will participate in the mixed 2000-meter relay event, the first medal of short track speed skating in this competition, and the final of this event will be held on the morning of the 8th, which may produce the first gold medal of this Asian Winter Games.