Choi Min-jeong

Choi Min-jeong
nation	South Korea
birthday	9th September 1998 (age 21)
Career
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 2 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 14 × 4 × 1 × JWM medals 2 × 1 × 2 ×
winter Olympics gold 2018 Pyeongchang 1500 m gold 2018 Pyeongchang 3000 m relay  Short track world championships gold 2015 Moscow All-around gold 2015 Moscow 1000 m gold 2015 Moscow 3000 m gold 2015 Moscow 3000 m relay bronze 2015 Moscow 1500 m gold 2016 Seoul All-around gold 2016 Seoul 1000 m gold 2016 Seoul 3000 m relay silver 2016 Seoul 1500 m gold 2018 Montreal All-around gold 2018 Montreal 500 m gold 2018 Montreal 1500 m gold 2018 Montreal 3000 m gold 2018 Montreal 3000 m relay gold 2019 Sofia 3000 m relay gold 2019 Sofia 1500 m silver 2019 Sofia All-around silver 2019 Sofia 1000 m silver 2019 Sofia 3000 m  Short track junior world championships gold 2014 Erzurum 1000 m gold 2014 Erzurum 3000 m relay silver 2014 Erzurum 1500 m bronze 2014 Erzurum 1500 m superfinal bronze 2014 Erzurum All-around
Placements in the Short Track World Cup
Debut in the World Cup November 8, 2014  World Cup victories 40 (including 25 individual wins)  500 m world cup 2. ( 2017/18 )  1000 m world cup 1. ( 2015/16 )  1500 m world cup 1. ( 2014/15 , 2015/16 , 2017/18)
Podium placements 1. 2. 3.  500 meters 3 4th 0  1000 meters 7th 6th 0  1500 meters 14th 4th 0  3000 meters 1 0 0  Relay / team 15th 7th 2
last change: February 10, 2020

Choi Min-jeong (born September 9, 1998 ) is a South Korean short tracker .

Career

Choi first appeared internationally in March 2014 at the Junior World Championships in Erzurum . There she won the bronze medal in the 1500 m superfinal and in the all-around event, the silver medal over 1500 m and the gold medal over 1000 m and with the relay. She ran her first World Cup races in Salt Lake City at the beginning of the 2014/15 season . There she finished second over 1000 m and won her first World Cup victory with the relay. In the further course of the season she won seven other World Cup races and achieved a second place. At the 2015 Short Track World Championships in Moscow , she won the bronze medal over 1500 m and the gold medal over 1000 m, 3000 m, in the all-around event and with the relay. She finished the season in third place in the World Cup over 1500 m and first place in the World Cup over 1000 m. At the beginning of the following season she won in Montreal over 1000 m and with the relay and also took second place in the second race over 1000 m. At the following World Cup station in Toronto , she triumphed over 500 m, 1500 m and with the relay. Also at the World Cup in Nagoya in December 2016 she won over 1000 m, 1500 m and with the relay and in Shanghai over 1500 m and with the relay. At the season highlight of the 2016 Short Track World Championships in Seoul , she won the silver medal in the 1500 m and the gold medal in the 1000 m, in the all-around and with the relay. At the end of the season she took second and first place over 1500 m in Dresden and second place over 500 m and 1000 m in Dordrecht . She won the World Cup over 1000 m and 1500 m and finished fourth in the World Cup over 500 m.

At the beginning of the 2016/17 season, Choi won the 1000 m and relay in Calgary and also finished second in the 1500 m. In Salt Lake City , she won the 1,500 m and with the relay and took second place in the 500 m. In December 2016 she triumphed in Shanghai over 1000 m and with the relay and in Gangneung over 500 m and with the relay. She also came in second place over 500 m in Shanghai and second place over 1000 m in Gangneung. At the 2017 Short Track World Championships in Rotterdam , she finished in four top ten in the individual races and sixth in the all-around event. In February 2017 she won medals in all competitions at the Winter Asian Games in Sapporo (the bronze medal over 500 m, the silver medal over 1000 m and the gold medal over 1500 m and with the relay). She finished the season in seventh place in the 1500 m World Cup, fifth in the 500 m World Cup and second in the 1000 m World Cup. At the beginning of the 2017/18 season, she won all world cup races in Budapest (over 500 m, 1000 m, 1500 m and with the relay). This was followed by four victories, three second and one third place and thus won the World Cup over 1500 m. In the World Cup over 500 m and over 1000 m she reached second place. At the highlight of the season, the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , she won the 1500 m and the gold medal with the relay. In March 2018 she won the gold medal at the world championships in Montreal over 500 m, 1500 m, 3000 m, in all-around and with the relay.

In the 2018/19 season, Choi won the World Cup twice over 1500 m and once with the relay. In addition, she achieved second place three times with the relay and once over 1000 m and once third place with the mixed relay. She reached third place in the World Cup over 1500 m. At the 2019 World Championships in Sofia , she won the silver medal in the all-around, over 1000 m and over 3000 m and the gold medal over 1500 m and with the relay. In the following season she triumphed in Dresden over 1500 m and in Nagoya with the mixed relay. In addition, she won second place with the relay in Salt Lake City and over 1500 m in Shanghai and thus reached fourth place in the World Cup over 1500 m. At the Four Continents Championships in Montreal in 2020 , she won gold in the 500 m, 1000 m, 1500 m, with the relay and in the all-around competition.

Placements in the World Cup

World Cup victories

singles No. date place discipline 1. 15th November 2014  Montreal 1500 m 2. December 14, 2014  Shanghai 1000 m 3. 20th December 2014  Seoul 3000 m 4th December 21, 2014  Seoul 1500 m 5. February 7, 2015  Dresden 1500 m 6th October 31, 2015  Montreal 1000 m 7th November 7, 2015  Toronto 1500 m 8th. November 8, 2015  Toronto 500 m 9. 5th December 2015  Nagoya 1500 m 10. December 6, 2015  Nagoya 1000 m 11. December 12, 2015  Shanghai 1500 m 12. February 7, 2016  Dresden 1500 m 13. November 6, 2016  Calgary 1000 m 14th November 12, 2016  Salt Lake City 1500 m 15th December 11, 2016  Shanghai 1000 m 16. December 18, 2016  Gangneung 500 m 17th September 30, 2017  Budapest 1500 m 18th September 30, 2017  Budapest 500 m 19th October 1, 2017  Budapest 1000 m 20th October 7, 2017  Dordrecht 1500 m 21st 18th November 2017  Seoul 1500 m 22nd 19th November 2017  Seoul 1000 m 23. November 10, 2018  Salt Lake City 1500 m 24. December 9, 2018  Almaty 1500 m 25th February 8, 2020  Dresden 1500 m

Season No. date place 1. November 9, 2014  Salt Lake City 1 2. November 16, 2014  Montreal 2 3. December 14, 2014  Shanghai 3 4th November 1, 2015  Montreal 4 5. November 8, 2015  Toronto 5 6th December 6, 2015  Nagoya 5 7th December 13, 2015  Shanghai 5 8th. November 6, 2016  Calgary 6 9. November 13, 2016  Salt Lake City 7 10. December 11, 2016  Shanghai 7 11. December 18, 2016  Gear tilt 7 12. October 1, 2017  Budapest 8 13. November 12, 2017  Shanghai 9 14th November 11, 2018  Salt Lake City 10 15th November 30, 2019  Nagoya 11 1With Jeon Ji-soo , Shim Suk-hee and Kim A-lang . 2With Jeon Ji-soo, Lee Eun-byul and Shim Suk-hee. 3With Noh Do-hee , Kim A-lang and Lee Eun-byul. 4th With Shim Suk-hee, Kim A-lang and Lee Eun-byul. 5With Kim A-lang, Shim Suk-hee and Noh Do-hee . 6thWith Shim Suk-hee, Noh Do-hee and Kim Geon-hee . 7thWith Shim Suk-hee, Noh Do-hee and Kim Ji-yoo . 8thWith Shim Suk-hee, Kim A-lang and Kim Ye-jin . 9With Shim Suk-hee, Kim Ye-jin and Lee Yu-bin . 10With Choi Ji-hyun , Kim Ji-yoo and Noh Ah-rum . 11With Kim A-lang, Kim Dong-wook and Park In-wook .

World Cup overall placements

season	500 m		1000 m		1500 m
	Points	space	Points	space	Points	space
2014/15	3,277	25th	29,277	3.	45,898	1.
2015/16	23,120	5.	36,000	1.	48,000	1.
2016/17	26,000	5.	28,000	2.	18,000	7th
2017/18	20.097	2.	20,000	2.	30,000	1.
2018/19	2,784	26th	8,144	14th	28.192	3.
2019/20	5,235	18th	4,404	24.	22,744	4th

Personal bests

• 500 m 42.422 sec. (installed on February 13, 2018 in Gangneung)
• 1000 m 1: 27.852 min. (installed on November 1, 2019 in Salt Lake City)
• 1500 m 2: 14.354 min. (installed on November 12, 2016 in Salt Lake City)
• 3000 m 4: 58.939 min. (installed on March 18, 2018 in Montreal)

Web links

• Choi Min-jeong at ISU
• Choi Min-jeong on The-Sports.org

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Choi is the family name here, Min-jeong is the first name.