Kwak Yoon-gy

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Kwak Yoon-gy Short track
nation Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea
birthday December 26, 1989
place of birth Seoul
Career
National squad since 2005
status active
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
World Cup medals 6 × gold 6 × silver 3 × bronze
JWM medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 2 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
silver 2010 Vancouver 5000 m relay
ISU Short track world championships
silver 2009 Vienna 500 m
silver 2009 Vienna 1500 m
gold 2010 Sofia 1500 m
gold 2010 Sofia 5000 m relay
silver 2010 Sofia All-around
silver 2010 Sofia 1000 m
silver 2010 Sofia 3000 m
gold 2012 Shanghai All-around
gold 2012 Shanghai 1000 m
gold 2012 Shanghai 3000 m
silver 2012 Shanghai 1500 m
bronze 2012 Shanghai 500 m
bronze 2012 Shanghai 5000 m relay
bronze 2016 Seoul 5000 m relay
gold 2018 Montreal 5000 m relay
World team championshipsTemplate: medals_winter sports / maintenance / unrecognized
bronze 2008 Harbin team
gold 2009 Heerenveen team
gold 2010 Bormio team
ISU Short track junior world championships
silver Belgrade 2005 1000 m
bronze Belgrade 2005 1500 m
bronze Belgrade 2005 1500 m superfinals
Placements in the Short Track World Cup
 Debut in the World Cup October 19, 2007
 World Cup victories 29 (including 15 individual wins)
 500 m world cup 2. ( 2007/08 )
 1000 m world cup 1. ( 2011/12 , 2012/13 )
 1500 m world cup 1. ( 2015/16 )
 Podium placements 1. 2. 3.
 500 meters 3 4th 6th
 1000 meters 10 5 3
 1500 meters 2 4th 4th
 3000 meters 0 1 0
 Relay / team 14th 6th 2
last change: February 26, 2019

Kwak Yoon-gy ( kor. 곽윤기 ; born December 26, 1989 in Seoul ) is a South Korean short tracker .

Career

Kwak's first international appearance took place at the Junior World Championships 2005 in Belgrade, where he immediately won a silver over 1000 m and two bronze medals. He then went into the next seasons in any major international event at the start and only returned in October 2007, back when it was first for the ISU Short Track Speed Skating World Cup of the 2007/08 season was nominated. Here, too, he achieved good placings in his first race and the podium in the second competition. Since he concentrated almost exclusively on the shortest distance, 500 m, he achieved second place in this discipline in the overall World Cup behind his compatriot Sung Si-bak . Nevertheless, he also managed a podium place over 1000 m when he was second in Kobe . Overall, he won an individual World Cup, over 500 m in Québec City , he was also used in all relay World Cups, each of which went to the South Korean team, so that there were two more World Cup victories for him. He won bronze at the 2008 Team World Championships in Harbin .

The Short Track World Cup 2008/09 began for Kwak with another victory, this time over the 1000 m and a third place over 500 m. In the further course of the season she reached second place once and third place over 500 m and second place twice and victory twice over 1000 m. With the relay, he took second place twice. At the Short Track World Championships in Vienna in 2009 , he won the silver medal over 500 m and 1500 m. At the subsequent team world championships in 2009 in Heerenveen , he won the gold medal. He finished the season in fourth place in the overall world cup over 500 m and in second place in the overall world cup over 1000 m. At the beginning of the following season he won the World Cup in Beijing over 500 m and with the relay. This was followed by two more victories in the relay and a third place over 1000 m. In his first Olympic participation in 2010 in Vancouver , he won silver with the relay. He finished fourth over 500 m. In March 2010, at the 2010 World Championships in Sofia , he won the silver medal in the all-round, over 1000 m and over 3000 m, and gold over 1500 m and relay. At the subsequent Short Track Team World Championships in 2010 in Bormio , he won gold. He finished the season in seventh place in the overall World Cup over 1000 m and fourth in the overall World Cup over 500 m. After he was banned for the following season by the South Korean federation because of prohibited agreements in the national elimination races, he won four world cups over 1000 m in the 2011/12 season and once with the relay. He achieved a total of 13 podium places in the World Cup and won the overall World Cup over 1000 m for the first time at the end of the season. In the overall world cup over 1500 m he took third place. At the 2012 World Championships in Shanghai he won the bronze medal in the 500 m and the relay and the silver medal in the 1500 m. In the all-around competition, over 1000 m and over 3000 m, he became world champion.

At the beginning of the 2012/13 season , Kwak reached third place over 1000 m, second place over 1500 m and first place with the relay at the World Cup in Calgary . In the further course of the season he won three runs over 1000 m and three runs with the relay. Over 1500 m at the World Cup in Sochi , he came third. At the end of the season, like last year, he won the overall World Cup over 1000 m. In the 2014/15 season he won two World Cup wins with the relay and one over 500 m. He also came in second place three times and third place twice in the World Cup. In the overall world cup over 500 m he took third place. At the beginning of the 2015/16 season he won the 1500 m World Cup in Montreal . At the following World Cup in Toronto , he also won over 1500 m. Over 1000 m he achieved third place and second place with the relay. Three third and two second places followed. He also won the 1000 m in Shanghai and finally won the World Cup over 1500 m. In the world cup over 1000 m he finished fifth. At the season highlight of the 2016 World Championships in Seoul , he won the bronze medal with the relay. In the 2017/18 season he won the season in Seoul and finished second in the season in Shanghai. At the season highlight, the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang , he finished fourth in the relay. At the 2018 World Championships in Montreal, he won the gold medal with the relay.

Personal bests

  • 500 m 40.239 sec. (installed on December 13, 2014 in Shanghai)
  • 1000 m 1: 23.007 min. (installed on October 21, 2012 in Calgary)
  • 1500 m 2: 09.548 min. (installed on December 10, 2011 in Shanghai)
  • 3000 m 4: 40.401 min. (installed on March 11, 2012 in Shanghai)

Participation in World Championships and Olympic Winter Games

Olympic games

World championships

  • 2008 Harbin : 3rd place team
  • 2009 Vienna : 2nd place 500 m, 2nd place 1500 m, 4th place 1000 m, 4th place all-around, 5th place 3000 m
  • 2009 Heerenveen : 1st place team
  • 2010 Sofia : 1st place 1500 m, 1st place relay, 2nd place all-around, 2nd place 1000 m, 2nd place 3000 m, 31st place 500 m
  • 2010 Bormio : 1st place team
  • 2012 Shanghai : 1st place 3000 m, 1st place all-around, 1st place 1000 m, 2nd place 1500 m, 3rd place relay, 3rd place 500 m
  • 2016 Seoul : 3rd place relay, 6th place 1000 m, 8th place 1500 m, 10th place 500 m, 11th place all-around

World Cup victories

singles

No. date place discipline
1. February 2, 2008 CanadaCanada Quebec 500 m
2. October 19, 2008 United StatesUnited States Salt Lake City 1000 m
3. February 7, 2009 BulgariaBulgaria Sofia 1000 m
4th September 19, 2009 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Beijing 500 m
5. October 23, 2011 United StatesUnited States Salt Lake City 1000 m
6th 4th December 2011 JapanJapan Nagoya 1000 m
7th December 10, 2011 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Shanghai 1000 m
8th. 5th February 2012 RussiaRussia Moscow 1000 m
9. October 28, 2012 CanadaCanada Montreal 1000 m
10. December 8, 2012 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Shanghai 1000 m
11. December 9, 2012 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Shanghai 1000 m
12. December 13, 2014 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Shanghai 500 m
13. October 31, 2015 CanadaCanada Montreal 1500 m
14th November 7, 2015 CanadaCanada Toronto 1500 m
15th December 12, 2015 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Shanghai 1000 m

Season

No. date place
1. February 3, 2008 CanadaCanada Québec 1st
2. February 10, 2008 United StatesUnited States Salt Lake City 1
3. October 19, 2008 United StatesUnited States Salt Lake City 2
4th September 20, 2009 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Beijing 3
5. September 27, 2009 Korea SouthSouth Korea Seoul 3
6th November 8, 2009 CanadaCanada Montreal 4
7th October 30, 2011 CanadaCanada Saguenay 5
8th. October 21, 2012 CanadaCanada Calgary 6
9. October 28, 2012 CanadaCanada Montreal 6
10. December 2, 2012 JapanJapan Nagoya 7
11. December 9, 2012 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Shanghai 6
12. November 16, 2014 CanadaCanada Montreal 8
13. December 14, 2014 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Shanghai 9
14th 19th November 2017 Korea SouthSouth Korea Seoul 10

2With Sung Si-bak, Lee Jung-su and Lee Ho-suk.
3With Kim Seoung-il , Lee Jung-su and Lee Ho-suk.
4th With Kim Seoung-il, Lee Jung-su and Sung Si-bak.
5With Lee Ho-suk, Noh Jin-kyu and Sin Da-woon .
6th With Kim Byeong-jun, Noh Jinkyu and Sin Da-woon.
7thWith Lee Han-bin , Noh Jinkyu and Sin Da-woon.
8thWith Park Se-yeong , Seo Yi-ra and Sin Da-woon.
9With Seo Yi-ra, Han Seung-soo and Sin Da-woon.
10With Lim Hyo-jun , Kim Do-kyoum and Seo Yi-ra.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Short track medalists Lee, Kwak deprived of rewards
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Kwak is the family name here, Yoon-gy is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Kwak, Yoon-gy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 곽윤기 (Korean, Hangeul); 郭 潤 起 (Korean, Hanja); Gwak, Yun-gi (Revised Romanization); Kwak, Yunki (McCune-Reischauer)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South Korean short tracker
DATE OF BIRTH December 26, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Seoul