Noh Jin-kyu

Noh Jin-kyu
nation	South Korea
birthday	July 20, 1992
size	177 cm
Weight	69 kg
date of death	3rd April 2016
Career
Medal table
World Cup medals 6 × 3 × 1 × JWM medals 4 × 0 × 0 ×
Short track world championships gold 2011 Sheffield 1000 m gold 2011 Sheffield 1500 m gold 2011 Sheffield 3000 m gold 2011 Sheffield All-around gold 2011 Warsaw team gold 2012 Shanghai 1500 m silver 2012 Shanghai 1000 m silver 2012 Shanghai 3000 m silver 2012 Shanghai All-around bronze 2012 Shanghai 5000 m relay  Short track junior world championships gold 2010 Taipei All-around gold 2010 Taipei 1000 m gold 2010 Taipei 1500 m gold 2010 Taipei 3000 m relay

Noh Jin-kyu ( kor. 노진규 ; * July 20, 1992 ; † April 3, 2016 ) was a South Korean speed skater in the short track discipline .

Career

Noh Jin-kyu started short track at the age of nine in Gwacheon . His older sister is the speed skater Noh Seon-yeong .

Career as a short tracker

Noh won in 2010 in the short track speed skating World Junior Championships in Taipei four gold medals. He won two gold medals at the 2011 Asian Winter Games in Astana and Almaty . In Warsaw in 2011 he won the team world championships with the South Korean team . In the same year he won four world titles at the World Cup in Sheffield . The following year at the World Championships in Shanghai he was world champion in the 1500 m and also won one bronze and three silver medals. He also won gold twice at the 2013 Winter Universiade . He is world record holder over 1500 and 3000 m.

He broke his elbow in training in mid-January 2014 and had to cancel his participation in the Winter Olympics in Sochi , for which he had already qualified for the relay. A week later, it became public knowledge that he had cancer . A malignant bone tumor was discovered under his left shoulder blade . However, he wanted to postpone the operation first in order to be able to start in Sochi . After his cancellation, Lee Ho-suk replaced him in the relay team.

In April 2016, Noh died of complications from cancer at the age of 23.

Web links

• Profile on universiadetrentino.org

Individual evidence

1. ^ Profile of the ISU
2. ↑ (Olympics) S. Koreans well out of contention in women's speed skating Yonhap News Agency (February 9, 2014)
3. ↑ Short track star: Cancer tumor in world champion Noh discovered Spiegel Online (January 25, 2014)
4. ↑ Short track runner Noh Jin-kyu undergoes tumor surgery KBS (January 27, 2014)
5. ↑ Shorttracker Noh dies at 23 Sport1 (April 4, 2016)

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Noh is the family name here, Jin-kyu is the first name.