1960 Winter Olympics / Participant (South Korea)

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South Korea took part in the VIII Winter Olympics in 1960 in the US Squaw Valley Ski Resort with a delegation of seven athletes in three disciplines, five of them men and two women.

Participants by sport

Speed ​​skating

Men

• Chang Yeong

  500 m: 44th place (50.0 s)

  1500 m: 41st place (2: 25.3 min)

• Choi Young-bae

  1500 m: 42nd place (2: 26.7 min)

  5000 m: 34th place (8: 57.8 min)

  10,000 m: 28th place (18: 15.5 min)

• Chang Rin-won

  1500 m: 44th place (2: 30.7 min)

  5000 m: 35th place (9: 01.6 min)

  10,000 m: 26th place (17: 45.7 min)

Women

• Han Hye-yes

  500 m: 22nd place (53.8 s)

  1000 m: 20th place (1: 48.8 min)

  1500 m: 23rd place (2: 55.6 min)

• Kim Kyung-hoi

  500 m: 21st place (53.2 s)

  1000 m: race not finished

  1500 m: 21st place (2: 48.6 min)

  3000 m: 20th place (6: 08.2 min)

Alpine skiing

Men

• Yim Kyung-soon

  Downhill: 61st place (3: 34.4 min)

  Giant slalom: disqualified

  Slalom: 40th place (4: 56.1 min)

Cross-country skiing

Men

• Kim Ha-yoon

  15 km: 54th place (1: 15: 26.5 h)

Web links

• South Korea at the 1960 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )