Yang Hyun-min

Yang Hyun-min
nation	South Korea
birthday	2nd November 1979
place of birth	Seoul
size	171 cm
Weight	70 kg
Career
discipline	Single seater
National squad	since 2008
status	not active
Placements in the Natural Track Luge World Cup
Debut in the World Cup January 18, 2009  Overall World Cup ES 46th ( 2008/2009 )
last change: March 6, 2012

Yang Hyun-min (born November 2, 1979 in Seoul ) is a South Korean natural track luge . He was the first South Korean to take part in a World Cup race and was the first in his country to win World Cup points. Together with Lee Jeong-il , he was also the first South Korean to take part in a natural track toboggan world championship.

Career

Yang Hyun-min and his compatriot Lee Jeong-il were the first South Korean to compete in the World Cup in the 2008/2009 season . He was looked after by the natural track trainer of the International Luge Federation , Karl Flacher from Austria. Flacher himself was a successful natural toboggan runner in the 1970s and trained not only the South Koreans but also athletes from other countries who are not yet established in natural tobogganing.

After the two South Koreans had not yet received a start clearance in the first World Cup race of the 2008/2009 season in St. Sebastian von Flacher, as the risk of injury would have been too great, Yang Hyun-min gave up in the second race of the season on January 18, 2009 on the Grantau natural toboggan run in Umhausen made his World Cup debut. As the penultimate, Yang won the first World Cup points for South Korea with 37th place. A week later, Yang finished third from bottom in Unterammergau, 31st place, immediately behind his team-mate Lee Jeong-il, who had not yet started in Umhausen. After Yang did not start at the World Cup race in Deutschnofen , he took part in the 2009 World Championship in Moos in Passeier . Here, however, the two South Koreans were only able to place at the bottom of the field. Yang was more than 45 seconds behind 36th and penultimate place, Lee was another four seconds slower. For Yang this world championship was the last international race so far and he did not take part in any competitions in the next three years.

successes

World championships

• Moos in Passeier 2009 : 36th single-seater

World cup

• 46th place in the overall single-seater World Cup in the 2008/2009 season

Web links

• Yang Hyun-min in the database of the International Luge Federation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} PEWO World Cup on natural track, January 9th to 11th, 2009, St. Sebastian / Mariazellerland (AUT). International Luge Federation, January 7, 2009, accessed on July 31, 2010.
2. ↑ PEWO World Cup on natural track, 30./31. January 2009 in Deutschnofen / Nova Ponente (ITA). International Luge Federation, January 30, 2009, accessed July 31, 2010.

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Yang is the family name here, Hyun-min is the first name.