Gyeongbuk Athletic Association, the men’s curling team that won the Alberta Curling Series Tournament in CanadaThe Gyeongbuk Athletic Association, the national men’s curling team, won the championship with six wins in the tournament that they participated in during training in Canada.
The Gyeongbuk Athletic Association, which consists of Skip Kim Soo-hyeok, third Kim Chang-min, second Jeon Jae-ik, and lead Kim Hak-kyun, defeated Canada’s Tim Johnson Tao 7-2 in the final of the Alberta Curling Series Avonaire held in Alberta, Canada on the 4th (Korea time) and took the top spot. climbed on
Gyeongbuk Athletic Association, which advanced to the playoffs with four wins in the preliminaries, defeated Tim Johnson Tao 6-4 in the final tournament where the top teams from each group faced off to reach the final.
Gyeongbuk Athletic Association, who met Tim Johnson Tao again in the final, took the lead 7-2 until the 5th end and received the opponent’s surrender.
Skip Kim Su-hyeok of the Gyeongbuk Athletic Association, who won the first international tournament with the Taegeuk mark in the 2021-2022 season, said, “I’m happy to win, but now there are a lot of things to improve in the process of putting hands and feet together. I’ll give it to you,” he said.
He also pledged to qualify for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics at the Olympic Qualifications Competition to be held in the Netherlands from December 11 to 18.
Gyeongbuk Athletic Association failed to reach the quarterfinals in the ATB Okotox Classic, the first time they participated during field training, but gained confidence by winning the second competition.
Gyeonggi Provincial Government (Skip Kim Eun-ji), who participated in the women’s curling ‘Curl’s Day’ in this tournament, lost in the semi-final and did not reach the final.
In this competition, with 10 teams participating, 5 teams each go through a preliminary round, and the top teams in each group face off and the winning team goes straight to the finals.
The team that wins the match between the 2nd place teams will face the loser of the match between the 1st place in the semi-final.
Min-ji Kim (Chuncheon City Hall) and Ki-jeong Lee (Gangwon Provincial Office), the mixed double national team training in Switzerland, advanced to the quarterfinals in the Bern Mix-Double World Tour, the first international competition they participated in, but failed to reach the semi-finals.
Kim Min-ji and Ki-jeong Lee lost to Jenny Ferre-Martin Rios (Switzerland), the silver medalist team at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in the quarterfinals.
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