Speed skater Kim Min-sun falls just shy of 1st world medal

• Published date: 04 March 2023
• Publication title: The Korea Times

Korean speed skater Kim Min-sun has finished fourth in her main event at the world championships, coming up achingly short of her first career medal at the competition.

Kim ended in fourth place in the women's 500 meters at the International Skating Union (ISU) World Speed Skating Championships in Heerenveen, the Netherlands, Friday (local time), with a time of 37.56 seconds. She was only 0.02 second behind the bronze medalist, Jutta Leerdam of the Netherlands.

Another Dutch skater, Femke Kok, won the gold medal in 37.28 seconds, with Vanessa Herzog of Austria taking home silver in 37.33.

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