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South Korea at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics
IOC code	KOR
NOC	Korean Olympic Committee
Website	www.sports.or.kr
in Lausanne
Competitors	40 in 13 sports
Medals	Gold 5 Silver 3 Bronze 0 Total 8
Winter Youth Olympics appearances (overview)
2012 2016 2020 2024

South Korea competed at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics in Lausanne, Switzerland from 9 to 22 January 2020.

South Korea competed 13 sports and has 40 competitors. On the final day, the country brings home 8 medals (5 golds and 3 silver).

Gangwon was announced as the next Winter Youth Olympics host province,during the closing ceremony.

Medalists

Medals awarded to participants of mixed-NOC teams are represented in italics. These medals are not counted towards the individual NOC medal tally.

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	You Young	Figure skating	Girls' singles	13 January
Gold	Shin Seo-yoon	Ice hockey	Girls' 3x3 mixed tournament	15 January
Gold	Seo Whi-min	Short track speed skating	Girls' 1000 metres	18 January
Gold	Jang Sung-woo	Short track speed skating	Boys' 1000 metres	18 January
Gold	Seo Whi-min	Short track speed skating	Girls' 500 metres	20 January
Gold	Lee Jeong-min	Short track speed skating	Boys' 500 metres	20 January
Silver	Kim Chan-seo	Short track speed skating	Girls' 1000 metres	18 January
Silver	Lee Jeong-min	Short track speed skating	Boys' 1000 metres	18 January
Silver	Jang Sung-woo	Short track speed skating	Boys' 500 metres	20 January

Alpine skiing

Boys

Girls

Biathlon

Boys

Girls

Mixed

Bobsleigh

Cross-country skiing

Boys

Girls

Curling

South Korea qualified a mixed team of four athletes.

Mixed team

Team	Event	Group stage						Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Park Sang-woo Park You-been Moon Si-woo Kim Ji-yoon	Mixed team	Estonia (EST) W 15 – 3	Russia (RUS) L 2 – 9	Canada (CAN) L 3 – 6	Poland (POL) W 5 – 3	Spain (ESP) W 10 – 2	3	Did not advance			12

Mixed doubles

Athletes	Event	Round of 48	Round of 24	Round of 12	Round of 6	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Zuzana Pražáková (CZE)  Moon Si-woo (KOR)	Mixed doubles	Kobayashi (JPN)  Tuaz (FRA) L 5 – 6	Did not advance

Figure skating

One figure skaters achieved quota places for South Korea based on the results of the 2019 World Junior Figure Skating Championships.

Singles

Athlete	Event	SP		FS		Total
		Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Cha Young-hyun	Boys' singles	69.61	5	129.51	5	199.12	5
You Young	Girls' singles	73.51	1	140.49	1	214.00

Mixed NOC team trophy

Athletes	Event	Free skate/Free dance
		Ice dance	Pairs	Girls	Boys	Total
		Points Team points	Points Team points	Points Team points	Points Team points	Points	Rank
Team Determination  Katarina Wolfkostin / Jeffrey Chen (USA)  Brooke McIntosh / Brandon Toste (CAN)  Nella Pelkonen (FIN)  Cha Young-hyun (KOR)	Team trophy	90.41 5	96.73 5	91.27 2	133.13 6	18	4

Freestyle skiing

Slopestyle & Big Air

Ice hockey

Boys

• Hong Seung-woo
• Kim San-gyeob
• Sohn Hyun

Girls

• Kang Si-hyun
• Lee Eun-ji
• Shin Seo-yoon
• Yoo Seo-young

Short track speed skating

Four skaters achieved quota places for South Korea based on the results of the 2019 World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships.

Boys

Athlete	Event	Heats		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Jang Sung-woo	500 m	1:27.573	2	1:34.626	1	1:45.114	1	1:33.531
	1000 m
Lee Jeong-min	500 m
	1000 m	1:41.031	1	1:34.714	2	1:45.220	2	1:33.646

Girls

Athlete	Event	Heats		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Kim Chan-seo	500 m	1:49.254	1	1:59.433	3	1:27.833	2	1:29.538
	1000 m
Seo Whi-min	500 m
	1000 m	1:53.546	1	1:31.586	1	1:27.692	1	1:29.439

Skeleton

Ski mountaineering

Boys

Girls

Sprint

Snowboarding

Snowboard cross

Halfpipe, Slopestyle, & Big Air

Speed skating

Three skaters achieved quota places for South Korea based on the results of the 2019 World Junior Speed Skating Championships.

Boys

Girls

Mass Start

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Team 5  Amalie Haugland (NOR)  Kim Min-hui (KOR)  Oddbjørn Mellemstrand (CZE)  Jordan Stolz (NED)	Mixed team sprint	Disqualified
Team 9  Serena Pergher (ITA)  Ilka Füzesy (ROU)  Yang Suk-hoon (KOR)  Nil Llop (ESP)		2:06.33	4
Team 10  Marta Dobrowolska (POL)  Yuka Takahashi (JPN)  Michał Kopacz (POL)  Park Sang-eon (KOR)		2:08.62	10
Team 15  Hanna Bíró (HUN)  Kang Soo-min (KOR)  Yevgeniy Koshkin (KAZ)  Pavel Taran (RUS)		2:07.27	6

See also

• South Korea at the 2020 Summer Olympics

References

1. Pavitt, Michael (22 May 2019). "World Curling Federation announce 24 nations to compete at Lausanne 2020". Insidethegames.biz. Dunsar Media. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
2. ^ "ISU Communication 2235 - Provisional Quota places Figure Skating & Speed Skating / Final Quota places Short Track Speed Skating". International Skating Union. 3 April 2019. Retrieved 30 September 2019.

• 2020 in South Korean sport
• Nations at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics
• South Korea at the Youth Olympics