Won Yun-jong and Kim Jin-su finished the men's two-man bobsleigh in 19th place with a combined time of 4 minutes and 1.24 seconds at the Yanqing National Sliding Centre in Beijing on Tuesday.
Pilot Won Yun-jong and brakeman Kim Jin-su finished in 16th place after the first two heats of the two-men bobsleigh on Monday at Yanqing National Sliding Centre.
Women’s monobob makes its Olympic debut at the Beijing Games and Kim Yoo-ran will become Korea’s first-ever female monobob athlete. Last December, Kim won the IBSF Europe Cup women’s monobob gold medal.
The Korean four-man bobsleigh team, piloted by Won Yun-jong, front, starts a race during the International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation (IBSF) World Cup in St. Moritz, Switzerland, on Sunday.
Won Yun-jong, right, and Kim Hyeong-geun in action during the men's two-man bobsleigh race at the Bob & Skeleton World Cup and IBSF European Championships held at Saint-Moritz in Switzerland on Saturday.
Korea took sixth place in the two-man bobsleigh race at the BMW International Bobsleigh & Skeleton Federation World Cup, with Won Yun-jong and Kim Jin-su finishing the two runs with a time of 1:39.82, marking their best finish this season on Sunday.
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