It is the first time for both disabled and non-disabled people to win the World Championships.
(From left) Cho Min-kyung and Jeong Tae-young couple
Couple national team players Cho Min-kyung (48) and Jeong Tae-young (53, Changwon City Hall) won the 2024 World Wheelchair Mix Double Curling Championships held in Gangneung, Gangwon-do.
The pair of Cho Min-kyung and Jeong Tae-young defeated China’s Wang Meng and Yang Jinchao 8-3 in the finals of the 2024 World Wheelchair Mix Double Curling Championships held at the Gangneung Curling Center in Gangwon-do on the 16th.
In this tournament, in which 21 countries participated, the team of Cho Min-kyung and Jeong Tae-young took first place in the preliminaries with 5 wins and 1 loss, and beat Estonia (7-4 wins) in the quarterfinals and Italy (9-6) in the semifinals to advance to the finals. It went up.
In the final, Cho Min-kyung and Jeong Tae-young took the lead from the beginning, scoring 5 points through the 4th end while giving up only 1 point to China.
After giving up one point to China in the 5th end, they ran away with 3 points in the 6th end, and China withdrew in the 8th end, confirming their victory.
The pair of Cho Min-kyung and Jeong Tae-young became the first Korean disabled and non-disabled players to reach the top at the Curling World Championships.
Taeyoung Jeong laying the stone
Wang Meng is a gold medalist at the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Paralympics, and Yang Jinchao is a talented athlete who won the World Wheelchair Curling Championships held in Richmond, Canada in March last year.
Ranking points for participation in the 2026 Milan-Cortina d’Ampezzo Winter Paralympics are at stake in this competition.
Korean wheelchair curling (mixed quartet team) won a silver medal at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Paralympics and failed to advance to the semifinals at the 2022 Beijing Winter Paralympics.
The mixed doubles (mixed duo) match was newly added to the 2026 Milan-Cortina d’Ampezzo competition.
Cho Min-kyung and Jeong Tae-young said, “Our ultimate goal is to work hard in the future and fly the Korean flag at the Milan Winter Paralympic Games. We will prepare step by step from selection to the national team to participation in the next competition.” 온라인 슬롯