S. Korea exceeds Winter Asiad gold medal target in China

HARBIN, 17 February (BelTA - Yonhap) - South Korea breezed past its Asian Winter Games gold medal target in northeast China this month with victories from ice and snow, an encouraging development for its up-and-coming athletes one year ahead of the Winter Olympics in Italy.

With the gold medal in women's curling on Friday, the final day of the competition, South Korea finished with 16 gold medals, five more than its initial target and tied for its Winter Asiad record set in 2017 in Sapporo, Japan.

As expected, short track speed skaters carried the day, sweeping up six gold medals over the first two days of the Winter Asiad in Harbin.

Speed skaters on the long track contributed three gold medals.

There were some historic gold medals for South Korea in snow events.