The Gyeonggi-do ‘5G’ women’s curling team defeated their arch-rivals Chuncheon City Government to win the women’s quartet national title.
On the men’s side, Uisung-gun-gun, Gyeongbuk, defeated Gangwon-do, the national team for the 2023-24 season, to earn its first national team title.
The Gyeonggi-do Women’s Curling Team 5G (coach Shin Dong-ho, skip Kim Eun-ji, third Kim Min-ji, second Kim Soo-ji, lead Seol Ye-eun, and candidate Seol Ye-ji) won their second consecutive national title with a 6-5 overtime victory over Chuncheon City Government (coach Lee Seung-joon, skip Ha Seung-yeon, third Kim Hye-lin, second Yang Tae-yi, lead Kim Soo-jin, and candidate Park Seo-jin) in the women’s final of the 2024 KB Financial Korea Curling Championships at the Uijeongbu Curling Center in Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi-do, on Sunday.
In the men’s final, Uisung County Government (coach Lee Dong-gun, skip Lee Jae-beom, third Kim Hyo-joon, second Pyo Jeong-min, lead Kim Eun-bin, and nominee Kim Jin-hoon), which was founded last year, won 10-5 over Gangwon-do Government (coach Lee Ye-joon, skip Park Jong-duk, third Jung Young-seok, second Oh Seung-hoon, lead Lee Ki-bok, and nominee Sung Ji-hoon) to earn national honors for the 2024-2025 season.
With the win, Gyeonggi-do and Uisung-gun-gun will now compete at the 2025 World Curling Championships, which will determine qualification for the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan Cortina d’Ampezzo, as well as the 2025 Harbin Winter Asian Games, which will be held for the first time in eight years.
Chuncheon City Hall, which had a 6-1 record in the qualifying round robin, advanced to the playoffs as the top seed and won a page game against Gangneung City Hall, which finished second in the qualifying round robin, 7-4, to advance to the final, while Gyeonggi-do Government, which finished third in the qualifying round robin with a 5-2 record, defeated Seoul Metropolitan Government 10-2 and Gangneung City Hall 10-4 to advance to the final.
The women’s final was a fiercely contested affair that 카지노사이트 went into overtime as the teams fought back from behind.
Chuncheon City Government started the match with the backgammon, and the first end went into a scoreless blank end. The teams were then tied 2-2 through five ends before the teams scored one point each in the eighth and ninth ends to take a 5-4 lead.
Chuncheon City started the final end, the 10th end, with the advantage, but could only score one point, sending the match into a 5-5 overtime, where Gyeonggi-do clinched the title with a 6-5 victory.
The Gyeonggi-do team has earned national team honors for the 2024-2025 season following last season’s national team honors, and will also qualify for the 2025 Harbin East Asian Games and the 2025 World Women’s Curling Championship in Uijeongbu, South Korea.
On the men’s side, Uisung County Government, which entered the playoffs in third place with a 4-2 record in the qualifying round robin, defeated No. 4 Seoul Metropolitan Government 8-3 and No. 2 Kyungbuk Sports Association 8-7 to advance to the final.
Gangwon Provincial Government entered the playoffs as the No. 1 seed after going undefeated in the preliminary round robin with six wins and no losses, and advanced to the final with an 8-6 victory over No. 2 Gyeongbuk Sports Association.
In the men’s final, Gangwon-do took the first endgame and played a scoreless blank endgame, but despite having the endgame in the second end, the team was forced to steal two points from Uisung-guncheong.
The two teams were evenly matched at 3-2 until the sixth end, but in the seventh end, Uisung-guncheong scored three points to take a big lead of 6-2. However, the Gangwon-do team did not give up and scored three points in the eighth end to close the gap to 6-5.
Then, in the ninth end, the team regained the lead and scored four points to extend the score to 10-5, and the Gangwon Provincial Government team, who decided that the five-point deficit was insurmountable, shook hands with the team and ended the match.
The team, which was founded in 2023, finished fifth at last year’s Korean Curling Championships, but has since shown steady improvement, placing third at the 22nd President’s Cup last December and second at the Winter Games in February, and won the tournament to earn its first Taegeukmark honor.