5 February. Speed skating. Women:
1. South Korea – 3:13.65
2. Russia – 3:18.58
3. Japan – 3:20.17
It was freeze and sunny in the morning on “Medeo”. Women were first who started the qualification in team’s pursuit race. Eight teams participated and athletes from South Korea got ahead of the Russian team for 1, 5 seconds.
In the main final the competition was not tough. Koreans were faster and got ahead for almost five seconds. Japanese were stronger than Italians for bronze medals.
Representatives of teams winners shared their impressions on the race:
Lim Jungsoo (South Korean team):
- We are happy that we are in the first place! We did our best and everything completed successfully.
Olesya Chernega (Russian team):
- All participants are strong at the Universiade. We really liked to participate on “Medeo” and we never participated together. We are all from different cities in Russia and sometimes we had some problems on trainings. However we solved our problems and showed decent results in both races. We are happy about the way how fans support us here. We feel like we are at home. Tomorrow I will perform in Mass start.
Mai Yamada (Japanese team):
- It was a hard race for me but my team supported me. Thanks to my team and all fans for the support!
