Korea wins silver in women's short track relay

Korean short track skaters wave after their second place finish in the women's 3,000-meters relay final during the short track speedskating competition at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, Sunday. AP-Yonhap

Korea skated to silver in the women's 3,000m short track relay at Beijing 2022 on Sunday, collecting its third consecutive medal in the event.

The team of Choi Min-jeong, Lee Yu-bin, Kim A-lang and Seo Whi-min finished behind the dominant Netherlands at Capital Indoor Stadium for South Korea's third medal in short track and its fifth overall in Beijing.

This was the second silver medal in Beijing for Choi, who'd finished second in the women's 1,000m on Friday.

Korea started the 27-lap race in fourth place and stayed in the back of the pack for most of the way. The Netherlands and China went back and forth for the top spot.

With 12 laps to go, South Korea briefly moved into third place in a tightly-contested race, with Canada not too far behind in fourth.

But Korea fell to last place with eight laps left and still brought up the rear with three laps to go.

Team Korea celebrate at the podium during the venue ceremony after winning a silver medal in the women's 3,000-meter relay final during the short track speedskating competition at the Winter Olympics in Beijing, Sunday. Newsis

And that's when two members of the 2018 Olympic relay champion went to work. Kim passed China on the inside for third place, and then Choi, covering the final two laps as the anchor, zipped past Canada's Courtney Sarault for second place.

Choi tried to clear one final hurdle, in the form of the Dutch star Suzanne Schulting, but South Korea finished 0.218 second back for silver.

Choi had also finished back of Schulting for the 1,000m silver medal. (Yonhap)