Yeo Soo-yeon explained

Sport:Short track speed skating
Yeo Soo-yeon
Birth Date:19 November 1985
Pb:1000 m: 1:30.812 (2005)
1500 m: 2:22.329 (2005)
3000 m: 5:13.541 (2005)

Yeo Soo-yeon is a former South Korean short-track speed skater.[1] She is a Team World champion as well as a champion and a two-time silver medalist of the Winter Universiade.

During the 2004–05 World Cup season, she won a 3000 m race and finished second in both 1000 m and 1500 m races at the last World Cup stage in Spišská Nová Ves, Slovakia.[2] She also achieved several victories and podiums in relay during that season.

After retiring from competitive sports Yeo worked as a teenagers' coach in Middleburg, Virginia, US.[3] In September 2013, she was also appointed as Sport Manager for the ISU disciplines within the Sports Operation Department for the 2018 Winter Olympics.[4]

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Notes and References

  1. https://www.gettyimages.ae/detail/news-photo/south-koreas-kang-yun-mi-pushes-yeo-soo-yeon-during-the-news-photo/52282632 Yeo Soo-yeon competing in a relay race
  2. https://www.cbc.ca/sports/canadians-win-3-short-track-medals-1.542513 Canadians win 3 short-track medals
  3. https://www.middleburglife.com/201637its-a-long-drive-for-a-gifted-short-track-skater/ IT’S A LONG DRIVE FOR A GIFTED SHORT TRACK SKATER
  4. https://library.olympics.com/default/digitalCollection/DigitalCollectionAttachmentDownloadHandler.ashx?parentDocumentId=186385&documentId=186387&skipWatermark=true&skipCopyright=true News of the PyeongChang Organizing Committee for the 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games (Fall 2013)