Sim Seok-hee

South Korean short track athlete.

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In the 2012-13 season, she set a new women's 1000m world record (1:26.661) from her senior debut in her third year of middle school.[11] He is the player who won the overall World Cup series championship. At the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, where he competed for the first time as a sophomore in high school, he left a strong impression by being the last runner in the relay and turning around to carry the gold medal for Korea, establishing himself as the national team's ace. The height of the players on the Korean women's national team was not short, but Shim Seok-hee was the first player to have ace-level skills while being well over 170 cm. He also has the speed that comes from his long legs, a formidable spurt ability, and an outstanding off-course overtaking ability. Although he is tall and has the ability to fight,[12] , At the beginning of his career, he was less active in physical fights, so there were times when he was inferior in fights for position. As he gained more experience, he made great improvements in this area, and his race management ability also showed great improvement, which is why he was able to perform well not only in the 1500m but also in the 1000m, where race management ability is the most important.

As a player who is very confident in his endurance and speed, he has the explosive acceleration ability shown when riding the out-course in middle and long-distance events, but his skating itself is very stable to the point where he almost never falls, and he has the ability to carry out a strategy of leading from the front from the beginning, which is similar to Noh Jin-gyu , who played as the ace of the men's national team at a similar time.[13] Like most Korean female athletes, she tends to prefer the out-course because she is reluctant to make contact, but her in-course skills are not weak at all, and as she has gained experience in this area, she has also gained the judgment to decide on the overtaking route. When compared to players in the mid to late 160cm range[14] Although she may seem to have poor quickness, given her physical condition, the speed at which she raises the pitch shows that she has quite decent quickness.[15] Although instantaneous speed in a short section is not his strength, his maximum speed boasts a speed that is in no way inferior to that of foreign aces. It is safe to say that, with the exception of Pan Kesin and Choi Min- jeong, there are almost no players she has ever lost in a top speed match in normal conditions.[16] , is one of the players who can properly keep in check Choi Min-jung, who boasts an incredible off-course passing success rate while leading several laps from the lead position, which experiences the most air resistance.

In the relay, he was the last runner until Choi Min-jeong appeared, and until the first season after Choi Min-jeong joined the national team, the two took turns as the last runner, but after Choi Min-jeong fully established himself in the national team, he was in charge of the first runner. Because Shim Seok-hee's pushing is good, there is great synergy in the sections where the two alternate, and as expected, the most overtaking and lead consolidation occurs in the order in which these two ride. However, their form began to decline from the 2018-19 season, and they lost much of their international competitiveness from the 2022-23 season onwards. As he entered his late 20s, his skills began to decline rapidly due to the aging curve, and in particular, his stamina and speed, which were his greatest strengths, seriously decreased, preventing him from showing the same explosive performance as before in mid-to-long distances. Eventually, due to an incident, they were unable to participate in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, and there were many predictions that it would be difficult to see the two players interacting directly in games or training again. However, communication between the two players resumed from the 2025-26 season ahead of the 2026 Milan-Cortina d'Ampezzo Winter Olympics, and they will participate in the Olympics again eight years after the Pyeongchang Olympics, and will also compete in the relay rotation. The combination of Shim Seok-hee pushing Choi Min-jeong was attempted again. Later, in the second half of the Olympic 3000m relay finals, there was a decisive alternation scene, and the synergy between the two once again attracted attention, and they won another relay gold medal at the Milan Olympics, where they competed for the first time in eight years.

There is no disagreement that he was an ace and the top player who supported the women's short track team, but he is considered to be lacking to connect the Super Ace genealogy of the national team. This is a great fact that the skills have fallen rapidly when they are in the heyday of the big stage, such as the Olympic solo exhibition and the world championship.

Until the 2024-25 season award record

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