The South Korean women’s ice hockey team won a valuable silver medal at the Gangwon 2024 Olympic Winter Youth Games (OWYG) 3-on-3 tournament. South Korea fell to Hungary 2-10 (0-2 1-5 1-3) in the final of the Gangwon 2024 tournament on Friday at the Gangneung Hockey Center. Despite being thwarted by the world’s best, the South Korean team earned its first medal at an International Olympic Committee (IOC)-organized tournament and confirmed its potential for improvement.

The Koreans, who lost 0-16 to Hungary in the preliminary round, rattled the opposition’s net twice on the day, while keeping their goals down. After going down two goals in the first period, the Koreans pulled one back on a man-advantage power play at 0-3, but were quickly overwhelmed by the Hungarians, who scored double-digit goals for the first time in nine games at the tournament. Hungary won Gangwon 2024 with a nine-game sweep of the qualifiers, semifinals, and final combined. They were especially dominant in the preliminary rounds, ruthlessly crushing Korea, Mexico (17-0), Turkiye (18-0), Australia (22-1), and the Netherlands (33-0), before 온라인카지노 showing off their firepower in the semifinals (14-4) and final against Italy.