Ye-ji Kwon, Kyung-ran Park, Ji-soo Kim, Hye-bin Oh, Soo-jeong Lee (front row, from left) and coach Ki-hoon Choi, who won the women's curling hearing-impaired category at the 21st Winter National Sports Festival for the Disabled.

The Seoul women's deaf curling team, consisting of 'captain' Kim Ji-soo (27), Kwon Ye-ji (27), Kim Ji-soo (27), Park Gyeong-ran (25), Oh Hye-bin (24), and Lee Su-jeong (24), participated in the 21st Winter National Sports for the Disabled. He received the Most Valuable Player (MVP) award in the competition.

They succeeded in winning the competition three times in a row and were selected as MVP by receiving 14 out of a total of 31 votes in the press vote on the 21st, beating Bong Hyeon-chae (21, Gyeonggi, Nordic skiing, 11 votes).

Jisoo Kim said, “Thank you to everyone who supported me. “I will do my best to receive good energy from this sports competition and win a prize at the Deaflympics,” he said.

The Seoul women's hearing-impaired curling team, which was selected as the best player (MVP) at the 21st Winter National Sports Festival for the Disabled, is taking a commemorative photo with Seo Young-won, vice president of the Korea Disabled Curling Association. From the left, Park Gyeong-ran, Lee Soo-jeong, Kim Ji-soo, Vice Chairman Seo, Kwon Ye-ji, and Oh Hye-bin.

The Seoul Curling Team will participate as Korea's representative in the De Olympic Games held in Turkye Erizurum next month and attempt to win a prize for the second time in a row.

They won a bronze medal at the 2019 Valtellina Games, making them the first Korean athletes to win a Winter Depic Games.

Hearing-impaired curling players usually wear hearing aids and practice just like non-disabled players.

However, in 'real life', wearing hearing aids is prohibited to prevent fraud, so communication must be done only with hand gestures.

Kim Hong-jun (left), winner of the Rookie Athlete Award at the 21st Winter National Sports Festival for the Disabled, and Yang Chung-yeon, secretary general of the Korea Sports Association for the Disabled.

The Rookie Player of the Year award at this Paralympic Games went to Kim Hong-jun (15, Seoul, ice hockey).

Kim Hong-jun, a former dream athlete from the Korean Sports Association for the Disabled, said, “With this award as an opportunity, I will train harder in the future with the intention of giving back.”

Kim Hong-jun recorded 1 goal and 2 assists in this tournament.

Meanwhile, Seoul won the overall championship for the third consecutive time with a total score of 30,441.00 points, beating Gyeonggi (29,886.80 points). 스포츠토토