Harbin: South Korea pulled off a podium sweep in the women's 500-meter short track speed skating event at the Asian Winter Games in China on Saturday. Choi Min-jeong became the first South Korean woman to win an Asiad gold in the women's 500m at Heilongjiang Ice Events Training Center Multifunctional Hall in Harbin. It was her second gold medal of Saturday, after she had helped South Korea to the mixed 2,000m relay title.

According to Yonhap News Agency, Kim Gil-li grabbed silver after winning gold medals in the mixed relay and the women's 1,500m. Lee So-yeon won bronze. Choi, Lee, and Kim formed the lead pack from the start of the 4 1/2-lap race and put some distance between themselves and the two others in the final, Rina Shimada of Japan and Wang Xinran of China.

With about 1 1/2 laps remaining, Kim skated past Lee to move into second place behind Choi, who held off her surging teammate for the history-making gold.