Milan: South Korea claimed three medals in short track speed skating at the Milan-Cortina Winter Games on Friday, with Kim Gil-li becoming the country's first double gold medalist of the competition. On the last day of short track races in Milan, Kim, 21, held off teammate Choi Min-jeong for the gold in the women's 1,500 meters at Milano Ice Skating Arena in Milan. Corinne Stoddard of the United States got the bronze behind the two South Koreans. According to Yonhap News Agency, Kim and Choi started the 14-lap race in the middle of the pack before speeding past multiple skaters over the late stretch. Choi briefly held the lead, but Kim sped past her on the 13th lap and crossed the line first. Kim earlier won gold in the 3,000m relay and bronze in the 1,000m. Choi came up just shy of becoming the first short tracker ever to win three consecutive gold medals in the same individual race. However, Choi still became the most decorated Olympian for South Korea by pushing her career medal totals to seven. Earlier in the evening, the quartet of Rim Jong-un, Lee Jeong-min, Lee June-seo, and Hwang Dae-heon won the silver medal in the men's 5,000m relay, behind the Netherlands and ahead of Italy. It was Hwang's late spurt as the anchor that pushed South Korea into the silver medal position over the final corner. Hwang, the 1,500m silver medalist, and Rim, the 1,000m bronze medalist, each finished the competition here with two medals apiece. With these three medals, South Korea has three gold medals, four silver medals, and three bronze medals for the competition, with two more days remaining. The Korean Sport and Olympic Committee had set three gold medals as the target -- one more than the total from the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics. Also on Friday, Lee Seung-hun qualified for the final in the men's freestyle skiing halfpipe event at Livigno Snow Park in Livigno, 140 kilometers north of Milan, but did not end up performing due to a knee injury he picked up while training for the final. Lee, 20, was the first South Kore an freestyle skier to qualify for a halfpipe final.