South Korea dominates opening day of short track speedskating event

Seung-Hi Park of Korea leads the race during the ladies 1500 metres semifinals at the ISU World Short Track Speed Skating Championship in the Bulgarian capital Sofia, Friday, March, 19, 2010. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS/Petar Petrov

SOFIA, Bulgaria - South Korea dominated the first day of the short track speedskating world championships.

Yoon-Gy Kwak posted a time of two minutes 24.316 seconds to win the men's 1,500-metre title Friday. Teammates Si-Bak Sung (2:24.373) and Ho-Suk Lee (2:24.459) took the silver and bronze medals, respectively.

Seung-Hi Park of South Korea took the women's 1,500-metre title in a time of 2:21.570, beating teammates Eun-Byul Lee on 2:21.665 and Ha-Ri Cho's 2:21.821.

Kalyna Roberge of Saint-Etienne-de-Lauzon, Que., was fifth.