Short track speed skater Choi Min-jeong has defended her gold medal in the women's one-thousand-500 meter event at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics.

In the final at the Capital Indoor Stadium on Wednesday, Choi finished first with a time of two minutes 17-point-789 seconds.

She had previously won gold in the same event at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics four years ago.

Tonight's victory secures the 23-year-old's third medal in Beijing, having already collected two silvers in the one-thousand meter race and three-thousand meter relay.

In the one-thousand-500 meter semifinals, Choi set a new Olympic record with a time of two minutes 16-point-831 seconds.

South Korea has now accrued a cumulative 25 Olympic gold medals in short track events, surpassing the 24 gold medals earned in archery.
 
With a gold and silver added Wednesday evening, Korea's medal tally in the Beijing Olympics stands at two gold, four silver and one bronze.