Winter Olympics: Korea s Lee enters PGS final

Pyeongchang (South Korea) Feb 24 (IANS) South Korean alpine snowboarding ace Lee Sang-ho reached the men s parallel giant slalom (PGS) final at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics here on Saturday.

Lee finished third among 32 contestants in the qualifying round after marking a combined time of 1 minute 25.06 seconds for his two runs reports Yonhap news agency.

He easily qualified for the knockout finals in which 16 competitors will go head-to-head.

Lee struggled in his first run of 42.90 to finish in 16th place but moved up to third on his second try with a time of 42.16.

Meanwhile Lee s teammate Kim Sang-kyum also made it to the finals by finishing 15th with 1:25.88 but Choi Bo-gun failed to make the cut after taking 26th place with 1:26.78.

Nevin Galmarini of Switzerland current World Cup rankings leader was the top qualifier with a time of 1:24.78 followed by Zan Kosir of Slovenia with 1:24.97.

--IANS
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