Speed Skating - ISU World Short Track Speed Skating Championships - Arena Armeets, Sofia, Bulgaria - March 10, 2019 South Korea's Dae Heon Hwang in action during the men's 1000m semi final REUTERS/Stoyan Nenov
BEIJING (Reuters) - Hwang Dae-heon added the Olympic record to his world best time as he qualified for the quarter-finals of the short track speed skating 1,000 metres event at the Beijing Games on Saturday.
Hwang dominated a tightly-contested heat in one minute 23.042 seconds to beat the mark set by Canada's Charles Hamelin in 2018 by 0.365 seconds.
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