Short-track speed skater Lim Hyo-jun claimed a first gold medal for South Korea on Saturday as the hosts made a triumphant start to the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. Lim got Korea off the mark on the first full day of action in the men's 1500m in front of an ecstatic, near-capacity 12,000 crowd at the Gangneung Ice Arena.
In a frenetic final the 21-year-old saw off Dutch world record-holder Sjinkie Knegt with Semen Elistratov, one of the Russians competing as an independent, in third.