GANGNEUNG, South Korea, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- Athletes from countries and regions known to be winter sports underdogs, have been making history at the 2024 Gangwon Winter Youth Olympic Games.
Britain's Zak Carrick-Smith won the men's Alpine skiing slalom title on Thursday, securing his third medal here along with a gold in Alpine combined and a silver in giant slalom.
The Alpine combined gold was the first-ever title for Britain in an Olympic Alpine skiing event. Excluding his medals, Britain has gained no other medal yet.
Ilya Mizernykh of Kazakhstan snatched his country's first-ever Winter Youth Olympic gold in the men's ski jumping normal hill individual event on the first day of the Games.
A day later, Kazakhstani skater Polina Omelchuk clinched bronze in the short track speed skating women's 1,000m race.
Jonathan Lourimi of Tunisia claimed the men's bobsleigh monobob silver on Tuesday, giving the first-ever medal of the Winter Youth Olympics to the North African nation that made its Winter Youth Olympic debut here.
A day earlier, Agnese Campeol of Thailand won the women's monobob silver that was the Asian nation's first medal of the Winter Youth Olympics.
Puerto Rico's Isabela Aponte competed in the women's luge event, becoming the first-ever athlete to represent the Caribbean island in the Winter Youth Olympics. ■
