Yun turns tables on Dukurs to take Park City victory

BySportsbeat

Published 19/11/2017 at 12:13 GMT

Korea's Sungbin Yun showed he means business this Olympic season after nudging world champion Martins Dukurs into second at the latest World Cup event in Park City.

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Latvian Dukurs was searching for his 50th World Cup victory on Saturday after triumphing in the season-opener in Lake Placid last weekend – Yun finishing in silver on that occasion.

But the roles were reversed this time around as a new track record of 48.50 seconds on his second run helped propel the Korean to the top of the leaderboard.

He finished with a combined time of 1:37.32, 0.63 seconds ahead of reigning World Cup champion Dukurs, for his first gold at that level in nearly a year.

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