With the shackles of Paralympic qualification cast aside both sides played out a thrilling and open final and it was no surprise that Seung-Hwan Jung of South Korea and Italy's Florian Planker featured again on the scoresheet, keeping up their fine form throughout the tournament.

Goals from Gianluigi Rosa and Sang-Hyeong Park saw the sides end normal time all square and they could not be separated in overtime either leading to a shoot-out to decide who would take the gold.

Surprisingly, the normally deadly Jung missed with the first effort of the shoot-out but his inaccuracy was matched by Italy's Valerio Corvino to still leave the sides locked together.

But Jong-Kyung Lee, Young-Jae Cho and Min-Su Han all found the back of the net of the visitors and when Andrea Chiarotti missed his effort the celebrations could begin for the South Koreans, who ensured a sixth place seeding at Sochi next year.

"I'm really, really happy that we won gold and qualified for Sochi, but we've also shown what our weaknesses are on the ice, so we're going to be building off this win and working hard the next several months until Sochi," said Jung, who picked up the Best Forward of the tournament award after his eight goals and four assists.

Rosa picked up the Best Defenceman award to soften the blow of missing out on the gold medal.

After securing the third qualification spot yesterday, Sweden ended a successful time in Turin by recording another impressive win, this time 4-3 over Japan with two strikes apiece for Per Kasperi and Niklas Ingvarsson enough to overcome goals from Daisuke Uehara, Satoru Sudo and Mamoru Yoshikawa.

Seung-Hwan Jung of South Korea was the star man for his side all week in Turin, helping them claim the gold medal and picking up the Best Forward of the tournament award