[대한민국청소년의회 / 허은진 기자] At the Tokyo Olympics, Korea competed in karate, golf, modern pentathlon, basketball, rugby, wrestling, volleyball, badminton, boxing, shooting, cycling, swimming, sports climbing, horseback riding, baseball, archery, weightlifting, yachting, judo, track and field, rowing, He competes in 29 sports, including gymnastics, soccer, canoeing, table tennis, taekwondo, tennis, fencing, and handball.
In the archery event, he took four gold medals out of five gold medals and won four archery titles for two consecutive years. Korea, the ‘descendant of Jumong’, was once again imprinted at the Olympics. The archery team aimed for five gold medals, but failed to bring a medal in the men’s individual event and ended up winning four gold medals.
In archery, there were five sub-events: men’s individual event, women’s individual event, men’s team event, women’s team event, and mixed event. The first to bring the gold medal in the mixed match. Ansan and Kim Je-deok participated and scored 1,369 points in the mixed team ranking round, moving up to the round of 16 in first place.
The opponent in the round of 16 of the mixed archery team was Bangladesh. Against Bangladesh, he performed overwhelmingly and brought all the sets. The result was a neat 6-0 victory. The opponent in the quarterfinals was India. Ansan and Kim Je-deok took the 1st and 2nd sets and brought the set score 4 points. However, they gave up 3 sets and shot 4 sets of 10, 7, 10, and 9 points to advance to the quarterfinals with a 36-point win by 3 points.
They won their first gold medal at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games by winning against Mexico in the quarterfinals and defeating the Netherlands in the final. He also won gold medals in the men’s and women’s team events.
In the women’s individual event, Min-hee Jang in the round of 32 and Chae-young Kang in the quarter-final were defeated, and Ansan and E. Osipova faced off in the final. The game was tight enough to make it to the shoot-off. In the shoot-off, Ansan scored 10 points and E. Osipova scored 8 points, and the gold medal belonged to Ansan. In archery, Ansan won three gold medals.
In the men’s individual event, Kim Je-deok and Oh Jin-hyuk lost in the round of 32, and Kim Woo-jin lost in the quarter-finals, and failed to bring a medal. It was a disappointing defeat. The event that brought four gold medals was archery.
In Judo, one silver medal and two bronze medals were hung around the neck. The silver medal was brought by Goo-Ham Jo. It was a long game going into overtime, but he won the silver medal.
The bronze medal winners were Ahn Chang-rim and Ahn Paul. Ahn Chang-rim won half of the bronze medal match against Oruyov by ‘up-and-coming’. As a result, Ahn Chang-rim’s victory was able to bring the bronze medal.
Among the 36 gold, silver, and bronze medals in fencing, one gold medal, one silver medal, and three bronze medals were brought. In the women’s fencing epee team, Choi In-jeong, Lee Hye-in, Kang Young-mi, and Song Sera took silver medals, and in the women’s saber team, Kim Ji-yeon, Yoon Ji-soo, Seo Ji-yeon, and Choi Su-yeon took bronze medals.
Park Sang-young, Mase-gun, Song Jae-ho, and Kwon Young-jun took bronze medals in the men’s epee team, Kim Jeong-hwan, Oh Sang-wook, Kim Jun-ho, and Koo Bon-gil took the gold medal in the men’s saber team, and Kim Jeong-hwan took the bronze medal in the men’s saber individual event.
In Taekwondo, Dabin Lee took the silver medal. In Gyo-don and Jang Jun also succeeded in winning bronze medals, bringing one silver and two bronze medals.
He also won a medal in the shooting event. Kim Min-jung took the silver medal in the women’s 25m pistol event. They didn’t miss the first place until the finals, but in the end, they were defeated by their opponents and won a silver medal.
As a result, South Korea won 5 gold, 4 silver and 7 bronze medals at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, and is currently 7th overall (as of July 31). On August 1st, athletes from the Korean national team run for medals in golf, gymnastics, sailing, track and field and weightlifting events.
In today’s women’s volleyball game, they won the Korea-Japan match after a close game and confirmed their place in the quarterfinals. However, in the men’s football team, the men’s national team returned home after a 6-3 loss to Mexico. The women’s volleyball team will play a qualifying match against Serbia on August 2nd at 9 am.
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