Swimmers Hwang Sun-woo and Kim Woo-min challenge for medals in the individual event and the team event, the 800m relay.
Badminton Ahn Se-young, who was eliminated in the quarterfinals in Tokyo, is a favorite to win in Paris.
High jumper Woo Sang-hyuk, who is participating in his third Olympics, says, “I’ll definitely medal in Paris.”
Im Si-hyun, ranked first in the archery national team competition, aims for 10 consecutive wins and 3 gold medals in the team competition
Hwang Seon-woo ‘thumbs up’
(Gimcheon = Yonhap News) Reporter Gwansik Yoon = Hwang Seon-woo (Gangwon Provincial Office), the Paris Olympics mascot, after the men’s 200m freestyle final at the ‘KB Finance Korea Swimming Championships’ held in conjunction with the 2024 Paris Olympic Management National Team Selection Competition held at the Gimcheon Indoor Swimming Pool in Gyeongsangbuk-do on the 26th. He is holding a doll and giving a thumbs up. 2024.3.26 [email protected]
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Namjik Han = The Korean team is expected to run a tough medal race at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
However, Korea also has several Olympic champion candidates that the world is paying attention to.
Hwang Seon-woo (20, Gangwon Provincial Office), Ahn Se-young (22, Samsung Life Insurance), and Woo Sang-hyuk (27, Yongin City Hall), who received ‘mixed congratulations’ by becoming ‘stars without medals’ at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics held in 2021, stood on the podium in Paris. We are determined to hold a medal ceremony.
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Kim Woo-min (22, Gangwon Provincial Office), who only participated in the team event in Tokyo, and Im Si-hyeon (20, Korea National Sport University), who unfortunately missed out on the Olympic qualification, are also attracting attention as ‘winner candidates’ and are heading to Paris.
Hwang Seon-woo and Kim Woo-min checking records
(Gimcheon = Yonhap News) Reporter Kwan-sik Yoon = Hwang Seon-woo and Kim Woo-min (left) record game records after the men’s freestyle 200m final at the ‘KB Finance Korea Swimming Championships’ held in conjunction with the 2024 Paris Olympics management national team selection competition held at the Gimcheon Indoor Swimming Pool in Gyeongsangbuk-do on the 26th. I am checking. 2024.3.26 [email protected]
Hwang Sun-woo was the first Korean athlete and the first Asian athlete to reach the finals of this event in the 100m freestyle at the Tokyo Olympics in 65 years since Atsushi Tani (Japan) at the 1956 Melbourne Games, and took 5th place.
In the 200m freestyle preliminaries, he set a new Korean record and a new world junior record at the time of 1 minute 44.62 seconds and advanced to the semifinals, becoming the first Korean athlete to reach the Olympic finals in 9 years since Park Tae-hwan at the 2012 London Games and take 7th place.
In the 200m, Hwang Sun-woo’s prelims time (1 minute 44.62 seconds) was better than the final time (1 minute 45.26 seconds).
This was the result that revealed the lack of experience of ‘teenager’ Hwang Sun-woo, who was competing on the Olympic stage for the first time.
Afterwards, Sunwoo Hwang succeeded in winning medals at the World Championships three times in a row in the men’s 200m freestyle, taking second place at the 2022 Budapest Games, third place at the 2023 Fukuoka Games, and first place at the 2024 Doha Games.
After competing in the World Championships for three consecutive years and participating in the Hangzhou Asian Games in 2023, I opened my eyes to ‘race management’.
Although there are many competitors such as David Popovich (Romania) and Matthew Richards (Great Britain), Hwang Sun-woo, who has consistently reached the podium in recent major competitions, is a candidate to win the men’s 200m freestyle recognized by World Swimming.
Kim Woo-min pointing to the Paris Olympics mascot
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Kim Woo-min ranked 6th in 2022 and 5th in 2023 at the Men’s 400m Freestyle World Championships, and reached the top in 2024 with a personal best of 3 minutes 42.71 seconds.
Kim Woo-min, who has risen from ‘Asia’s Strongest’ to ‘World Championship Champion’, is expected to compete for the color of the medal with Samuel Short (Australia) and Ahmed Hafnaoui (Tunisia) in Paris.
Korean swimming is also aiming to enter the 6th squad and win a medal in the men’s 800m relay, which will be competed by Hwang Sun-woo, Kim Woo-min, and Lee Ho-jun (Jeju City Hall).
In previous Olympics, Korean swimming won four medals. This is an achievement that Park Tae-hwan achieved through his own efforts.
Tae-hwan Park won gold medals in the men’s 400m freestyle and silver medals in the 200m freestyle at the 2008 Beijing Games, and silver medals in the 400m and 200m freestyle at the 2012 London Games.
Korean swimming is confident that a ‘new Korean Olympic medalist’ will be born in Paris.
Ahn Se-young showing off her body
(Hangzhou = Yonhap News) Reporter Lee Ji-eun = Korea’s Ahn Se-young is facing China’s Chen Yu-fei in the badminton women’s singles final of the Hangzhou Asian Games held at Binjiang Gymnasium in Hangzhou, China on the 7th. 2023.10.8 [email protected]
Ahn Se-young lost to Chen Yu-fei (China) in the quarterfinals of the badminton women’s singles at the Tokyo Olympics and failed to win a medal.
Chen Yufei became a gold medalist at the Tokyo Olympics.
However, An Seyoung is no longer afraid of Chen Yufei.
Ahn Se-young became the first Korean player to win a women’s singles gold medal in 27 years since Bang Bang-hyun in 1996 at the All England Open, the most prestigious badminton competition in March 2023, and also defeated Chen Yu-fei at the Hangzhou Asian Games, 29 years after Bang Bang-hyun at the 1994 Hiroshima Games. stood at the highest point of the podium.
Ahn Se-young’s next goal is to win the Paris Olympics.
Ahn Se-young has a sweet dream of hanging the Taegeukgi at the Olympic Badminton Women’s Singles Awards Ceremony 30 years after Bang Bang-hyeon at the 1994 Atlanta Games.
[올림픽] Woo Sang-hyuk, ‘jumped high’
(Tokyo = Yonhap News) Reporter Sang-gyun Han = Sang-hyuk Woo, who took fourth place in the men’s high jump at the Tokyo Olympics on the 1st by setting a new Korean record of 2m35, is happy as he unfurls the Taegeukgi after the match at the Tokyo Olympic Stadium. 2021.8.1 [email protected]
Track and field men’s high jumper Woo Sang-hyuk will compete at the Olympics for the third time, following Rio de Janeiro in 2016 (2m26, failed to advance to finals) and Tokyo in 2021 (2m35, fourth place).
He expressed his motivation, saying, “In Rio, participating in the Olympics itself was meaningful, and in Tokyo, I was satisfied with entering the world’s top ranking,” and added, “I will definitely win a medal in Paris.”
Since liberation, there have been only two Olympic medalists produced by Korean track and field: Hwang Young-jo (gold medal) in Barcelona in 1992 and Lee Bong-ju (silver medal) in Atlanta in 1996. Both medals came in the marathon, a road event.
In track & field, there has yet to be a Korean Olympic medalist.
Woo Sang-hyuk, who set several first records in Korean track and field, including winning the World Indoor Championships, second place in the Outdoor World Championships (2022), and winning the Diamond League Final (2023), repeatedly said, “I will set the first record in Korean track and field at the Olympics as well.” I promised.
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Im Si-hyeon passed the Korean women’s archery team selection competition, which is as intense as the Olympic medal competition, in first place.
Im Si-hyeon, who was unfortunately eliminated from the 2021 Tokyo Olympics national team selection competition, competed in her first international all-around competition at the Hangzhou Asian Games last year, and swept the mixed team event, women’s team event, and women’s individual event, becoming the first Korean archer to win three Asian Games titles in 37 years.
Im Si-hyun, who continued his momentum, won the title of first place in the Korean national team selection competition, which is a ‘certificate check for an Olympic gold medal’.
Korean archery hopes that Im Si-hyeon will follow in the footsteps of Ansan (Gwangju Bank), who won the first three gold medals in Olympic archery history in Tokyo, in Paris.
Im Si-hyun, along with Jeon Hoon-yeong (Incheon City Hall) and Nam Su-hyeon (Suncheon City Hall), will also attempt the feat of winning the women’s archery team event for the 10th consecutive time.
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