‘Hwang Sun-woo + Kim Woo-min’… Korean swimming, best performance at a single world championship

Hwang Sun-woo (20, Gangwon Provincial Office) became the fourth world championship gold medalist in Korean swimming history and the 10th medal.

Following Kim Woo-min (22, Gangwon Provincial Office) and Hwang Sun-woo, Korean swimming has already achieved its best performance in a single World Championships event.

Since there is still the men's 800m relay, which is likely to win a medal, Korea could receive a brilliant report card by winning three gold medals at the World Championships in Doha.

Sunwoo Hwang won the men's 200m freestyle final at the 2024 Doha International Aquatics Federation World Championships held at the Aspire Dome in Doha, Qatar on the 14th (Korean time) with a time of 1 minute 44.75 seconds.

This is the second gold medal and fourth medal won by Korean swimming in this competition. https://www.powerballsite.com

As of the 14th, the medals won by Korean swimming in this competition, including diving, are 2 gold and 2 bronze.

The number of previous World Championship medals increased to 10 (4 gold, 1 silver, and 5 bronze).

Until last year, there was only one Korean athlete, Park Tae-hwan (34), who won a gold medal at the World Aquatics Championships.

Tae-hwan Park took first place in the men's 400m freestyle at the 2007 Melbourne and 2011 Shanghai competitions. In Melbourne, he also placed third in the 200m freestyle.

In Gwangju in 2019, Kim Su-ji (25, Ulsan Metropolitan City Hall) won a bronze medal in the women's 1m springboard diving event, becoming the first Korean female athlete to win a World Championships medalist.

Korean swimming reached an inflection point with the appearance of Hwang Sun-woo.

Sunwoo Hwang broke the men's 100m freestyle Asian record and world junior record (47.56 seconds) and the 200m freestyle Korean record and world junior record (1 minute 44.62 seconds) at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics held in 2021.

He was the first Korean athlete to advance to the Olympic finals nine years after Park Tae-hwan, and took 5th place in the 100m freestyle and 7th place in the 200m freestyle.

The medal hunt began at the World Championships. https://www.foodntours.com/blog/638479

Sunwoo Hwang took second place (1 minute 44.47 seconds) at the 2022 Budapest Games and third place (1 minute 44.42 seconds) at the 2023 Fukuoka Games, becoming the first Korean swimmer to succeed in winning medals at the World Championships two times in a row.

In Doha, he was the first to touch the pad and decorated his medal in gold for the third time in a row.

Hwang Sun-woo was also recorded as the first Korean athlete to win gold, silver, and bronze medals at the World Championships. He is also the first Korean to win the men's 200m freestyle.

On the 12th, Kim Woo-min won the men's 400m freestyle, the first gold medal in the running event at this competition, with a time of 3 minutes 42.71 seconds. He was the first Korean world championship champion 13 years after Park Tae-hwan.

In the diving held at the beginning of the competition, Kim Su-ji won a bronze medal in the women's 3m springboard and a bronze medal in the mixed synchro 3m springboard with Lee Jae-kyung (24, Incheon Metropolitan City Hall).

The previous record for the most medals won by Korean swimming at a single world championship was two, set at the 2007 Melbourne Games.

At the time, Tae-hwan Park ranked first in the men's 400m freestyle and third in the 200m freestyle.

In Doha, the team has already won four medals, quickly achieving its best performance ever. He also achieved the feat of winning two gold medals for the first time in a single world championship.

Korea is also likely to win a medal in the men's 800m relay, where 'individual event world championship champions' Hwang Sun-woo and Kim Woo-min will join forces with Lee Ho-jun (Jeju City Hall) and Lee Yu-yeon (Goyang City Hall).

As traditional powerhouses such as Great Britain, the United States, and Australia, who qualified for the Paris Olympics, lost their power in the relay event, Korea, which holds the 'Asian record' (7 minutes 01.73 seconds), emerged as a strong candidate for a medal.

A total of 16 teams will participate in the men's 800m relay at the Paris Olympics, with the 1st to 3rd places from the Fukuoka World Championships and the 1st to 13th places from the Fukuoka and Doha Games receiving the right to participate.

Korea is likely to qualify for the Paris Olympics with the 7:06.82 recorded when it ranked 6th in Fukuoka.

However, the golden generation, including Hwang Seon-woo, is determined to secure a trip to Paris with better records and rankings in the finals of the Doha competition to be held on the 17th.

Korea's will to decorate its first medal in the team competition at the World Aquatics Championships with gold is also strong.

In Korean swimming, six people (women's 3m Kim Su-ji, women's 10m Kim Na-hyun, men's 3m Woo Ha-ram and Lee Jae-kyung, men's 10m Kim Young-taek and Shin Jeong-hwi) secured qualification to the Paris Olympics in the individual diving event, and artistic swimming duet Heo Yoon-seo and Lee Ri-young also confirmed their trip to Paris. did.

Although many swimming stars did not participate, Korean swimmers used the Doha World Championships as a 'prelude to the Paris Olympics' and confirmed their training results. https://anotepad.com/notes/dhrryhi3

Unlike in the past, when Korea only relied on Tae-Hwan Park, Korean swimming currently has multiple athletes in various events advancing toward the center of the world.

In the past, only one Korean swimmer, Park Tae-hwan, has reached the podium at the Olympics. Tae-Hwan Park won two medals in Beijing in 2008 (1st place in 400m freestyle and 2nd place in 200m freestyle) and two medals in London in 2012 (2nd place in 400m and 200m freestyle).

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Pub: 22 Feb 2024 02:34 UTC
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