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Jeon Woong-tae: “I Will Bow Down with the Gold Medal on the Line”… Confidence of the Modern Pentathlon Star

Taegeuk Warriors to Shine in Paris (6) Modern Pentathlon Jeon Woong-tae Top-level skills in all five sports including fencing, swimming, horseback riding, shooting, and track and field Warming up with two gold medals from last year's Asian Games

The first ever medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics held three years ago is only the beginning.

The Korean modern pentathlon team will challenge for the first gold medal and the first single Olympic 'multiple medal' at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Modern pentathlon, created by Pierre de Coubertin, the founder of the modern Olympics, is a sport that selects 'all-round sportsmen'. 메이저사이트

It is called a 'true Olympic sport' because one athlete competes in all five sports: fencing, swimming, horseback riding, shooting, and track and field.

It has a long history as it has been adopted as an official Olympic event since the 1912 Stockholm Games.

Modern pentathlon is still unfamiliar to us, but it gained attention in the 2021 Tokyo Games when Jeon Woong-tae (29) won the bronze medal for the first time in history.

The Korean national team has become younger and stronger ahead of this Olympics.

The national team, which has evenly distributed winners at the International Federation of Modern Pentathlon (UIPM) World Cup this season, achieved its best ever performance with 4 gold medals, 2 silver medals, and 1 bronze medal at the World Championships last month, further raising expectations for the Olympics.

In particular, rookie Seong Seung-min (21), born in 2003, has emerged as a surprise medal candidate by winning the gold medal in the women's individual event at the World Championships for the first time in the history of Korean modern pentathlon.

In the Olympic modern pentathlon, each country can send two male and female athletes.

While Jeon Woong-tae, Seo Chang-wan (27), Sung Seung-min, and Kim Seon-woo (28), who performed well at the World Championships, are heading to Paris together, Jeon Woong-tae, the 'signboard' who has led Korea's modern pentathlon for nearly 10 years, is considered a strong candidate for the gold medal.

Jeon Woong-tae, the first Olympic medalist in Korea's modern pentathlon, won the men's final of the World Cup 3rd competition in May 2022 with a new record-breaking score of 1537 points, and showed off his world-class skills by winning the individual gold medal at the World Cup Final that year.

At the Hangzhou Asian Games last year, he won the individual event for the second consecutive time and also led Korea to win the team event for the first time in 13 years.

Jeon Woong-tae, who did not win a medal in the individual event of this year’s World Cup but won a bronze medal in the individual event at the World Championships held last month for the first time in five years, is looking ahead to winning a second consecutive Olympic medal.

He said, “I plan to analyze foreign players a lot in the first half of this season and pick up my pace in the second half,” and “I’m focusing all my attention on the Olympics.”

He added, “I’ll prove in Paris that ‘if you can do it, you can do it,’” and “If I do well, I’ll bow deeply to the Korean cheering squad.”

The Paris Olympics modern pentathlon will be held at the Palace of Versailles, a world-famous landmark representing France, except for the fencing ranking round to be held at the Arena Paris Nord on the 8th of next month.

The men's semifinals will follow on the 9th, the men's finals and women's semifinals on the 10th, and the women's finals on the 11th.

Equestrianism, which was controversial in the Tokyo Olympics over fairness and animal abuse, will disappear after this competition and will be replaced by obstacle events starting from the next competition.