Swimming Management Representatives Including Hwang Sun-woo and Kim Woo-min Leave for the World Championships
Challenge for 'multiple medals' in men's 200m, 400m freestyle and 800m relay
The management team, including Hwang Seon-woo and Kim Woo-min (Gangwon Provincial Office), who started the renaissance of Korean swimming, will participate in the 2024 World Championships, hoping for the best results ever. 파워볼실시간
22 representative management players and 5 leaders went to the departure hall of Incheon Airport late in the afternoon on the 6th.
They board a flight to Doha, Qatar, which takes off at 0:15 a.m. on the 7th.
The ‘main event’ management event of the 2024 Doha World Aquatics Championships begins on the 11th.
Korean swimming management aims for a ‘first record’ in this competition.
At previous world championships, Korean swimming won two gold medals, one silver medal, and three bronze medals.
Management Park Tae-hwan ranked first in the 400m freestyle and third in the 200m at the 2007 Melbourne Games, and won the gold medal in the 400m freestyle in Shanghai in 2011.
In Gwangju in 2019, diving Kim Su-ji (Ulsan Metropolitan City Hall) won a bronze medal in the women's springboard 1m.
Hwang Sun-woo (Gangwon Provincial Office) ranked second in the men's 200m freestyle in Budapest in 2022 and third in Fukuoka in 2023.
There have yet to be multiple Korean athletes on the podium in a single competition.
In this year's Doha, Hwang Sun-woo is considered a strong candidate to win the 200m freestyle, and Kim Woo-min will also challenge for a medal in the 400m freestyle.
The possibility that the 'Asia's strongest' men's 800m relay team, which will consist of Hwang Sun-woo, Kim Woo-min, Lee Ho-jun (Jeju City Hall), and Lee Yu-yeon (Goyang City Hall), will succeed in winning the first World Championships team medal in Korean swimming history has increased.
Men's freestyle powerhouses such as David Popovich (Romania) and Kyle Chalmers (Australia) did not participate in this competition, and Matthew Richards and Tom Dean (Great Britain), who took first and second place in the men's 200m freestyle at the Fukuoka World Championships last year, participated in the 200m freestyle. I gave up.
Hwang Sun-woo, who was considered a ‘clear medal candidate’ in the 200m freestyle, was upgraded to ‘top candidate for the championship.
In the 400m freestyle, only gold medalist Samuel Short (Australia), who ranked 1st to 4th at last year's Fukuoka Games, will not participate.
Kim Woo-min aims to win a medal by competing with Ahmed Hafnaoui (Tunisia), 2nd place in the last competition and Tokyo Olympic champion, Lucas Martens (Germany), 3rd place in the Fukuoka competition, and Guillermi Costa (Brazil), 4th place.
With a large number of world-class athletes missing, the relay event's medal record is expected to drop.
This is a golden opportunity for the Korean men's 800m relay team, which has all of its core members participating and has also stepped on the accelerator through training in Australia, to win a medal. 카지노사이트
The men's 400m freestyle, in which Kim Woo-min is participating, will have the preliminaries on the afternoon of the 11th, Korean time, and the finals on the morning of the 12th.
Sun-Woo Hwang accelerates towards the 200m freestyle gold medal by competing in the preliminary round on the afternoon of the 12th, the semifinals on the morning of the 13th, and the final on the morning of the 14th.
The men's 800m relay preliminaries will be held on the afternoon of the 16th, and the finals will be held on the morning of the 17th.
