Kim Min-seop Wins the 200m Mare Nostrum Butterfly

Kim Min-seop wins the 200m Mare Nostrum Butterfly, beating the world record holder

 

Woomin Kim in the 400m freestyle and Jooho Lee in the 200m backstroke also won gold medals… Sunwoo Hwang took second place in the 100m freestyle.

Kim Min-seop (Dokdo Sports Team) caused a stir by defeating world record holder Kristof Milak (Hungary) in the 200m butterfly.

On the second day of the 2nd Mare Nostrum Series competition held in Barcelona, ​​Spain on the 31st (Korean time), Korean swimming produced three champions, including Kim Min-seop in the men’s 200m butterfly, Kim Woo-min in the 400m freestyle (Gangwon Provincial Office), and 200m backstroke Lee Joo-ho (Seogwipo City Hall).

Hwang Seon-woo (Gangwon Provincial Office) took second place in the 100m freestyle, behind David Popovic (Romania) by 0.02 seconds. 카지노사이트탑

On a day full of bad news, the athlete who surprised Korean swimming the most was Min-seop Kim.

Minseop Kim was the first to touch the pad in the men’s 200m butterfly final with a time of 1 minute 55.47 seconds.

Although he fell short of the Korean record of 1 minute 54.95 seconds that he set at the national team selection in March, he finished the race faster than world record holder Milak.

Milak clocked 1 minute 55.67 seconds, 0.20 seconds slower than Kim Min-seop.

Milak became the 200m butterfly champion at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics held in 2021 and the 2019 Gwangju and 2022 Budapest World Championships.

He holds both the world record (1 minute 50.34 seconds) and the Olympic record (1 minute 51.25 seconds) in this event.

On this day, Milak also competed in the 100m freestyle and felt a physical burden, but Kim Min-seop received the pleasant medal of ‘beating the world record holder’ ahead of his participation in the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Kim Min-seop, who won the silver medal in the men’s 400m individual medley the day before with a time of 4 minutes 15.62 seconds, received his second medal of the competition in gold.

After the race, Kim Min-seop said through the Korea Swimming Federation, “I was very nervous, but I ran the race the way I wanted.

Having such a good experience before the Olympics will be of great help in Paris.”

Kim Woo-min, who is aiming to win a medal at the Paris Olympics, also won the main event, the 400m freestyle.

Kim Woo-min comfortably beat second place Marco de Tulio (Italy) in the final with a time of 3 minutes 44.81 seconds and 3 minutes 47.73 seconds.

Kim Woo-min also set a new record, beating the previous competition record (3 minutes 44.99 seconds) set by Nikita Lovintsev (Russia) in 2009 by 0.18 seconds in 15 years.

He received a winning prize of 350 euros (about 520,000 won) and a new tournament record prize of 300 euros. I also took (450,000 won).

At the 2024 Doha World Championships last February, Kim Woo-min became the men’s 400m freestyle champion, setting a personal best of 3 minutes 42.71 seconds.

Kim Woo-min, who continued his intense training at the Jincheon Training Center in Australia and Korea, won a gold medal even though he competed in this competition without going through the ‘rowing period’, which involves properly mixing rest and training in order to shorten his record.

Kim Woo-min said, “It feels great to win the competition with a new record,” and added, “My goal of wanting to do something bigger at the Paris Olympics has become clearer.”

Lee Joo-ho also took the top spot in the men’s 200m backstroke with a time of 1 minute 56.73 seconds.

Second place was Hidekazu Takehara (Japan) with a time of 1 minute 57.28 seconds.

Lee Joo-ho washed away the disappointment of finishing second in the 100m backstroke the previous day (54.03 seconds) with a gold medal in the main event, the 200m backstroke.

Lee Joo-ho said, “I feel like I’m continuing to grow every time I train,” and added, “I want to prepare well for the remaining period and record a time of 1 minute, 54 to 55 seconds at the Paris Olympics.”

Hwang Sun-woo unfortunately lost to Popovich for two days in a row.

In the 100m freestyle final, Hwang Seon-woo took second place with a time of 48.51 seconds, 0.02 seconds behind Popovich, who touched the touch pad at 48.49 seconds.

Third place was Kazuhiro Matsumoto (Japan) with 48.79 seconds.

Sunwoo Hwang also took second place in the 200m freestyle the previous day with a time of 1 minute 45.68 seconds.

First place was Popovich, who finished the race in 1 minute 44.74 seconds.

Sunwoo Hwang and Popovich will face each other again in the third competition of the Mare Nostrum Series in Monaco on June 2-3.

Hwang Sun-woo said, “I am satisfied that I won a valuable silver medal with a time of 48 seconds despite my heavy body condition,” and added, “I will work hard to take care of my body to achieve an even better record when I move to Monaco.”