Kim Woo-min wins the 400m freestyle with a personal best record
Marenostrum Tour 3rd Monaco Competition Hwang Seon-woo, freestyle 100m competition record 金
Kim Woo-min (23, Gangwon Provincial Office, photo), the star of Korean swimming, set a personal best record and won the competition in preparation for the Paris Olympics.
Kim Woo-min recorded 3 minutes 42.42 seconds in the men’s 400m freestyle final at the 3rd competition of the 2024 Mare Nostrum Swim Tour held in Monaco on the 2nd, beating Ho-jun Lee (23, Jeju City Hall, 3 minutes 48.43 seconds) and took the top spot. Kim Woo-min beat the personal record (3 minutes 42.71 seconds) he set when winning the gold medal in the 400m freestyle at the Doha (Qatar) World Aquatics Championships in February this year by 0.29 seconds. He also came close to the Korean record (3 minutes 41.53 seconds) set in 2010 by Park Tae-hwan, the men’s 400m gold medalist at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, by 0.89 seconds. Kim Woo-min won the 400m freestyle event in Barcelona (Spain) on the 31st of last month for the second consecutive time.
Kim Woo-min, who is continuing strong training in Europe following the Australian training camp and Jincheon Athletes’ Village, shortened his personal record without ‘tapering’ (conditioning before the competition), revealing his prospects for a medal at the Paris Olympics, which opens in July. Kim Woo-min’s record ranks 4th in this year’s overall rankings, following Lucas Martens (Germany, 3 minutes 40.33 seconds), Elijah Winnington (3 minutes 41.41 seconds), and Samuel Short (Australia, 3 minutes 41.64 seconds).
Hwang Seon-woo (21, Gangwon Provincial Office) also won the gold medal in the men’s 100m freestyle final, hitting the touchpad with a time of 47.91 seconds, breaking the competition record (previously 48.08 seconds). After setting the Asian record of 47.56 seconds in the semifinals of the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, Hwang Sun-woo, who had not been able to break the 47-second record for two and a half years, recorded 47.93 seconds twice in the semifinals and finals of the Doha World Championships in February. I took the number 47 again. David Popovic (Romania), who won the Barcelona competition by 0.02 seconds over Hwang Sun-woo (48.51 seconds), did not participate that day. 온라인섯다
