Kim Woo-min’s joy and Hwang Seon-woo’s regret intersect with the national team Challenging for a medal in the 800m relay

Kim Woo-min wins the medal he was aiming for in the men’s 400m freestyle Hwang Seon-woo is eliminated in the semifinals in his main event, the 200m freestyle Relay team aims for the first Olympic team medal in Korean history.

The national team, aiming for Korea’s first ever team medal in the 2024 Paris Olympics, had mixed feelings.

In the individual event held earlier, Kim Woo-min (23) smiled brightly after achieving his goal, while Hwang Seon-woo (21, both Gangwon Provincial Office) left with deep regret.

Kim Woo-min recorded 3 minutes 42.50 seconds in the men’s 400m freestyle final held at the La Defense Arena in Paris on the 28th (Korean time), placing third and winning a bronze medal.

Kim Woo-min, who emerged as a medal candidate after winning the gold medal in the 400m freestyle at the Doha World Aquatics Championships in February, was pushed down to 7th place after failing to race as he had hoped in the preliminaries.

As a result, he was assigned to the somewhat disadvantageous lane 1, but he overcame the unfavorable conditions by racing in his own style.

Kim Woo-min became the second Korean swimming Olympic medalist after Park Tae-hwan. He also gave Korean swimming its first medal in 12 years since the 2012 London Olympics.

On the other hand, Hwang Sun-woo suffered a bitter defeat in his main event, the 200m freestyle, where he had been expecting a medal, failing to even advance to the finals. Hwang Sun-woo recorded 1:46.13 in the men’s 200m freestyle preliminaries on the 28th, placing 4th overall and advancing to the semifinals where the top 16 swimmers compete. However, in the semifinals held on the 29th, he finished 9th overall with a time of 1 minute 45.92 seconds, failing to advance to the finals where he finished 8th. He suffered a bitter defeat as his pace dropped sharply after passing the 100m mark. The 200m freestyle is an event in which Hwang Sun-woo has won three consecutive medals in the World Championships: silver in Budapest in 2022, bronze in Fukuoka in 2023, and gold in Doha this year, so his elimination in the semifinals was a shock. Kim Woo-min, who has the medal he dreamed of, and Hwang Sun-woo, who is deeply disappointed, will now team up in the 800m relay. Their mindsets may be different because they received different results in their main individual events, but their goal is the same: to win the first Olympic team medal in Korean management history. The national team consisting of Hwang Sun-woo, Kim Woo-min, Lee Ho-jun (23, Jeju City Hall), Kim Young-hyun (20, Anyang City Hall), Lee Yu-yeon (24, Goyang City Hall), and Yang Jae-hoon (26, Gangwon Provincial Office) will compete in the 800m relay preliminaries at 8:20 p.m. on the 30th. Those who place within the top 8 in the preliminaries will compete in the finals at 5:01 a.m. on the 31st. The men’s 800m relay team, centered around Kim Woo-min and Hwang Sun-woo, has grown to a position where they can aim for the world’s top spot by fiercely shortening their records . The Korean relay team, which broke Korean records in succession at the 2022 Budapest and 2023 Fukuoka World Championships, set a new Asian record of 7 minutes 01.73 seconds and won the gold medal at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games in September last year. It was the first time in Korean swimming history that a team event at the Asian Games was won. The national team swam in the men’s 800m relay final at the Doha World Championships in February this year, recording 7 minutes 01.94 seconds, and came in second place. They were only 0.1 seconds behind China, which came in first place with 7 minutes 01.84 seconds . It was the first silver medal in a team event at a World Championships in Korean history. The relay team, which has shown a rapid upward trend, is even aiming for an Olympic medal. Korea was assigned to Group 1 with Spain, Japan, France, the United States, Germany, Israel, and Switzerland in the preliminaries. Korea has never advanced to the finals in an Olympic relay event. Just advancing to the finals would be a new history, but the national team is aiming for something higher. Hwang Sun-woo, who suffered the bitter defeat of being eliminated in the semifinals of the 200m freestyle, where he had hoped to win a medal, said, “We still have the 100m freestyle, 800m relay, and 400m medley relay left. We need to forget about today’s game and shake it off quickly. He vowed, “I will focus on the next game.” Kim Woo-min encouraged Hwang Sun-woo, saying, “I hope he quickly shakes off his regrets about the 200m freestyle and shows the form he has prepared for the past three years in the best condition in the remaining games.” He also said, “I will work well with my teammates in the 800m relay, trust each other, and race with confidence,” and “I definitely want to aim for it with the relay members. I hope it will lead to a miracle,” expressing his strong desire for a medal. 카지노사이트