Woo Ha-ram Advances to World Aquatics Diving Men’s 3m Finals
Woo Ha-ram Advances to World Aquatics Diving Men’s 3m Finals… Securing Olympic Tickets
Lee Jae-kyung, who failed to advance to the finals, is also virtually confirmed to go to the Paris Olympics
Woo Ha-ram (25, Korea Sports Promotion Foundation) advanced to the men’s 3m springboard diving finals at the World Aquatics Championships for the first time in five years.
Woo Haram ranked 9th out of 18 people with a total of 392.95 points in the 1st to 6th periods in the men’s 3m springboard semifinals at the 2024 World Championships Diving held at the Hamad Aquatic Center in Doha, Qatar on the 7th, securing a ticket to the finals for the top 12. 안전놀이터
It has been five years since Woo Ha-ram, a Korean diving star, advanced to the finals of this event at the World Championships since the 2019 Gwangju Games (4th place).
He was unable to participate in the 2022 Budapest competition due to a back injury, and at the 2023 Fukuoka competition, he fell to 19th place and missed out on a ticket to the semifinals where he would get to 18th place.
Woo Ha-ram, who is recovering from the aftereffects of an injury and improving his performance, advanced to the semifinals in 15th place out of 70 people in the preliminary round on the 6th with 380.20 points, and improved his ranking further in the semifinals.
Additionally, Woo Ha-ram secured the right to participate in the Paris Olympics.
The men’s 3m springboard is an official Olympic event.
In diving, qualifications for the Paris Olympics are distributed to the National Olympic Committee (NOC) rather than to individual athletes.
The International Aquatics Federation has decided that the method of distributing qualifications for the Paris Olympics for the individual diving event will be ’12 tickets for the 2023 Fukuoka World Championships, a maximum of 5 tickets for each continental championship, and 12 tickets for the 2024 Doha World Championships.’
Woo Ha-ram advanced to the finals of the Doha competition and gave Korean diving a spot at the Paris Olympics regardless of the rankings of athletes from other countries.
Lee Jae-kyung (24, Incheon Metropolitan City Hall), who also participated in the semifinals, placed 15th with 367.85 points and failed to advance to the finals.
However, Lee Jae-kyung also succeeded in ‘entering the top 12 among athletes from countries that did not secure a qualification for the Paris Olympics’ and won one ticket for the Paris Olympics.
Each country can obtain a maximum of two tickets to the Paris Olympics in the men’s 3m springboard diving event.
China, Mexico, Germany, Italy, and the United States have already secured two spots for the men’s 3m springboard Paris Olympics at the Fukuoka Games, so they cannot add additional Olympic spots for this event.
In the semifinals on this day, two Chinese players, one Mexican player, one German player, and one Italian player were ranked higher than Lee Jae-kyung.
Jaekyung Lee’s ranking among ‘athletes from countries that did not secure the right to participate in the Paris Olympics’ is 10th.
The Korea Swimming Federation plans to give Woo Ha-ram and Lee Jae-kyung, who won the ‘right to participate by country’, tickets to the Paris Olympics.
Woo Ha-ram aims for a ‘higher ranking’ in the finals held on the morning of the 8th.
Woo Ha-ram, who ranked 4th in the men’s 3m springboard at the Tokyo Olympics, the highest ever in Korean diving, suffered from severe slump afterward.
Before starting this year’s Doha Games, Woo Ha-ram said in an interview, “With the help of many people, I got through the difficult times, and now I have regained both my health and confidence,” and “I entered the Doha World Championships with the healthiest body and mind since the Tokyo Olympics.” “I will participate.
I will check the possibility of winning a medal at the Paris Olympics in Doha before returning,” he said.
In Doha, Woo Haram’s health was confirmed, and his skills recovered enough to reach the final of the World Championships.
In the semifinals on this day, Shessui (27, China), who was the champion of this event in Budapest in 2017 and Gwangju in 2019, took first place with 518.00 points.
Wang Zhongyuan (22, China), who is aiming for his third consecutive World Championship title, passed the semifinals in second place with 469.95 points. 바카라사이트
