The Golden Generation, Including Hwang Sun-woo and Kim Woo-min
The Golden Generation, Including Hwang Sun-woo and Kim Woo-min, Advanced to the Finals by Finishing Second in the Men's 800m Relay Preliminaries
Securing qualification for the Paris Olympics... On the morning of the 17th, the first team medal challenge in Korean swimming history
The 'golden generation', aiming to win the first team medal at the World Championships in Korean swimming history, has safely passed the first hurdle.
The Korean national team consisted of Lee Ho-jun (22, Jeju City Hall), Lee Yu-yeon (23, Goyang City Hall), Kim Woo-min (22), and Hwang Sun-woo (20) in the men's 800m relay preliminaries at the 2024 International Aquatics Federation World Championships held at the Aspire Dome in Doha, Qatar on the 16th. ·Gangwon Provincial Office above) finished the race in 7 minutes 07.61 seconds, and advanced to the finals (top 8 teams) in 2nd place out of 15 teams. 바카라사이트
In Korea, which competed in Group 2, Lee Ho-jun finished the race in 3rd place and Yu-yeon Lee finished the race in 2nd place.
Kim Woo-min rose to 1st place and passed the baton to the last athlete, Hwang Sun-woo.
Hwang Sun-woo retained Korea's first place in Group 2 even though he relaxed slightly at the end of the race.
Second place in Group 2 was Italy (3rd overall), which finished the race in 7 minutes 08.48 seconds.
China, with a team of Zhi Xinjie, Zhang Zhanshuo, Wang Haoyu, and Fan Zhanle, competed in Group 1 and took first place in the preliminary round with a time of 7 minutes 06.93 seconds.
The Korean relay team defeated China at the Hangzhou Asian Games in September last year and became the Asian champion.
The Korean men's 800m relay team will attempt to win a medal in the finals, which starts at 2:33 a.m. on the 17th, Korean time.
By passing the preliminaries, they also secured the right to participate in the Paris Olympics, which opens in July.
A total of 16 teams will participate in the men's 800m relay at the Paris Olympics.
Britain, the United States, and Australia, which ranked 1st to 3rd at the Fukuoka World Championships last year, have already qualified for the Paris Olympics.
The remaining 13 tickets will be distributed by combining the results from the 2023 Fukuoka Games and the 2024 Doha Games.
The Korean men's 800m relay team ranked 6th in Fukuoka last year with a time of 7 minutes 04.07 seconds, and also succeeded in advancing to the finals in Doha this year, comfortably placing it in the 'top 13 teams excluding Britain, the United States, and Australia.'
For the ‘golden generation’ who started the renaissance of Korean swimming, securing a spot at the Paris Olympics was not a difficult task.
Kim Woo-min, who became the men's 400m freestyle champion in Doha, and Hwang Sun-woo, the 200m freestyle gold medalist, said before the start of the competition, "I am looking forward to the relay results as much as the individual events," and added, "The performance of the training camp in Australia was good.
The skills of each relay member are improving. “I’m looking forward to winning a medal,” he said, expressing his motivation.
Outsiders also paid attention to the growth of the Korean national team.
Swimming media outlet Swimswam predicted that the first to third places in the men's 800m relay at the 2024 World Championships would be in that order: Great Britain, Korea, and the United States.
Australia did not participate in the men's 800m relay at all, and England and the United States formed a 'second-tier' team.
As traditional swimming powerhouses withdrew from relay events, Korean men's freestyle swimming saw several players grow at the same time, giving Korean swimming the opportunity to win a world championship team event medal for the first time.
Korea's first team medal in swimming could be dyed gold, as it is said to break the Asian record of 7 minutes 01.73 seconds set at the Hangzhou Asian Games last fall.
Just by standing on the podium in the men's 800m relay, Hwang Sun-woo will surpass Park Tae-hwan and Kim Su-ji (three) and become the individual medalist with the most medals at the World Championships in Korean swimming history.
In the 200m freestyle, Sunwoo Hwang took first place in Doha, winning one gold, one silver, and one bronze medal each, after placing second in Budapest in 2022 and third in Fukuoka in 2023.
He plans to achieve his fourth career World Championship medal together with his teammates.
