Korean swimmers are dreaming of winning the gold medal in the team event for the first time in Asian Games history.
Korean swimmers once again raised their hopes in the men’s freestyle 200m final on the fifth day of the KB Financial Korea Swimming Championship (2023 National Business Team Selection Competition) held at the Gimcheon Indoor Swimming Pool in Gyeongbuk on the afternoon of the 29th.
It was no surprise that Hwang Seon-woo (Gangwon Provincial Office), who has already established himself as a world-class athlete and holds the Korean record for this event (1:44:47), was the first to hit the touchpad at 1:45:36.
Following Hwang Seon-woo, the records of swimmers who took touchpads thrilled Korean swimming.
Lee Ho-jun (Daegu Metropolitan City Hall), who had a close match with Hwang Seon-woo until the end, took second place with a time of 1:45:70, just 0.34 seconds behind Hwang Seon-woo. Kim Woo-min (Gangwon Provincial Office) placed third with a time of 1:46:10.
Although it is still early in the season, Hwang Seon-woo and Lee Ho-joon rose to No. 1 and No. 2 in the world rankings this season, surpassing the record (1:46:07) set this month by Tom Dean (Great Britain), gold medalist at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
The tournament will be held in conjunction with the national team selection matches such as the World Championships to be held in Fukuoka, Japan in July and the Asian Games to be held in Hangzhou, China in September.
Hwang Seon-woo, Lee Ho-jun, and Kim Woo-min all passed the International Swimming Federation A record (1:47:06) to qualify for the Fukuoka World Championships.
It is the first time in Korea that three people have surpassed the International League A record in freestyle
According to the Korea Swimming Federation, in the history of Korean swimming, three or more people who passed the international federation standard record were Park Jin-young (retired) and Park Soo-jin (Gyeongbuk Provincial Office) in the women’s 200m butterfly at the 87th Dong-A Swimming Championships, which was held as a selection contest for dispatchers to the 2015 Kazan World Swimming Championships. ), and it is also the first time in 8 years since Ahn Se-hyeon (Ulsan City Hall).
However, since a country can only compete in a maximum of two athletes per event, Hwang Seon-woo and Lee Ho-jun will participate in the 200m freestyle at the World Championships and Asian Games this year.
What is even more encouraging is that the possibility of gold medals in the Asian Games team event has increased.
The 1st to 4th place finishers in the 200m freestyle at this event will become the national team in the 800m relay, a team event.
Yang Jae-hoon (Gangwon Provincial Office, 1 minute 48 seconds 13) ranked 4th on this day, and Lee Yu-yeon (Goyang City Hall, 1 minute 48 seconds 85) ranked 5th.
The men’s 800m relay is an event that the Korea Swimming Federation has been focusing on with the goal of winning the first gold m
The team performance is meaningful because it can only be achieved when the growth of Korean swimming as a whole is the foundation, not a specific player.
The best Korean swimmer ever achieved in a team event at the Asian Games was the silver medal in the men’s relay 800m relay jointly won by Ji Sang-jun, Woo-chul, Woo Won-ki and Bang Seung-hoon at the 1994 Hiroshima Games in Japan.
With the goal of winning the gold medal at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, the federation formed a special strategy training team last year with Hwang Seon-woo, Lee Ho-jun, Kim Woo-min, and Lee Yu-yeon, and conducted six weeks of field training under the guidance of former Australian national team coach Ian Pope in Melbourne, Australia.
The members who participated in the training at the time advanced to the finals for the first time in the history of the team event at the World Championships in Budapest last year and proudly finished 6th with a new Korean record of 7:06:93.
He replaced Lee Yu-yeon with Yang Jae-hun and participated in the short course (25m) World Championships held in Melbourne last December.
Prior to this representative selection, the federation regrouped with Hwang Seon-woo, Lee Ho-joon, Kim Woo-min, and Yang Jae-hoon, and conducted training for about six weeks with former Australian business team coach Richard Skals in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
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With Hwang Seon-woo holding a record of 1:44 seconds in the 200m freestyle, Lee Ho-joon in 1:45 and Kim Woo-min in 1:46, the Asian Games re
He replaced Lee Yu-yeon with Yang Jae-hun and participated in the short course (25m) World Championships held in Melbourne last December.
Prior to this representative selection, the federation regrouped with Hwang Seon-woo, Lee Ho-joon, Kim Woo-min, and Yang Jae-hoon, and conducted training for about six weeks with former Australian business team coach Richard Skals in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
A series of investment effects were evident in this selection.
With Hwang Seon-woo holding a record of 1:44 seconds in the 200m freestyle, Lee Ho-joon in 1:45 and Kim Woo-min in 1:46, the Asian Games relay 800m gold medal dream is gradually becoming a reality.
lay 800m gold medal dream is gradually becoming a reality.
The Asian record for the men’s 800m relay is 7:02.26, set by the Japanese team at the 2009 World Championships in Rome, before regulations on the shape and material of swimsuits were implemented.
At the Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang in 2018, Japan won the gold medal with a new tournament record of 7:05:17.
On this day, the 1st to 4th places in the 200m freestyle, even if the records of the four players are simply combined, are in the early 7 minutes and 5 seconds.
There is a lot of room for the record to be shortened if the race takes over from the second swimmer and runs in a swimming pool with a depth of 3m, which is deeper than the Gimcheon Indoor Swimming Pool (1.8m).
With the growth of Lee Ho-jun and Kim Woo-min, the range of tactical operation can also be widened, such as placing Hwang Seon-woo, who was put forward as the first Englishman every time, as the last Englishman.
The key is how much the player who fills the last puzzle will raise the record, but for Korea, it is a situation worth aiming for a gold medal in the Asian Games this year as well as a prize in the World Championships.
Hwang Seon-woo said through management company All That Sports after the game, “I am very happy that three athletes have exceeded the A record in the 200m freestyle.” I have expectations,” he said.
“Just three to four years ago, I could have won the domestic competition with a record of 1 minute and 48 seconds, but today I was ranked 6th,” he said. “I am very happy that Korean swimming has grown a lot. I will do my best to make good results together with my colleagues at the Asian Games.”
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