Hwang Sun-woo, Gold Medal in the 200m Freestyle at the World Championships… 3 Consecutive Medals
Korean swimming, 400m freestyle, following Kim Woo-min, Hwang Sun-woo also won gold... Hwang Sun-woo, the best performer of all time, won all gold, silver, and bronze medals at the World Championships.
Korean swimming ace Hwang Seon-woo (20, Gangwon Provincial Office) performed a 'golden swim' in the men's 200m freestyle at the World Championships. 파워볼사이트
Sunwoo Hwang was the first to touch the pad with a time of 1 minute 44.75 seconds in the men's 200m freestyle final at the 2024 International Aquatics Federation World Championships held at the Aspire Dome in Doha, Qatar, on the 14th (Korean time).
He beat second place Danas Rapsis (28, Lithuania), who finished the race in 1 minute 45.05 seconds, by 0.30 seconds.
Luke Hobson (20, USA) took third place with 1 minute 45.26 seconds.
Sunwoo Hwang, who started first with a reaction time of 0.62 seconds, maintained the lead by turning the 50m in 24.24 seconds and the 100m in 50.57 seconds.
He lost the lead to Hobson at the 150m mark, but increased his speed and secured first place by running the last 50m in 26.89 seconds.
In the final 50m, Guddan Rapsis' record was 26.92 seconds and Hobson's record was 27.81 seconds.
‘World Championship Champion’ Hwang Sun-woo grabbed the microphone immediately after the game and said in English, “I didn’t expect to win, but I did my best and did it in the end,” and added, “I am grateful to the coaches and colleagues who supported me.”
David Popovic (Romania), who won over Hwang Sun-woo in Budapest in 2022, Matthew Richards, who won first place in the 2023 Fukuoka Games, and Tom Dean (Great Britain), who ranked second, did not participate in the 200m freestyle at the Doha Games.
Hwang Sun-woo was selected as the ‘most likely winner’ and actually became the 200m freestyle world championship champion.
Hwang Seon-woo, who became the first Korean swimmer to win a medal at two consecutive World Championships by taking second place (1 minute 44.47 seconds) in Budapest in 2022 and third place (1 minute 44.42 seconds) in Fukuoka in 2023, won three times in Doha.
Climbed to the podium in succession.
The individual's third world championship medal was gold.
This is the first time that a Korean athlete won a gold medal in the 200m freestyle.
Thanks to Hwang Sun-woo's performance, Korean swimming won its fourth gold medal at the World Championships.
Previously, Park Tae-hwan (34) won gold for the first time in Korea in the 400m freestyle at the 2007 Melbourne Games, and struck gold in the same event in Shanghai in 2011.
Kim Woo-min (22, Gangwon Provincial Office), who started a renaissance in Korean swimming with Hwang Sun-woo, won the men's 400m freestyle event on the 12th, becoming the first Korean gold medalist in 13 years since Park Tae-hwan.
With Hwang Sun-woo standing at the top of the podium in the 200m freestyle, Korean swimming achieved a brilliant result by winning two or more gold medals at a single world championship for the first time.
With Hwang Seon-woo winning the gold medal that day, the number of medals won by Korean swimmers at the World Aquatics Championships increased to 10 (4 gold, 1 silver, and 5 bronze).
Hwang Sun-woo holds three World Championship medals and is tied for first place with Park Tae-hwan (2 gold, 1 bronze) and diving Kim Su-ji (3 bronze) for the most medals among Koreans.
Last year, Hwang Sun-woo won a bronze medal at the Fukuoka World Championships in July, and 6 medals (2 gold, 2 silver, and 2 bronze) at the Hangzhou Asian Games in September.
He won the 200m freestyle at the Hangzhou Asian Games, breaking his own Korean record again with a time of 1 minute 44.40 seconds.
Now, the only blank space left on Hwang Sun-woo's medal resume is 'Olympic Games.'
Sunwoo Hwang will wear the armband of ‘World Championship Champion’ and participate in the Paris Olympics opening in July.
He also has a chance to add to his medals at the World Championships in Doha.
Sunwoo Hwang will compete in the 100m freestyle individual event and the 800m men's relay team event.
Although he has yet to win a world championship medal in the 100m freestyle, Swim Swam, a media outlet specializing in swimming, predicted that the first to third place in the 100m freestyle at this competition would be Fan Zhanle (China), Alessandro Miresi (Italy), and Hwang Sun-woo.
For the men's 100m freestyle, the preliminary round will be held on the afternoon of the 14th, the semifinals on the morning of the 15th, and the medal color will be decided on the 16th.
The men's 800m relay will have preliminary rounds on the afternoon of the 16th and finals on the morning of the 17th.
The Korean national team, which will consist of Hwang Sun-woo, Kim Woo-min, Lee Ho-jun (22, Jeju City Hall), and Lee Yu-yeon (23, Goyang City Hall), is considered a candidate to win this tournament. 카지노사이트
Hwang Sun-woo, who comfortably won the gold medal in the main event, the 200m freestyle, will become the Korean individual with the most medals at the World Aquatics Championships if he adds just one medal.
If she reaches the podium in both the 100m freestyle and 800m relay, she will also set a new record for the most medals won by a Korean in a single competition (currently Park Tae-hwan and Kim Su-ji's two).
