Kim Woo-min, World Swimming Gold Winner After 13 Years... “Please also Attend the Paris Olympics”
World Championships men's 400m freestyle first place since Park Tae-hwan in 2011.
Kim Woo-min (22, Gangwon Provincial Office, photo), Korea's leading mid-to-long-distance swimmer, won the gold medal in the men's 400m freestyle at the World Championships.
It has been 13 years since Park Tae-hwan in 2011 that a Korean athlete won a gold medal at the World Championships.
Kim Woo-min won the gold medal with a time of 3 minutes 42.71 seconds in the men's 400m freestyle final at the '2024 Doha International Aquatics Federation World Championships' held at the Aspire Dome in Doha, Qatar, on the 12th (Korean time).
He also had the honor of being named the first gold medalist in the management category at this competition. 카지노사이트킹
This is the first gold medal for a Korean athlete in 13 years since Park Tae-hwan won the men's 400m event in Melbourne in 2007 and Shanghai in 2011.
In the past, the only Korean players to have become ‘champion’ at the World Championships are Tae-hwan Park and Woo-min Kim.
On this day, Kim Woo-min beat his previous personal best record (3 minutes 43.92 seconds) by 1 second and 21 seconds.
She beat 2nd place Elijah Winnington (23, Australia) by 0.15 seconds.
Third place was Lucas Martens (22, Germany) with 3 minutes 42.96 seconds.
Kim Woo-min, who recorded a time of 3 minutes 45.14 seconds in the preliminaries, placed third out of 55 people and won a ticket to the finals.
Few people expected Kim Woo-min to win, given that many prominent competitors such as Winnington, gold medalist at the 2022 Budapest World Championships, and Ahmed Hafnaoui (Tunisia), champion at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, participated.
When I opened the lid, it was Kim Woo-min's solo stage.
Kim Woo-min, who ran hard from the beginning, turned around 50 meters and rose to first place.
He maintained his world record pace until the 300m mark, beating second place by one body length.
His speed dropped after that, but he was the first to hit the touchpad based on the gap he opened early on.
Kim Woo-min looked very surprised after checking the electronic display board.
Kim Woo-min has been showing rapid growth recently. In the men's 400m event, he placed 6th at the 2022 Budapest Games and 5th at the 2023 Fukuoka Games.
At the Hangzhou Asian Games held last fall, he won three gold medals (800m freestyle, 800m men's relay), including reaching the top of the 400m freestyle.
Kim Woo-min, who solidified his position as 'Asia's strongest middle and long distance distance' in this competition, has emerged as a 'candidate to win the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics.'
Kim Woo-min said through his agency right after the game, “It is meaningful and rewarding to start off with a gold medal at the first World Championships.
Even though I am not in the best condition, I think such a good result will have a positive impact on the Olympic race.”
Kim Woo-min has the men's 800m freestyle race left on the 13th and the men's 800m relay race on the 16th.
The 800m relay, in which Korea participates with Hwang Sun-woo (20, Gangwon Provincial Office), Lee Ho-jun (22, Daegu Metropolitan City Hall), and Lee Yu-yeon (23, Goyang City Hall), is an event that Korea has trained intensively for with the aim of winning its first ever World Championships team medal.