“Toward Olympic Qualification”… Diving and Artistic Team Departs for Doha
Aiming for a ticket to the Paris Olympics at the 2024 World Championships, which opens on February 2 in Doha.
The Korean swimming, diving and artistic swimming teams left for Doha, Qatar to participate in the 2024 World Aquatics Championships.
Eight representative diving athletes, including Woo Ha-ram (National Sports Promotion Foundation) and Kim Su-ji (Ulsan Metropolitan City Hall), and artistic swimming duet Lee Ri-young (Busan Swimming Federation) and Heo Yun-seo (Apgujeong High School), along with their coaching staff, were at the departure hall of Incheon International Airport on the 27th. went out to 카지노사이트
The Doha World Aquatics Championships will be held from February 2 to 19, Korean time.
Diving and artistic swimming competitions will be held from the 2nd to the 10th of the first half of the competition.
The goal of Korean diving and artistic swimming at this competition is to secure a spot at the Paris Olympics.
President of the Korean Swimming Federation Jeong Chang-hoon said, "I believe that diving Woo Ha-ram and Kim Su-ji and artistic swimming duet Lee Ri-young and Heo Yun-seo will qualify for the Paris Olympics in Doha.
All the athletes have worked hard to prepare for the Doha competition.
It is a good event for fans who love Korean swimming.
“I expected to hear some news.”
Woo Ha-ram, who has been struggling with a back injury since 2022, hopes to use this Doha tournament as an inflection point.
At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics held in 2021, Woo Ha-ram ranked 4th in the men's 3m springboard, his best ever result, fostering the 'dream of an Olympic medal' that Korean diving had never imagined before.
However, Woo Ha-ram was unable to participate in the 2022 Budapest World Championships due to back pain, and at the 2023 Fukuoka Games, where he was unable to shake off the aftereffects, he finished only 19th in the men's 3m springboard preliminary round, missing out on a ticket to the semifinals by finishing 18th.
Woo Ha-ram said, “My physical condition is 100% right now.
I wasn't 100% confident until the Hangzhou Asian Games last fall, but starting this year, I can feel that my body has definitely improved, he said.
"Even though my performance wasn't at 100%, I didn't feel any discomfort at all during training.
“First of all, I will advance to the 3m springboard finals to secure a spot at the Paris Olympics and aim for even better results,” he said.
In diving, spots for the Paris Olympics are distributed to the National Olympic Committee (NOC), not to individual athletes.
Winning first place at the Doha World Championships If Haram advances to the 3m springboard final (top 12), Korean diving will virtually secure one spot for the Paris Olympics.
Korean swimming is highly likely to grant the athlete who has secured a spot the right to compete in Paris.
2019 Kim Su-ji, the women's diving star who became the first Korean female athlete to win a World Aquatics Championships medal (1m springboard bronze medal) in Gwangju in 2018, is also aiming to advance to the 3m springboard finals at the Doha Games and secure a spot at the Paris Olympics.
1m springboard and women's synchronized 3m springboard.
Suji Kim, who also competes in the mixed synchronized 3m springboard, said, I will win the Olympic qualification in the 3m springboard and achieve good results in other events as well."""
She added, "I placed 4th in the mixed synchro at the Fukuoka Games last year, and I am expecting even better results this year."
He also showed his desire to win a medal.
A total of 18 teams will participate in the artistic swimming duet competition at the Paris Olympics.
The 10 countries that qualified for the team event and the 5 teams that won the continental championship will receive the right to participate first, and the remaining tickets will be distributed according to the results of the Doha World Championships.
There is a high possibility that duet groups from countries that have qualified for the team event will enter the top ranks of the World Championships, so if they advance to the finals (top 12) at the Doha World Championships, they will likely be eligible to participate in the Paris Olympics.
At last year's Fukuoka World Championships, Heo Yun-seo ranked 6th in the solo free and Lee Ri-young ranked 9th in the solo technical.
The solo event is not an official Olympic event.
In the duet technical and free competition, where the two were paired, they both finished in 13th place, missing out on a ticket to the finals where they had earned 12th place.
At the Hangzhou Asian Games, he placed 4th and unfortunately failed to stand on the podium.
Lee Ri-young and Heo Yun-seo said, "As new regulations were applied to artistic swimming, accuracy of movement became more important.
We focused on training on the parts that were points deducted at the Hangzhou Asian Games.
Everyone judged that they performed the 180-degree turn perfectly.
"We improved the technical aspects so that we could win, and tried not to miss out on the artistic aspects as well. 토토사이트 백링크
If we do what we have prepared properly, we will be able to qualify for the Paris Olympics, he said."
If Lee Ri-young and Heo Yun-seo's wishes come true, Korean artistic swimming will be able to compete in the Olympic finals for the first time in 12 years since the 2012 London Games.