[Asian Games] Woo Sang-hyuk Group B and Barsim Group A, Men's High Jump Preliminaries on the Morning of the 2nd
If you exceed 2m28, you automatically advance to the finals... Finals are on the afternoon of the 4th
Track and field men's high jump rivals Woo Sang-hyuk (27, Yongin City Hall) and Mutaz Essa Barsim (32, Qatar) will compete in the preliminary round in another group. 카지노사이트탑
The men's high jump, selected as a 'noteworthy event' by the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games Organizing Committee, will have preliminary rounds on the morning of the 2nd and finals on the afternoon of the 4th.
In the preliminary round held at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center in China on the 2nd, Woo Sang-hyuk was placed in Group B and Barsim was placed in Group A.
Two high jump bars will be installed in the stadium, and a total of 17 people, including 9 from Group A and 8 from Group B, will jump to advance to the finals.
In this competition, if you exceed 2m28, you will automatically advance to the finals, and even if you are in the top 12, you will advance to the finals.
If the top 12 are determined before the bar is raised to 2m28, the preliminaries will end as is.
For world-class jumpers Woo Sang-hyuk and Barshim, the Asian Games preliminaries are more like actual training in preparation for the finals.
Woo Sang-hyuk aims to win his first Asian Games title in this tournament.
Woo Sang-hyuk finished 10th with 2m 20 at the 2014 Incheon Games when he was a high school student, but won a silver medal with 2m 28 at the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Games.
Woo Sang-hyuk, who has become a world-class jumper starting from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics (4th place at 2m 35) held in 2021, won the 2022 World Indoor Championships in Belgrade (2m 34), placed 2nd at the Eugene Outdoor World Championships (2m 35), and won the Diamond League Final this year.
He wrote a new history in Korean track and field, including winning the title (2m35).
However, in Asia, there is Barsim, the ‘best active jumper’.
Barshim won three consecutive world championships in London 2017, Doha 2019, and Eugene 2022, and tied for first place with Gianmarco Tamberi (Italy) at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
He also holds the record of 2m 43, the highest in active history and the second in history.
At the Asian Games, he achieved two consecutive wins in Guangzhou in 2010 and Incheon in 2014, and missed the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Games due to an ankle injury.
Woo Sang-hyuk's personal best record is 2m36.
The season's best record is 2m35, 1cm lower than Barsim's season's best of 2m36.
However, Woo Sang-hyuk grew in confidence by becoming the 2023 Diamond League Final Champion.
It also brings back memories of defeating Barsim in the Doha Diamond League last year.
Among the athletes participating in this competition, there are a total of three athletes, including Barsim, Woo Sang-hyuk, and Majdi Ghazal (Syria), who have a personal best record of over 2m35.
However, Ghazal has not been able to exceed 2m30 since 2019, so he is not classified as Woo Sang-hyuk's rival.
Choi Jin-woo (18, Ulsan Sports Science High School), who competed with Woo Sang-hyuk, plays in the same group A as Barshim and aims to advance to the finals.