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Sports Climbing Relay, Bronze Medal for Both Korean Men and Women

13 november 2023

Sports Climbing Relay, Bronze Medal for Both Korean Men and Women

[Asian Games] “I Trusted my Colleagues”… Sports Climbing Relay, Bronze Medal for Both Korean Men and Women



Women's Choi Na-woo, Jeong Ji-min, Noh Hee-joo, men's Jeong Yong-jun, Lee Seung-beom, Lee Yong-su relay 3rd place

The Korean sports climbing men's and women's speed teams won bronze medals in the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games relay.

The Korean women's speed relay team, consisting of Choi Na-woo (Family Mountaineering Club), Jeong Ji-min (North Face Climbing Team), and Noh Hee-ju (Family Mountaineering Club), competed in the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games Sports Climbing Women's Speed ​​Relay held at Yangsan Climbing Center in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China, on the 4th. In the third place match, they beat Kazakhstan with a time of 26.901 seconds and 27.998 seconds.

The Korean men's speed team, consisting of Yongjun Jeong (Daegu City Sports Council), Seungbeom Lee (Central Gyeongnam Climbing), and Lee Yongsu (Ohyeon High School), also defeated Singapore with a time of 17.827 seconds and 23.169 seconds in the third place match.

After the game, women's Noh Hee-joo said in an interview with the organizing committee, "It's really unbelievable.

I believed that if we trusted each other, we would be able to accomplish anything.

Our trust in each other led to this result." 바카라사이트

Yongjun Jeong of the men's team also said, "I am happy to finish the competition with a bronze medal.

The relay race is more tense and fun than the individual race.

I trusted my teammates," and cited 'trust' as a factor in winning the medal.

In the speed relay, the 15m high rock wall is divided into two, and the first runner climbs the left rock wall and presses the button, the second runner starts from the right rock wall, and the third runner starts from the left rock wall.

The Korean women's national team improved its chances of winning a medal by passing the preliminary round in second place, and the men's national team also got a chance to stand on the podium.

Sports climbing first became an official event at the Asian Games in 2018, and at that time, Korea won one gold (Jong-won Cheon, men's team), one silver (Sasol, women's team), and one bronze (Ja-in Kim, women's team) at the combine.

He failed to win a medal in the speed event of his first competition.

Unfortunately, at the Hangzhou Asian Games, they did not win a medal in the men's and women's individual speed competition on the 3rd.

However, it was different in the relay race where three people worked together.

The women's team placed second in the preliminaries with a time of 25.151 seconds, behind China with a time of 21.877.

Although they lost to Indonesia in the semifinals, they won the third place match and earned a valuable bronze medal.

The men's national team ranked 5th in the preliminary round, advanced to the quarterfinals, defeated Kazakhstan, and advanced to the semifinals.

The men's national team also failed to advance to the finals after being defeated by Indonesia, but did not miss out on a medal.

China won both the men's and women's speed relay finals, defeating Indonesia.