Han Woon (B1, 2nd period), who started keirin in 2002 at the tender age of 30, has just reached the 100-victory milestone in her career and is looking forward to new challenges.
In her rookie year, Han and other second-year athletes had a very difficult time. While the senior first-year players led the way with their battle-hardened performances, the second-year players had to rely on the knowledge they had gained during their short time together.
However, Han showed promise as a rookie. In 2003, he won eight races, posting a 17.8 percent win rate, 24.4 percent solidarity rate, 44.4 percent triple solidarity rate, and an average start time of 0.45 seconds, with five wins in the No. 1 and No. 2 spots and three wins in the No. 4 and No. 5 spots, showing his strength in the No. 1 and No. 2 spots.
The following year, in 2004, he recorded 15 wins, the most in a single year in his career. She had her best season ever with a 16.5% win rate, 41.8% tiebreak rate, 63.7% triple tiebreak rate, and an average start time of 0.37 seconds, all of which were an improvement over her first year of competition. In June of that year, she was honored by being named the Journalists' Player of the Year. Out of his 15 wins, he won nine races in the first and second rows, five in the third and fourth rows, and one in the fifth row, showing an even performance across all rows compared to the previous year.
However, since then, his performance has plummeted. The main culprit was a slow average start time, a lack of quickness. This is because the start of a race is as important as the 100-meter dash in track and field.
Han worked tirelessly to improve her shortcomings and improved her average start time by 0.25 seconds this year. Confident that her shortcomings had been overcome, she went into the second race on Wednesday (Jan. 10) and won with a start time of 0.18 seconds, giving her 99 career wins.
Everyone expected that the 100th win of his career would not be too far away, but he had a downturn again, as his start time stabilized somewhat, but he struggled in the first round. He was finally assigned to the fifth course in the 13th race on Wednesday (March 27), but after the poke, he made an aggressive first-round move to reach the long-awaited 100-win milestone.
There is one more player who has reached the 100-victory milestone. That would be Kim Do-hwi, 13th.
He started playing the sport in 2014. There are currently four members of the 13th class, and while Kim Min-joon is the leader of the 13th class, Kim Do-hwi is also making waves in Misari.
In his rookie year, Kim won three matches, one more than Kim Min-joon. In his 11th year of competition, he has one more win than Pyeong (2).
It was quite difficult to win as a rookie because the experience of seniors cannot be ignored in the sport, but with his youthful ambition, he capitalized on his stable start and gradually began to prove himself.
It wasn't until 2017 that he started to make a name for himself, with 12 wins in that year and 14 wins in 2019, that he became a force to be reckoned with.
In 2022, with 23 1st place wins, 17 2nd place wins, 12 3rd place wins, a 30.7% win rate, a 53.3% solidarity rate, and a 69.3% triple solidarity rate, he was ranked A1 and tied for 14th in the most wins.
In 2023, he had 21 first-place finishes, 28 second-place finishes, and 21 third-place finishes, which was two wins short of the previous year, but he had 20 more second- and third-place finishes than the previous year, showing a stable performance and starting to dream of 100 career wins. On Wednesday (March 6), the 10th day of competition, she won four races to reach 99 career wins, and it took her six attempts to reach the coveted 100-win plateau. He reached the milestone on Wednesday (March 27) in the 13th race of the season with a calm first-round stab to win the third race. He followed that up with three straight wins and now has 102 wins.
One of Kim's strengths is that once he gains momentum, he can go on a winning streak, and he has a 22-year streak of four straight wins. With his quickness and ability to stay calm and collected as the match progresses, he is considered to be a good match for Kim Min-joon.
"Congratulations to Han Woon and Kim Do-hwi for reaching 100 career wins," said Lee Seo-beom, a member of the Kyungjeong Korea Match Analysis Committee. "Han Woon has compensated for his lack of quickness through constant training, so he needs to work harder on his first game development training, and Kim Do-hwi has a weakness when he is assigned to the No. 4 position instead of the No. 1 or No. 2 position, so if he compensates for this, he is expected to achieve even better results this year.