[Asian Games] 44 Years Old Kim Kwan-woo, A Fighting Game Expert, Wins Gold Medal as a Street Fighter
A close match with Taiwan... Won 4:3 in the last set
Kim Kwan-woo (44), a 'fighting game veteran', won the Street Fighter V gold medal at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games. 스포츠토토
Kim Kwan-woo defeated Taiwan's Xiang Yu-lin with a set score of 4-3 to win the Street Fighter V final held at the Hangzhou Esports Center in China on the 28th.
Kim Kwan-woo, who has enjoyed fighting games for over 30 years, stands tall as the genre's first champion.
With e-sports becoming an official sport starting from this competition, it is also the first historic gold medal won by the Korean national team in that sport.
Previously, Kwak Jun-hyuk (23, KT Rolster) of FC Online won the bronze medal, giving Korean e-sports its first ever Asian Games medal.
Kim Kwan-woo and Xiang Yeo-ul-rin had a close match on this day.
In the first set, Kim Kwan-woo chose Vega and Shang Yeo-ul-rin chose Lucia.
Kim Kwan-woo lost his first game, but hit a series of special moves in the remaining two games to take the first set.
Xiang Yu-lin changed his character to Luke in the second set and used a series of checking techniques against Kim Kwan-woo's Vega from a distance to block his approach, returning the set score to 1:1 and taking the third set.
Kim Kwan-woo showed his concentration and regained balance by taking the 4th set, and in the 5th set, he won in a spurt by using combo techniques against Taiwan, who changed the character to Lucia again.
However, Taiwan again won the 6th set for 2 consecutive games, bringing the set score to 3:3.
A decisive 7-set match with the gold medal at stake. In the first game, Kwan-Woo Kim overpowered Taiwan by unilaterally hitting the technique.
Xiang Yulin tried to counterattack in the second game, but Kim Kwan-woo calmly defended himself and continued to reduce his opponent's stamina, winning the second game and winning the final gold medal.