Korean swimming star Hwang Seon-woo (21, Gangwon Provincial Office) won the gold medal in the men’s 200m freestyle at the World Championships.
Hwang Sun-woo competes in the semi-finals of the men’s 200m freestyle at the 2024 International Aquatics Federation World Championships in Doha, Qatar. / Yonhap News Reuters
Sunwoo Hwang set the fastest touchpad with a time of 1 minute 44.75 seconds in the men’s 200m freestyle final at the Qatar International Federation Doha 2024 World Championships held at the Aspire Dome in Doha, Qatar, on the 14th (Korea time). The record on this day fell short of the new Korean record (1 minute 44.40 seconds) set by Hwang Sun-woo when he won the gold medal in the same event at the Hangzhou Asian Games last year.
Sunwoo Hwang, who placed 2nd overall out of 16 people (1 minute 45.15 seconds) in the semi-final and was assigned lane 5, jumped into the water with a reaction speed of 0.62 seconds and took first place from the first 50m (24 seconds). 24) and went out. Although he briefly lost the lead when making a turn at the 150m mark, he broke through the water with an explosive spurt and finished the race in first place.
In second place was Danas Rapsis (29, Lithuania, 1 minute 45.05 seconds), and Luke Hobson (21, USA, 1 minute 45.26 seconds) took the bronze medal.
In the men’s 200m freestyle at the Doha World Championships, the top athletes withdrew or reduced the number of events they competed in to improve their condition for the Paris Olympics due to be held in July. In fact, David Popovic (20, Romania), the 2022 winner of this event and world junior record holder (1 minute 42.97 seconds), skipped this competition, and Matthew Richards (22, 1 minute 44.30 seconds), who was first in the competition last year, Tom Dean (24, 1 minute 44.32 seconds, UK), who was in second place, competed in a different event.
Seonwoo Hwang. /happy news
With fewer competitors, this competition was seen as the ‘right time’ for Hwang Sun-woo to win a gold medal in the main event, and made the possibility a reality. He won a silver medal (1 minute 44.47 seconds) in the 200m freestyle at the Budapest 2022 World Championships and a bronze medal (1 minute 44.42 seconds) in the same event at the Fukuoka Games last year, and this time he experienced the splendor of collecting a gold medal.
In addition, Hwang Sun-woo became the first Korean swimmer to win medals in three consecutive World Championships. The long course (50m) World Aquatic Championships were originally held once every two years. However, in 2020, as the coronavirus swept the world and various competitions were repeatedly postponed, it was held for three consecutive years to include the World Championships, which were not held until now.
Before Hwang Sun-woo, Kim Woo-min (23, Gangwon Provincial Office) won the men’s 400m freestyle in this competition, making Korean swimming history by becoming the first to win more than two gold medals in a single world championship. They also had intensive training in Australia for about four weeks just before the competition.
Korean swimmers Hwang Seon-woo (left) and Kim Woo-min. /News 1
Hwang Sun-woo and Kim Woo-min join Lee Ho-jun (23, Jeju City Hall) and Lee Yu-yeon (24, Goyang City Hall), who had been training together in Australia, and dreams of ‘golden’. comeback’ in the men’s 800m relay to be held starting on the 16th. The 800m relay is a team event where the final positions are determined by adding up the times of four athletes from one team each swimming 200m freestyle. The finals of the 800m relay will be held on the 17th at 2:33 am Korean time.
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