‘5 Medals, Including 2 Gold’ Korean Swimming, Best Performance Ever at the World Championships

First gold medalist in 13 years since Park Tae-hwan... Hwang Seon-woo, who won his first medal in the team event, surpassed Park Tae-hwan and became the number one medalist among Korean athletes in diving and artistic swimming, which is also a blessing in disguise.

Korean swimming broke a ‘first record’ in Doha, Qatar.

The 2024 International Swimming Federation World Championships can be remembered as a competition that confirmed the growth of Korean swimming and opened the door to a brighter future. 바카라사이트 추천

Of course, many swimming stars did not participate in this competition to prepare for the Paris Olympics, which opens in July.

However, Korean swimming held a ‘Paris Olympics rehearsal’ in Doha

Despite the pressure of competing at the World Championships in February of this year after a tight schedule including the Fukuoka World Championships in July of last year, the Hangzhou Asian Games in September, the National Sports Festival in October, and the National Team Selection Competition in November, Korean swimming has achieved several shining milestones.

At the World Championships, which opened on February 2 and closed on the 19th, Korean swimming won 5 medals (2 gold, 1 silver, and 2 bronze).

Before the Doha Games, Korean swimming had won a total of 6 medals at the World Championships (2 gold, 1 silver, and 3 bronze).

If you look at the events in which medals were won, the report card from Doha becomes even more spectacular.

First, first, first… Renaissance Kite Golden Generation

Until last year, there was only one Korean athlete, Park Tae-hwan (34), who had won a gold medal at the World Aquatics Championships.

However, in Doha, Korean swimming produced two champions.

Kim Woo-min (22, Gangwon Provincial Office) won the men's 400m freestyle with a personal best of 3 minutes 42.71 seconds, becoming the first Korean gold medalist at the World Championships in 13 years since Park Tae-hwan in 2011.

Ace' Hwang Seon-woo (20, Gangwon Provincial Office) won gold in the men's 200m freestyle swim with a time of 1 minute 44.75 seconds.

This Doha Games is the first time that Korea has won two gold medals at a world championship.

Hwang Seon-woo and Kim Woo-min, who were crowned 'World Championship individual event champions', included Lee Ho-jun (22, Jeju City Hall), Yang Jae-hoon (25, Gangwon Provincial Office, only participating in the finals), and Lee Yu-yeon (23, Goyang City Hall, only participating in the preliminaries).

Together with his generational colleagues, he won a silver medal (7 minutes 01.94 seconds) in the men's 800m relay.

Although they lost the title of 'the first Asian team to win the Men's 800m Relay World Championships' by 0.1 seconds behind China (7:01.84), the Golden Generation achieved the feat of winning the first World Championships team event medal in Korean swimming history.