[National Sports Festival] ‘Basic event stars’ Woo Sang-hyuk and Hwang Sun-woo, golden roar side by side
Woo Sang-hyuk, 8th Olympic gold medal… Sunwoo Hwang wins 4 gold medals in the 100m freestyle.
Woo Sang-hyuk (Yongin City Hall) and Hwang Seon-woo (Gangwon Provincial Office), the precious ‘basic event stars’ of Korean sports, won gold medals on the same day.
Woo Sang-hyuk won the high jump final in the men’s general division at the 104th Jeonnam National Sports Festival held at Mokpo Stadium in Ulsan on the 18th, exceeding 2m32.
Woo Sang-hyuk, who won the competition in 2013 and 2014 while attending Chungnam High School, and in 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, and 2022 after joining the unemployment team, won his 8th national sports gold medal in his career. 카지노사이트킹
He also won his fourth consecutive title in the men’s high jump event.
Woo Sang-hyuk, who started the race at 2m 15, overtook Park Sun-ho (Yeongju City Hall) at the next height, 2m 21, and confirmed his victory early on.
Afterwards, Woo Sang-hyuk, who continued his ‘fight alone’ by surpassing 2m 32, finally attempted 2m 37 to break his own Korean record of 2m 36, but unfortunately failed to achieve a new record.
Woo Sang-hyuk, who won the silver medal at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games after a close battle with his ‘rival’ Mutaz Essa Barsim (Qatar), will end this season with the National Sports Festival and begin preparations for the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Hwang Sun-woo, who won two gold medals in swimming at the Hangzhou Games, also performed well that day and won his fourth gold medal of the competition.
Sunwoo Hwang won the men’s 100m freestyle event at Mokpo Indoor Swimming Pool with a time of 48.48 seconds.
Sunwoo Hwang, who previously won the 800m relay, 200m freestyle, and 400m relay, won four gold medals by crossing the golden water for four days in a row.
He will challenge for his fifth gold medal in the 400m medley relay held on the 19th.
Hwang Sun-woo will challenge to win the Most Valuable Player Award (MVP) for three consecutive years in this tournament.
At Mokpo Swimming Pool, a shocking scene unfolded where the Korean record for the men’s 100m butterfly was broken again in just 5 minutes.
Kim Young-beom (Gangwon Physical Education High School) set a new Korean record in the men’s high school 100m butterfly final with a time of 51.97 seconds, and in the regular men’s 100m butterfly final, Yang Jae-hoon (Gangwon Provincial Office) tapped the touchpad at 51.85 seconds, 0.12 seconds faster than Kim Young-beom. The smile was erased from his face.
In archery, Im Si-hyeon (Korea National Sport University), the ‘Hangzhou triple gold medalist’, won the ‘return match’ against Ansan (Gwangju Women’s University) and won the gold medal in the women’s university individual competition.
Im Si-hyeon also defeated Ansan in the final of the individual event at the Hangzhou Tournament to win the triple gold medal.
In the men’s general division final, Kim Woo-jin (Cheongju City Hall) defeated Kim Ha-jun (Gongju City Hall) 6-0 (28-27 29-28 28-27) and won the general division individual championship for the first time.
Oh Sang-wook (Daejeon City Hall), who won two gold medals in men’s saber fencing at the Hangzhou Games, also won the individual and team events at the National Sports Festival.
Oh Sang-wook participated as a representative of Daejeon in the men’s general saber team event along with Park Sang-won, Hong Dong-yeol (Daejeon Metropolitan City Hall), and Kim Jae-won (Daejeon University) and led the team to victory.
Oh Sang-wook, who previously won the individual competition on the 13th by winning the final against national team senior Koo Bon-gil (Korea Sports Promotion Foundation), won two gold medals at this year’s National Sports Festival.
In the finals of the men’s volleyball division, the Armed Forces Athletic Corps, led by national team setter Hwang Taek-eui, won the championship by beating the Yeongcheon City Athletic Association with a set score of 3-1 (25-23 25-21 25-27 25-23).
In the finals of the women’s general division, Daegu Metropolitan City Hall, with a large number of professional players such as Baek Mok-hwa and Lee Jin, won the gold medal by defeating Pohang City Sports Association with a set score of 3-1 (25-11 25-17 23-25 25-22).