[Asian Games] Hwang Sun-woo, Who has Solidified his Position as the Best in Asia, Is Now Heading for a Medal at the Paris Olympics
Tae-hwan Park is the second Korean athlete to hold both Asian Games and World Aquatics Championships medals, and the only Korean swimming Olympic medalist is Tae-hwan Park... Looking forward to Sunwoo Hwang in the 200m freestyle in Paris
Hwang Seon-woo (20, Gangwon Provincial Office) reaffirmed his status as ‘Asia’s strongest’ in the 200m freestyle.
Sunwoo Hwang's dream of reaching the top of the Asian stage reaches the Paris Olympics. 먹튀검증가이드
Sunwoo Hwang won the men's 200m freestyle final at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games swimming event held at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center swimming pool in Zhejiang, China, on the 27th with a time of 1 minute 44.40 seconds.
Hwang Sun-woo, who was disappointed after winning a bronze medal in the 100m freestyle on the 24th with a time of 48.04, rebounded by digging for gold with his colleagues in the 800m men's relay on the 25th.
Following his silver medal in the 400m men's medley relay on the 26th, he won a gold medal in the 200m freestyle.
It means a lot to me to become the Asian Games champion in my main event, the 200m freestyle.
The joy was doubled as he broke his own Korean record (previously 1 minute 44.42 seconds) and the competition record held by Park Tae-hwan (1 minute 44.80 seconds).
Sun-Woo Hwang ranked second (1 minute 44.47 seconds) at the 2022 Budapest World Championships, and took third place (1 minute 44.42 seconds) in Fukuoka this year, achieving the goal of ‘winning two medals in a row’, which even Tae-Hwan Park could not achieve.
A great achievement was achieved.
Sun-Woo Hwang won two gold medals in his first Asian Games, making him the first Korean swimmer to win two gold medals in a single Asian Games 13 years after Tae-Hwan Park.
Five years ago, on August 13, 2018, five days before the opening of the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games, Hwang Seon-woo, a third-year student at Seoul Bodyweight at the time, won three gold medals in the 50m butterfly, 800m relay, and 400m medley relay at the President's Cup National Swimming Competition, becoming the best athlete of the competition. (MVP).
During this time, Hwang Sun-woo became the face of the Korean swimming team, and his international competitiveness was also confirmed by his two consecutive World Championship medals.
Hwang Seon-woo, who has terms and conditions, is following the path taken by Park Tae-hwan, the best swimmer of all time in Korea.
Park Tae-hwan has 14 Asian Games medals (6 gold, 3 silver, 5 bronze), 4 Olympic medals (1 gold, 3 silver), and 3 long course (50m) World Championship medals (2 gold, 5 bronze). won 1 bronze).
Sun-woo Hwang collected four Asian Games medals (2 gold, 1 silver, and 1 bronze) with the 400m mixed medley relay and the 400m men's relay remaining.
Currently, he is tied for second place with the most medals in swimming management at a single Asian Games, and if he adds one more medal, he will be in second place alone in this category, following Park Tae-hwan (7 in Doha 2006, 7 in Guangzhou 2010).
Hwang Sun-woo, who has already won two World Championship medals, became the second Korean swimmer to hold both Asian Games and World Championship medals, following Park Tae-hwan.
Sunwoo Hwang became the first Korean athlete and the first Asian athlete to reach the finals in this event in the 100m freestyle at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, 65 years after Atsushi Tani (Japan) at the 1956 Melbourne Games.
In the 200m freestyle preliminaries, he set a new Korean record and a new world junior record at the time of 1 minute 44.62 seconds and advanced to the semifinals. After that, he became the first Korean athlete to reach the Olympic management finals in 9 years since Park Tae-hwan at the 2012 London Games and took 7th place.
Sunwoo Hwang's 100m freestyle record was stagnant, but he lowered his personal best record for the 200m freestyle to 1 minute 44.40 seconds.
It also came close to Sun Yang's Asian record (1 minute 44.39 seconds) by 0.01 seconds.
No matter what competition he participates in, Hwang Sun-woo is considered a candidate to win the 200m freestyle.
Thanks to Hwang Sun-woo, Korean fans can look forward to seeing a Korean swimmer stand on the podium at the Paris Olympics, which opens on July 26 next year, for the first time in 12 years since Park Tae-hwan (two silver medals) at the 2012 London Games.
If Hwang Sun-woo wins his first Olympic medal in gold, Korean swimming will produce an Olympic gold medalist for the first time in 16 years since Park Tae-hwan at the 2008 Beijing Games.
Sunwoo Hwang's dream is also to win a gold medal at the Paris Olympics.
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