Appengers, Who Remain at the Top of Asia Without Fail
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[Asian Games] ‘Appengers’, Who Remain at the Top of Asia Without Fail… Just Like this, Until Paris
‘Sabre Dream Team’ with Kim Jeong-hwan and Kim Jun-ho alive and well with Oh Sang-wook and Koo Bon-gil competing for the individual championship
Asia was small for them again this year.
'Olympic champions' Oh Sang-wook (26, Daejeon Metropolitan City Hall), Koo Bon-gil (34), Kim Jeong-hwan (40, Korea Sports Promotion Foundation), and Kim Jun-ho (29, Hwaseong City Hall) maintained their place at the Asian Games, making it to the next Olympics, which is less than a year away.
Edo also turned on the green light. 온라인카지노
These four men who jointly won Korea's gold medal in the team event at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games held on the 28th are representative runners who have led the Korean men's saber team as members of the team event at international competitions since around 2016.
At the 2012 London Olympics, after Won Woo-young, Oh Eun-seok, Koo Bon-gil, and Kim Jeong-hwan won gold medals in the team event, the Korean men's saber team went through a transitional period of generational change with Won Woo-young and Oh Eun-seok putting down the Taegeuk mark.
Since then, with the growth of Oh Sang-wook and Kim Jun-ho, they have become a world-class team. .
Veterans Koo Bon-gil and Kim Jeong-hwan, who have been on the national team for over 10 years and have experienced many hardships, have been joined by two 'younger brothers' with physique and basic skills, creating a 'one team' that is second to none in any country in the world.
They achieved the first team title in Korean men's saber history together at the 2017 World Championships, and recorded four consecutive wins until last year.
All four players were there except for Kim Jung-hwan, who did not play as he temporarily put down the Taegeuk mark in 2019.
At the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games and the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, he raised the national flag on top of the podium in the men's saber team event, taking the lead in promoting the 'filial piety' of fencing, the most important sport in international competitions.
All four of them, nicknamed 'Avengers (Fencing+Avengers)', had a neat appearance and were eloquent. After winning the Olympic gold medal, they emerged as the 'top candidates' for broadcasting, and were also very active in entertainment programs.
Despite this, they achieved success in various international competitions and ranked first in the world rankings in the team event.
They succeeded in winning their third consecutive team event at the Asian Championships in June this year, revealing their prospects for the Asian Games.
The World Championships in July were a brief crisis as Kim Jung-hwan was unable to participate due to a hamstring injury.
They reached the finals, but were defeated by Hungary, led by Aaron Silaj, who won three consecutive Olympic individual titles, and failed to win the team event for the fifth time in a row.
However, competing in the Asian Games with the ‘returned eldest brother’ was different.
Koo Bon-gil and Oh Sang-wook met in the finals of the individual event at the Asian Games for the second time in a row, and successfully defended their titles together in the team event, making it clear that they have no rivals in Asia.
With the Tokyo Olympics and the Asian Games being postponed for a year due to the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19), the next Olympics are only 10 months away.
After entering his late 30s, Kim Jung-hwan, who said 'this might be his last time' every time he competed, confirmed that he will take on the challenge of next year's Olympics, so the 'golden breath' of the 'Appengers' that he will show once again as a member is already there. Raise expectations.
Kim Jeong-hwan, who played the role of de facto 'playing coach' for the men's saber team, which currently does not have a dedicated coach, said, "I felt a lot of pressure as I had high expectations of winning the gold medal.
I thought that even if I won the gold medal, I would get my due, so I was worried that I would be criticized if I didn't win the gold medal, but we “We were more prepared than we thought,” he said, adding, “We each showed off our skills to the fullest.”
He emphasized, “I am happy that I was able to live up to the expectations with a gold medal,” and added, “I will continue to show an even better performance as I prepare for the Paris Olympics.”