'Back-hearted' Hwang Sun-woo becomes world champion in the 200m freestyle, something even Park Tae-hwan couldn't do.

Won a gold medal at the World Aquatics Championships. At the Tokyo Olympics, he was pushed out with 50 meters to go. This time, he took the lead with 10 meters to go in the last minute. “The result was good because I had enough energy left for the final.”

Sunwoo Hwang (center) standing on the podium with Danas Rapsis (left), who won the silver medal, and Luke Hobson, who won the bronze medal.  카지노사이트

Hwang Sun-woo (21) became the first Korean swimmer to become the 200m freestyle world champion.

Sunwoo Hwang won the gold medal with a time of 1 minute 44.75 seconds in the men's 200m freestyle final at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships held in Doha, Qatar on the 14th. Next, Danas Rapsis (29, Lithuania) took second place with 1 minute 45.05 seconds, and Luke Hobson (21, USA) took third place with 1 minute 45.26 seconds.

Sunwoo Hwang's gold medal in the men's 200m freestyle at the World Aquatics Championships is the second record among Asian athletes. Previously, Sun Yang (33, China) recorded two consecutive wins in this event at the 2017 Budapest Games and the 2019 Gwangju Games. ‘Marine Boy’ Park Tae-hwan (35) won two silver medals in this event at the Olympics (Beijing 2008 and London 2012), but his best performance at the World Championships is the bronze medal at the 2007 Melbourne Games.

Sunwoo Hwang is raising his hand in joy after checking the records and rankings on the electronic display board after finishing the race in the men's 200m freestyle final at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships held in Doha, Qatar, on the 14th. 

Even before the opening of the competition, Hwang Sun-woo was evaluated as the strongest candidate to win this event. 2021 Tokyo Olympics gold medalist Tom Dean (24, Great Britain, 1 minute 44.22 seconds) has a better personal record than Hwang Sun-woo (1 minute 44.40 seconds), and David Popovich (20, Romania, 1 minute 42), winner of the 2022 Budapest World Championships. This is because Matthew Richards (21, Great Britain, 1 minute 44.30 seconds), last year's world championship champion in Fukuoka, did not participate in the 200m freestyle, saying they would focus on preparing for the Paris Olympics (July).

However, I couldn't feel completely at ease. This is because of the painful memories of the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, where they missed out on winning the championship. Hwang Sun-woo maintained the lead until the 150m mark, but fell short in the last 50m and ended up finishing in 7th place. Because of this, Hwang Seon-woo was labeled as ‘lack of patience.’

This day was completely different. Seonwoo Hwang, who started in lane 5, took the lead until the first 100m section, widening the gap from second place by more than 1m. Then he gave up the lead to Hobson just before the 130m mark. However, he succeeded in reversing the race with the last 10 meters left and was the first to hit the touchpad.

This is the first time that Hwang Sun-woo achieved a come-from-behind victory in a major tournament with a last-minute spurt. Regarding this, there was an evaluation in the swimming world that Hwang Sun-woo's efforts to steadily accumulate experience in international competitions and improve his race management skills through training in Australia bore fruit. Sunwoo Hwang completed his training schedule in Gold Coast, Australia from the 5th of last month to the 3rd of this month, then came to Doha without 'tapering' (lowering the intensity of training and focusing on conditioning) and participated in this competition.

Hwang Seon-woo, who won a silver medal in this event at the 2022 Budapest Games and a bronze medal in the same event at the Fukuoka Games last year, also became the first Korean swimmer to win three consecutive world championships. Hwang Sun-woo was also the first to win two consecutive competitions. By collecting all the gold, silver, and bronze medals at the World Championships, Hwang Sun-woo became tied for the most medals among Korean athletes along with Park Tae-hwan (2 gold, 1 bronze) and Kim Su-ji (26), who won 3 bronze medals in diving.

Sunwoo Hwang said, “I really wanted to win a gold medal after only winning silver and bronze medals at the World Championships, and I am happy that I achieved my goal.” He added, “I was not feeling well until the preliminaries, but my condition improved enough to save energy for the finals during the semifinals. . I think this gold medal can have a positive impact on the Paris Olympics. He said, “I will try to break the invitational record of 1 minute and 43 minutes at the Olympics.”

In this competition, Kim Woo-min (23) won the men's 400m freestyle gold medal before Hwang Sun-woo. This is the first time that two Korean athletes won gold medals at the World Championships. The two athletes, along with Jaehoon Yang (26) and Hojun Lee (23), will challenge for the gold medal in the 800m relay starting on the 16th. If they, who won the first gold medal in Korean swimming team history at last year's Hangzhou Asian Games, also win the 800m relay at this competition, they will become the first two people to win two world championships at the same time in the history of Korean swimming.  안전 토토사이트