Hwang Sun-woo, '3rd round of 2 rounds', advances to the 100m freestyle finals at the World Championships Korea's first swimming feat
Hwang Seon-woo (21, Gangwon Provincial Office) became the first Korean swimmer to reach the finals of the 100m freestyle at the World Aquatics Championships, raising expectations of winning a medal.
Sunwoo Hwang earned the right to advance to the finals by placing third overall with a time of 47.93 seconds in the men's 100m freestyle semifinals at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships held at the Aspire Dome in Doha, Qatar, on the 15th (Korean time).
This is the first time that a Korean swimmer stands on the starting line for the men's 100m freestyle final at the World Championships. 메이저사이트
Hwang Sun-woo also reached the finals of the 100m freestyle at the World Championships after three attempts. He finished 11th in the semifinals at the 2022 Budapest competition, where he first participated, and unfortunately missed out on advancing to the finals by only 0.02 seconds at the 2023 Fukuoka competition.
Sunwoo Hwang, who passed the preliminaries in 6th place overall (48.15 seconds), ran an even better race in the semifinals. He recorded a time of 22.85 seconds for the first 50m, and also powerfully cut through the water in the last 50m, hitting the touchpad third fastest among the 16 athletes.
First place in the semifinals was taken by Fan Zhanle (China) with a time of 47.73 seconds. Van Zanle is considered a strong candidate to win this event because he set a new world record (46.80 seconds) in the men's 400m relay and 100m freestyle.
Alessandro Miresi (Italy), who raced with Hwang Sun-woo, passed the semifinals in second place (47.88 seconds).
The 100m freestyle finals, where the medal winner will be decided, will be held at 1:21 a.m. on the 16th.
Sunwoo Hwang, who won his first World Aquatics Championships gold medal in the main event, the 200m freestyle, on the 14th, is aiming for his second medal of the competition.
If Hwang Sun-woo ranks in the top three and stands on the podium, he will win a total of four World Championship medals, surpassing Park Tae-hwan and Kim Su-ji (three more) and become the Korean swimming world championship medalist with the most medals.
He will also attempt to break the Korean record in the 100m freestyle. Hwang Sun-woo set a Korean record of 47.56 seconds in the 100m freestyle semifinals at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in 2021, but has not been able to surpass it since.
Hwang Seon-woo said through his management company All That Sports, “I am proud to have made it to the final stage of the 100m freestyle, which was truly unseen,” and expressed his determination, “I will do my best in the finals and run a good race with a good record.” 토토사이트 순위