Korea, ‘No Gold’ Just 12 Days After Opening

[Asian Games] Korea, ‘No Gold’ Just 12 Days After Opening… Silver medal in Handball and Archery

The Korean team's gold medal streak, which had continued every day since the opening of the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games, was broken after 12 days.

The Korean women's handball team, which attempted to win the championship for the third time in a row, lost 19-29 to Japan in the final held at the Zhejiang Bowers' University gymnasium in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China on the 5th.

Korean women's handball won seven times out of nine competitions from the 1990 Beijing Games, which became an official event at the Asian Games. 카지노사이트

To this tournament, but only missed out on the gold medal at the 2010 Guangzhou Games, where it was caught by Japan in the semifinals, and this tournament.

It was a shocking result for Korea's adult women's handball team to lose to Japan 13 years after the Guangzhou Games.

Korea, which fell behind by 6 goals in the first half alone, was unable to overturn its inferiority and fell behind by 10 points.

In this tournament, there was a group slump in ball sports, with men's basketball, women's basketball, and even women's handball being blocked by Japan.

Women's volleyball did not even get a chance to clash with Japan and fell to the 5th to 8th place match.

Unlike women's handball, baseball's match between Korea and Japan was met with a green light to advance to the finals.

The Korean baseball team defeated Japan 2-0 in the first game of the Super Round.

Starting pitcher Park Se-woong (Lotte Giants) pitched 6 scoreless innings, and relief pitcher Park Young-hyun (kt wiz) saved 2 innings to firmly lock Japan's back door.

Among the batters, No. 4 batter Noh Si-hwan (Hanwha Eagles) led the way to victory by scoring 2 RBIs with a sacrifice fly and a timely hit to left.

After the opening on the 23rd of last month, Korea held a gold medal parade from September 24th, when the medal race began in earnest, but was silent on this day.

The men's compound archery team won a silver medal in the team event.

The national team, consisting of Joo Jae-hoon (Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power), Yang Jae-won (executive director), and Kim Jong-ho (Hyundai Steel), lost 230-235 to India in the team finals.

Joo Jae-hoon, who is attracting attention as a 'national representative from a club', won his second silver medal following the mixed team event the day before.

Prior to this, in the third place match of the women's compound archery team event held, Korea, with a team of So Chae-won (Hyundai Mobis), Oh Yu-hyeon (Jeonbuk Provincial Office), and Jo Soo-ah (Hyundai Mobis), added a bronze medal by defeating Indonesia 232-229.

The women's basketball team won 93-63 and took the bronze medal in the North-South match held for the second time in this tournament.

Korean women's basketball won a silver medal at the 2010 Guangzhou Games, a gold medal at the 2014 Incheon Games, and won a silver medal as a unified team with North Korea at the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Games. They won four consecutive Asian Games, including as a unified team.

North Korea finished in fourth place after losing to South Korea by a large margin in the group stage (62-81) and in the bronze medal match.

Women's volleyball, which failed to advance to the semifinals and suffered the humiliation of no medals for the first time in 17 years, came from behind to win against North Korea with a set score of 3-1 in the quarterfinals, saving face in the first inter-Korean match in six years.

South Korea and North Korea will prepare to end the tournament with a higher ranking after going through the 5th to 8th place match.

Kim Min-seok (Suwon City Hall), the top men's heavyweight wrestler, defeated Naveen of India 5-1 in the Greco-Roman 130kg bronze medal match and won the bronze medal for the second time in a row.

Joo Seong-hyeon (Korea Jiu-Jitsu Association) in the men's 69kg jiu-jitsu class also stood on the podium after defeating Mongolia's Toubdentarva Choijamtz in the bronze medal match.

As of 7:30 p.m., Korea maintained third place with 33 gold medals, 47 silver medals, and 74 bronze medals.

The gap with second-place Japan, which reached 40 gold medals, widened further.