North Korea's Ahn Chang-ok Wins Two Awards

[Asian Games] Gold Flowing from Gymnastics, Fencing, Swimming, and Games... North Korea's Ahn Chang-ok Wins Two Awards

Korea cruises to second place in medal rankings... North Korea ‘jumped’ from 19th to 10th.

Korea continued its gold medal march at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games even on the first day of the Chuseok holiday.

Kim Han-sol (Seoul City Hall), a veteran of men's gymnastics, won the artistic gymnastics men's floor exercise finals held at the Huanglong Sports Center Gymnasium in Hangzhou, China on the 28th with a score of 14.900.

Kim Han-sol, who beat Jang Bo-heng (China) with 14.333 points, achieved his second consecutive victory in the competition following the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang. 카지노사이트

Kim Han-sol is the third person in Korean gymnastics history to win two Asian Games in a row, following Yeo Hong-cheol at the 1998 Bangkok Games and Kim Su-myeon at the 2010 Guangzhou Games.

Kim Han-sol, who won the first gold medal for the Korean team in gymnastics at this competition, was happy, saying, "Director Kim Dae-eun and I had a good strategy of suppressing his competitors from his first performance."

In fencing, the world's strongest men's saber team achieved its third consecutive victory in the Asian Games.

The men's saber team, consisting of Oh Sang-wook (Daejeon City Hall), Koo Bon-gil, Kim Jeong-hwan (Korea Sports Promotion Foundation), and Kim Jun-ho (Hwaseong City Hall), defeated China 45-33 in the team finals held at the Hangzhou University of Electronics gymnasium.

This is Korea's third consecutive gold medal win in the men's saber team fencing event at the Asian Games, following Incheon in 2014 and Jakarta and Palembang in 2018.

This member also teamed up to win the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.

Koo Bon-gil won his 6th gold medal at the Asian Games, tying the record with Park Tae-hwan (swimming), Nam Hyun-hee (fencing), Seo Jeong-gyun (horseback riding), Yang Chang-hoon (archery), and Ryu Seo-yeon (bowling) for the most gold medals won by a Korean player at the Summer Asian Games.

Also, Oh Sang-wook, who won the individual event, won two gold medals in the competition.

Korea won its 6th gold medal in fencing, of which 12 gold medals were awarded at this event, and achieved the overall championship in this event for the 4th time in a row since the 2010 Guangzhou Games.

However, in the women's foil team finals, Korea lost to China 31-34 and finished as runners-up.

In the men's 50m butterfly, Baek In-cheol (Busan Jung-gu Office) became the first Korean athlete to win the Asian Games title in this category.

Baek In-cheol won the men's 50m butterfly final held at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center with a new Korean record of 23.29 seconds.

The men's 50m butterfly has been an official event at the Asian Games since the 2006 Doha Games, and the previous best record by a Korean athlete was Yang Jeong-du's bronze medal in Incheon in 2014.

In the men's 800m freestyle, Kim Woo-min (Gangwon Provincial Office) won the gold medal with a new competition record of 7 minutes 46.03 seconds.

Kim Woo-min won two gold medals in this competition, including the 800m relay.

In addition, with the wins of Baek In-cheol and Kim Woo-min, Korean swimming management achieved five gold medals, the most in a single event at the Asian Games.

There were mixed emotions in e-sports and baduk.

In the semifinals of eSports League of Legends (LoL), Korea defeated China 2-0 and advanced to the finals.

Korea will play the final against Chinese Taipei on the 29th, and the possibility of winning the gold medal is high as the match against China was expected to be the biggest hurdle in winning the gold medal.

In e-sports, the first gold medal in Asian Games history was also achieved.

44-year-old veteran Kim Kwan-woo won the gold medal by defeating Xiang Yu-lin (Taiwan) 4-3 in the Street Fighter V finals.

With e-sports becoming an official event in the Asian Games starting this year, it is also the first gold medal in history for the Korean national team in that event.

On the other hand, 9-dan Shin Shin-seo, who was considered a gold medal candidate in Baduk, was eliminated in the semifinals after losing to 9-dan Xu Hao-hong (Taiwan) in 278 moves.

The result was so unexpected that it was the first time that Shin Jin-seo lost to a foreign professional player who was not of Chinese nationality.

In the 3rd and 4th place match, Shin Jin-seo defeated Ryo Ichikiri (Japan) 9th dan in 135 moves and won the bronze medal.

Xu Haohong, who defeated Shin Jin-seo, also defeated Ke Jie (China) in the finals and became the protagonist of the 'surprise gold medal'.

Meanwhile, North Korea's Ahn Chang-ok, who swept the artistic gymnastics vault and uneven bars event, won two gold medals alone, winning two gold medals in the competition.

In addition, North Korea won three gold medals in one day, including winning the first gold medal of this competition in the women's 10m running target team shooting event.

As of the 28th, Korea is in second place in the medal rankings with 24 gold medals, 23 silver medals, and 39 bronze medals.

China, with 90 gold medals, is the sole leader, while third-place Japan took home 18 gold medals, 30 silver medals, and 30 bronze medals each.

North Korea rose from 19th place the previous day to 10th place with 3 gold medals, 5 silver medals, and 4 bronze medals.