Yong-seon, Who Formed a Single Team 5 Years Ago

[Asian Games] Yong-seon, Who Formed a Single Team 5 Years Ago… Silver Beats North Korea in Women's 1,000m

The Korean dragon boat women's team won a bronze medal, beating North Korea in the 1,000m at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games.

The Yongsun women's team, led by coach Ha Jae-heung, recorded a time of 4 minutes 55.668 seconds in the finals of the competition held at the Wenzhou Dragon Boat Center in Zhejiang Province, China on the 6th, taking third place and winning a bronze medal.

This is the first and last medal won by Korea in the dragon boat event at this competition. 토토사이트

The national team includes Hyun-joo Lee, Tae-hee Cha (Korea National Sport University), Hyun-hee Kim (Daejeon Metropolitan Sports Council), Ji-won Jeong (Suseong High School), Su-bin Jo (Andong Girls' High School), Woo Joo-woo (Guri Girls' High School), Hee Joo (Sokcho City Hall), Seong-hwa Lim, and Su-jin Tak (Jeonnam)

(Provincial Office), Ye-bom Yoon, Eun-jeong Byun (Guri City Hall), Yeo-jin Kim, Da-bin Kim, and Sol-hee Han (Ogjin County Office) participated.

The national team, which ranked third overall (4 minutes 59.972 seconds) in the preliminaries, crossed the finish line for the third time in the finals, behind China (4 minutes 51.448 seconds) and Indonesia (4 minutes 55.385 seconds).

North Korea, which ranked 4th in the preliminaries (5:00.915), also placed 4th in the final with a time of 4:56.501.

North Korea, which maintained third place until the 750m mark, failed to reap a medal by allowing South Korea to come back in the final 250m.

Dragon boating is a sport in which 12 players, including 10 paddlers, a coxswain, and a drummer, compete as a team.

It is a sport said to have originated in the Pearl River Delta area of ​​Guangdong Province, China, and teams from Greater China and Southeast Asia are strong.

It was adopted as an official event at the Asian Games at the 2010 Guangzhou Games, and at the 2018 Games, a unified team from North and South Korea was formed and won gold in the women's 500m and bronze medals in the women's 200m and men's 1,000m.

The Korean national team met North Korean players, who were teammates five years ago, as competitors this time.

North Korea's women's team's Heo Soo-jung and Jeong Ye-sung, who teamed up to win the gold medal five years ago, competed against South Korea's Byun Eun-jung and Kim Hyun-hee.

The men's team, which competed in the same 1,000m event, finished in 5th place with a time of 4 minutes 33.679 seconds.

The gold medal went to Indonesia (4 minutes 31.135 seconds).

North Korea ranked 4th (4 minutes 33.325 seconds), one step higher than us.