The national team, consisting of Hwang Seon-woo, Kim Woo-min (23, Gangwon Provincial Office), Lee Ho-jun (23, Daegu Metropolitan City Hall), Lee Yu-yeon (24, Goyang City Hall), and Yang Jae-hoon (26, Gangwon Provincial Office), will compete in the Doha World Championships to be held in February and the Doha World Championships to open in July. I boarded a plane to Australia on the 5th for overseas training ahead of the Paris Olympics. 카지노사이트랭크
They will be coached by coach Michael Pulferry at the swimming pool at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia, for four weeks. Coach Pulperi is a veteran leader who has produced several national management positions in Australia.
This is the third time that the Korea Aquatics Federation is sending the 800m relay team to Australia. In April 2022, they received intensive lessons from coach Ian Pope in Melbourne, and endured 'hell training' with coach Richard Scals in Brisbane in February last year. It is now the familiar ‘promised land’.
At a press conference held at Incheon International Airport on this day ahead of his departure, Hwang Sun-woo said, “The year 2023 has passed very quickly,” and “I want to run hard again this year with a new heart.” Kim Woo-min also said, “There are many big competitions in 2024. “I will go back with a fresh mind,” he said.
Sun-woo Hwang and Woo-min Kim experienced remarkable results last year in the individual and team 800m relay races.
Sunwoo Hwang won a bronze medal in the 200m freestyle at the Fukuoka World Championships in July last year, setting the previous Korean record (1 minute 44.42 seconds), making him the first Korean athlete to win a medal at two consecutive World Championships following the 2022 Budapest Games (silver medal). left behind And in September, he increased his speed even more and achieved a golden victory in the 200m freestyle final at the Hangzhou Asian Games, setting a new Korean record and a new competition record (1 minute 44.40 seconds).
Kim Woo-min ranked 5th (3 minutes 43.92 seconds) in the 400m freestyle, his main event, at the Fukuoka World Championships in July, and won three gold medals (800m relay, 400m, 800m freestyle) at the Hangzhou Asian Games.
In the 800m relay, a team event in which the final ranking is determined by adding up the time each team's four swimmers swam for 200m each in freestyle, at the finals of the Fukuoka World Championships in July, Hwang Seon-woo, Kim Woo-min, Yang Jae-hoon, and Lee Ho-jun placed 6th (7 minutes 04 seconds). 07), and in the finals of the Hangzhou Asian Games in September, where he changed the order of Yang Jae-hoon, Lee Ho-jun, Kim Woo-min, and Hwang Sun-woo, he set a new Asian record (7 minutes 01.73 seconds) and enjoyed the air of the summit. It was the first time in history that Korea won the gold medal in the swimming team event at the Asian Games.