Will Wrestling Regain Its Status as a Prolific Sport

[Asian Games] Will Wrestling Regain Its Status as a Prolific Sport? Gold Medal Hunt From the 4th

Veterans Kim Hyun-woo and Ryu Han-soo, last challenge before retirement... Jeong Han-jae and Cheon Mi-ran are dark horses.

Korean wrestling, which has lost the title of 'the best sport' and has performed poorly in recent international competitions, is aiming to regain its pride through the so-called 'all-in' strategy. 바카라사이트

Starting on the 4th, the wrestling team will hunt for a gold medal at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games at the Lin'an Sports and Culture Exhibition Center in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China.

On the 4th, the men's Greco-Roman 60kg class will feature Jeong Han-jae (Suwon City Hall), 67kg class Ryu Han-su, 77kg class Kim Hyeon-woo (hereinafter Samsung Life Insurance), and 87kg class Shin Byeong-cheol (Jeonbuk Provincial Office).

Jeong Han-jae, Ryu Han-soo, and Kim Hyun-woo are medal candidates.

On the 5th, there will be medal winners in five weight classes, including the men's Greco-Roman 130kg class and the women's freestyle 50kg class, featuring 'dark horses' Kim Min-seok (Suwon City Hall) and Cheon Mi-ran (Samsung Life).

On the 6th and 7th, men's and women's freestyle competitions will be held.

Korean wrestling put a lot at stake in this tournament.

As Korea was focusing on the Asian Games, it also sent second-level players to the World Championships held last month.

This is to distribute the physical strength of the first-line players.

At the World Championships, there were five tickets for each weight class to participate in the 2024 Paris Olympics, but Korea virtually gave up on them to focus on the Asian Games.

Korea failed to obtain a single Olympic ticket as all of its athletes at the World Championships failed to advance to the semifinals.

On the other hand, the Korea Wrestling Association offered a generous ‘carrot’ to the Asian Games.

A reward of 30 million won for the gold medalist and 10 million won for the bronze medalist is being offered to encourage good performance.

The Korean wrestling team is aiming for about two gold medals in this tournament.

It is at a similar level to the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games (2 gold medals, 6 bronze medals), which had poor results.

Veterans Ryu Han-soo and Kim Hyun-woo stand at the forefront.

The two players, who were born in 1988 and are the same age, are determined to win the gold medal as they have focused on training and used this competition as a retirement stage.

The two athletes initially set a wedding date for the end of last year, saying they would hand over their final Asian Games gold medal to their prospective wives.

The two will participate in this competition as married men as the competition was postponed for a year due to the spread of the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19).

Kim Hyun-woo, a gold medalist at the 2012 London Olympics, injured his rib membrane during the final match of the national team selection event in May and was unable to focus on training for a while, but has now recovered his physical condition to some extent.

However, in order for Kim Hyun-woo to win the gold medal, he must overcome a high wall.

In the men's Greco-Roman 67kg class in which he will compete, world number one Akrol Mahmudov (Kyrgyzstan), who won a silver medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and won the world championship this year, will participate.

Ryu Han-soo has a relatively greater chance of winning than Kim Hyun-woo.

There are no world-class athletes in the Greco-Roman 67kg class in which Ryu Han-soo competes.

Jeong Han-jae, who won a bronze medal at the Asian Championships last April, is also a medal candidate in the men's Greco-Roman 60kg class.

However, in this weight class, both Zoraman Sassenbekov (Kyrgyzstan, world No. 1), who won the gold medal at the recent World Championships, and World Championship bronze medalist Li Guoqiao (China, world No. 2) will participate.

Expectations are also high on Kim Min-seok in the Greco-Roman 130kg class and Cheon Mi-ran in the women's freestyle 50kg class.

Mi-ran Chun was the only Korean female athlete to win a bronze medal at the Asian Championships, and Min-seok Kim is the top heavyweight who won a bronze medal at the 2018 World Championships.