Kim Woo-min, 1st Place in 400m Preliminary Round

[Asian Games] Kim Woo-min, 1st Place in 400m Preliminary Round... “With the Thought that there will be Someone in Front of me in the Finals”

If you win the 400m freestyle event held on the afternoon of the 29th, you will achieve your third Asian Games gold medal.

Kim Woo-min (22, Gangwon Provincial Office), ‘Asia’s freestyle middle and long distance champion’, has safely entered the path to three Asian Games wins.

As the game continues, traces of cupping treatment increase on Kim Woo-min's body, but he is enduring all the pain with his will to win the triple crown. 온라인카지노사이트

Kim Woo-min ranked first overall with a time of 3 minutes and 49.03 seconds in the men's 400m freestyle preliminaries at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games Swimming Management held at the Hangzhou Olympic Sports Center in Zhejiang, China, on the 29th.

Other than Kim Woo-min, no athlete finished the race within 3 minutes and 50 seconds in the preliminaries.

The record of Kiyu Ho Yan (Malaysia), who placed second overall, was 3 minutes 51.31 seconds.

Fan Zhanle (China) finished the preliminaries in 6th place with a time of 3 minutes 53.38 seconds.

In the finals, which will be held at 9:21 pm Korean time, Kim Woo-min will challenge for his third gold medal of the competition.

On the 25th, Kim Woo-min shared the gold medal with Hwang Sun-woo, Yang Jae-hoon (Gangwon Provincial Office), and Lee Ho-jun (Daegu Metropolitan City Hall) in the men's 800m relay, and on the 28th, he won two gold medals in the 800m freestyle, setting a new competition record of 7 minutes 46.03 seconds.

Kim Woo-min, who took second place in the 1,500m freestyle, will receive his fourth medal and third gold medal of this competition if he wins the main event, the 400m freestyle.

In the history of Asian Games swimming, there are only two Korean athletes who have won three gold medals in a single event.

Former Vice Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Choi Yun-hee won the first triple gold medal in Korean swimming history at the 1982 New Delhi Games, and Park Tae-hwan won the triple gold twice in Doha in 2006 and Guangzhou in 2010.

The men's 400m freestyle is Kim Woo-min's main event.

Kim Woo-min broke his personal record in the preliminaries (3 minutes 44.50 seconds) and finals (3 minutes 43.92 seconds) in the men's 400m freestyle at the 2023 Fukuoka World Championships held in July this year and settled in the world's top five.

Kim Woo-min, who took 6th place at last year's Budapest competition with a time of 3 minutes 45.64 seconds, shortened his record by 1 second 72 seconds in one year and also raised his personal best ranking at the World Championships to 5th place.

There is only one Asian athlete, Kim Woo-min, who reached the finals of the men's 400m freestyle at the World Championships last year and this year.

If Kim Woo-min becomes the 400m freestyle Asian champion as expected, Korean swimming will become the first Korean swimmer to win three Asian Games gold medals in 13 years since Park Tae-hwan in 2010.

Kim Woo-min, whom we met after the game, said, “I don’t really care about being evaluated as a candidate for the championship,” and added, “I will play the final with a challenging spirit, thinking that there is someone ahead of me.”

Kim Woo-min received many messages of support during the Asian Games.

He said, "I was so moved that I thought, 'Is it really possible to receive this much support?'" and added, "Now that I have received this much support, I will work harder.

I will return after a good rest and repay you with a good game in the afternoon."

In the past, there were three Korean athletes who won the men's 400m freestyle at the Asian Games, from the late Cho Oh-ryun to Baek Seung-hoon and Park Tae-hwan.

There is a high possibility that the fourth Korean player will be Kim Woo-min.