Judo An Baul challenges for 3rd consecutive Olympic medal
Smiling Archery Team
The ‘world’s best’ Korean women’s archery team is challenging the feat of winning the Olympic team event for the 10th consecutive time.
The Korean women’s archery team, consisting of Im Si-hyeon (Korea National Sport University), Nam Su-hyeon (Suncheon City Hall), and Jeon Hun-young (Incheon City Hall), will compete in the 2024 Paris Olympic team event at the special event venue, Les Invalides, a historic landmark in Paris, France, on the 28th.
Even before the competition opened, on the 25th, in the women’s archery ranking round, Korea took first place with Im Si-hyeon (694 points), Nam Su-hyeon (688 points), and Jeon Hun-yeong (664 points) recording a combined score of 2,046 points, breaking the Olympic record (2,032 points) set by Korea at the Tokyo Olympics three years ago.
Lim Si-hyeon set a new world record, surpassing Kang Chae-young (Hyundai Mobis)’s score of 692 points by two points in the 2019 World Championships preliminary round held in the Netherlands.
The Korean women’s team, which comfortably secured the number 1 seed in the ranking round, will skip the first round and compete starting from the second round, the quarterfinals.
The quarterfinal opponent, scheduled for 9:38 p.m. Korean time, is the winner of the Taiwan-USA match. If they win here, they will face one of the following teams in the semifinals: France, the Netherlands, or India.
The final opponent is likely to be China or Mexico.
China, which won the women’s team event in the first and second of the three World Cups held this year, is a tough opponent, but the Korean women’s archery team has always defeated challengers on the Olympic stage and come out on top.
From the 1988 Seoul Games, when the team archery event was first adopted as an official event, to the Tokyo Games three years ago, the Korean women’s archery team achieved nine consecutive victories without missing a single gold medal.
If he stands on top of the podium this time, he will build a golden tower of ’10 consecutive wins’.
Judo men’s 66kg class star An Baul (Namyangju City Hall) is aiming to win a medal for the third consecutive Olympics.
An Baul won a silver medal at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games and a bronze medal at the 2020 Tokyo Games in 2021.
An Baul has been an ace player in the men’s 66kg class since the Rio Olympics, and has achieved notable results in every international competition he has participated in.
At the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games held last year, he showed his potential by overcoming his worst condition and winning a bronze medal.
‘My Info’, the official information site of the Paris Olympic Organizing Committee, selected An Baul as the opponent to keep in check the ‘championship candidate’ Hifumi Abe (Japan).
‘Korean swimming ace’ Hwang Seon-woo (Gangwon Provincial Office) will begin his journey toward an Olympic medal by competing in the men’s 200m freestyle preliminaries at 6:10 PM on the 28th.
Hwang Sun-woo was grouped with strong players such as David Popovic (Romania), Luke Hobson (USA), and Pan Zhanle (China) in Group 4 of the preliminary round.
For Hwang Seon-woo, who is a ‘championship candidate’, passing the preliminary round is not a difficult task, but tension is high as he will be competing against Popovich from the preliminary round.
The men’s 200m freestyle semifinals will be held at 3:46 AM on the 29th, and the finals will be held at 3:40 AM on the 30th.
Badminton women’s singles world No. 1 An Se-young (Samsung Life Insurance) will also play her first preliminary match against 76th-ranked Kalojana Nalvantova (Bulgaria) on the 28th. 토토사이트