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Taekwondo Poomsae Kang Wan-jin, Korea’s First Gold Medal
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[Asian Games] Taekwondo Poomsae Kang Wan-jin, Korea’s First Gold Medal… Jeon Woong-tae Wins First Two Gold Medals in Modern Pentathlon
Cha Ye-eun also won and swept the Korean Poomsae... Modern pentathlon Lee Ji-hoon and Kim Sun-woo, judo Lee Ha-rim won silver medals
On the first day of the medal race for the Summer Asian Games held for the first time in five years, the Korean team started the competition fresh by winning three gold medals in succession in 15 minutes. 바카라사이트
Kang Wan-jin (Hongcheon County Office) and Cha Ye-eun (Kyung Hee University), who participated in the Taekwondo Poomsae event, swept the men's and women's individual Taekwondo Poomsae competitions at the 19th Hangzhou Asian Games held at the Lin'an Sports and Culture Exhibition Center in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China on the 24th.
Jeon Woong-tae (Gwangju Metropolitan City Hall), a bronze medalist at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics and Korea's first Olympic medalist in modern pentathlon, swept the individual and team events to become the first Korean athlete to win two gold medals at this event.
Taekwondo, Korea's national sport, made a breakthrough by winning a relay gold medal.
Kang Wan-jin received 8.000 and 7.460 points in the first and second matches of the finals held in Korea and free Poomsae, respectively, defeating Taiwan's Ma Yun-jung (7.880 and 7.080 points).
Poomsae also presented the Korean team with its first gold medal at the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Games, which became an official event of the Asian Games.
Following the men's team event at the competition five years ago, Kang Wan-jin stood at the top of the individual event this time and enjoyed the joy of winning gold for the second time in a row.
Poomsae, which is competed in a stadium measuring 12 meters in width and height, is graded based on the average scores of 5 of the 7 judges, excluding the highest and lowest scores.
Kang Wan-jin is a strong player in this sport, taking first place in the individual event at the Summer World University Games Poomsae held in Chengdu, China last July.
13 minutes after Kang Wan-jin's good news, news of two gold medals came from the modern pentathlon stadium.
Jeon Woong-tae won the gold medal in the modern pentathlon men's individual event held at the Hangzhou Fuyang Inhu Sports Center, achieving his second consecutive victory in the competition, and also won first place in the team event with Lee Ji-hoon and Jeong Jin-hwa (hereinafter LH), earning the honor of winning two gold medals.
As of 6 p.m., the two Chinese athletes who have won two gold medals in this competition, Huang Yu-ting (shooting) and Zhang Ming-yu (modern pentathlon), and Jeon Woong-tae are three.
Modern pentathlon is an event in which one athlete competes in all of fencing, swimming, horseback riding, and laser running (track and field + shooting). Jeon Woong-tae earned 1,508 points, beating national teammate Lee Ji-hoon (LH, 1,492 points) to win the title. did.
Jeon Woong-tae also recorded 4,477 points in the team event, which combined the scores of Ji-hoon Lee and Jin-hwa Jeong (LH), beating China (4,397 points) and taking the top spot.
Two minutes after the news of Jeon Woong-tae's double gold medal win, news of Cha Ye-eun's gold medal came again from the Taekwondo Poomsae Stadium.
Cha Ye-eun scored 7.860·7.220 points in the official Poomsae Koryo/Free Poomsae, comfortably beating Japan's Yuiko Niwa (7.620·6.700 points) and becoming the main character on the podium.
Cha Ye-eun, a former member of the Taekwondo demonstration team, recently switched to Poomsae and established herself as a free Poomsae powerhouse.
The Korean team's first overall medal came in the modern pentathlon.
Kim Seon-woo (Gyeonggi Provincial Office) won a total of 1,386 points in the women's individual event in fencing, swimming, horseback riding, and laser running (track and field + shooting), ranking second after Zhang Ming-yu (China, 1,406 points), and winning the team event gold medal at the 2014 Incheon Games. ), won three consecutive Asian Games medals following the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Games (bronze medal).
In the team event, where the ranking is determined by the sum of the scores of the top three individual players in each country, Kim Seon-woo shared 3,574 points with Kim Se-hee (1,100 points) and Seong Seung-min (1,088 points), followed by China (4,094 points) and Japan (4,094 points).
After scoring 3,705 points, he also took the bronze medal.
Judo men's 66kg class Lee Ha-rim (Korea Racing Association) won a silver medal after losing half to his 'natural enemy' Yang Yong-wei (Taiwan) in the finals of the Hangzhou Asian Games held at Hangzhou Xiaoshan Linfu Gymnasium.
While China, the 'dinosaur', took the lead early on by winning 12 gold medals, Korea is ranked 2nd in overall medal rankings with 4 gold medals, 3 silver medals, and 1 bronze medal.
