2024-05-19 00:07:08
Males’s 800m relay confirmed throughout European coaching camp
Korean swimming star Hwang Seon-woo (Gangwon Provincial Workplace) will face rival David Popovic (Romania) for the primary time in a yr.
The Korea Swimming Federation introduced on the 18th, “The swimming crew, which is difficult its finest ever efficiency on the 2024 Paris Olympics, will conduct area coaching in Europe.”
Nationwide crew members who certified for particular person occasions on the Paris Olympics, together with Hwang Seon-woo, Kim Woo-min (Gangwon Provincial Workplace), Lee Joo-ho (Seogwipo Metropolis Corridor), and Kim Website positioning-young (Gyeongbuk Provincial Workplace), will go away for Europe on the twenty second. A complete of 12 athletes, together with these aiming to compete within the males’s 800m relay, are heading to Europe.
They’re tempered in Spain and Monaco.
After per week of coaching in Spain to regulate to jet lag, he’ll take part within the second competitors of the Mare Nostrum collection held in Barcelona on the twenty ninth and thirtieth. Afterwards, they may transfer to Monaco and take part within the third competitors on June 1-2.
Sunwoo Hwang will compete within the 100m and 200m freestyle within the 2nd and third Mare Nostrum competitions.
Rival Popovich can be anticipated to race in the identical occasion.
It has been a few yr because the Fukuoka World Aquatics Championships in July 2023 that Hwang Solar-woo and Popovich face off.
On the Paris Olympics, Hwang Solar-woo and Popovich are anticipated to compete within the 100m and 200m freestyle. The match towards rival Popovich is an efficient alternative for Hwang Solar-woo to verify his coaching outcomes up to now.
Kim Woo-min breaks the water in his major occasion, the lads’s 400m freestyle. Kim Website positioning-young will compete within the ladies’s 200m particular person medley, and Ji Yu-chan (Daegu Metropolitan Metropolis Corridor) will compete within the males’s 50m freestyle.
An official from the Korea Aquatics Federation mentioned, “After the Paris Olympics nationwide crew choice occasion in March, each the athletes who left for coaching in Australia and the athletes who sweated onerous in Jincheon continued to coach at excessive depth with out relaxation,” including, “An important stage is the Paris Olympics. “The objective is to verify race administration and sensible sense at this Mare Nostrum competitors,” he defined.
The swimming federation plans to finalize the lads’s 800m relay race on the Paris Olympics by this coaching camp.
Within the males’s 200m freestyle ultimate on the nationwide crew choice occasion final March, Hwang Solar-woo, Kim Woo-min, and Lee Ho-jun (Jeju Metropolis Corridor) ranked 1st to third. Hwang Seon-woo recorded 1 minute 44.90 seconds, Kim Woo-min recorded 1 minute 45.68 seconds, and Lee Ho-jun recorded 1 minute 46.43 seconds.
On the time, the federation had not confirmed the fourth English character. Because the objective is to win the primary crew medal in Olympic historical past within the 800m relay, it’s believed that no less than 4 athletes have to document a time of 1 minute and 46 seconds within the 200m freestyle. Aside from Hwang Solar-woo, Kim Woo-min, and Lee Ho-jun, no participant recorded a document of 1 minute and 46 seconds.
The swimming federation inspired competitors by permitting Kim Younger-hyun (Anyang Metropolis Corridor), Lee Yu-yeon (Goyang Metropolis Corridor), and Yang Jae-hoon (Gangwon Provincial Workplace), who have been ranked 4th to sixth on the time, to enter the Jincheon Athletes’ Village.
The swimming federation mentioned, “In accordance with the choice of the Efficiency Enchancment Committee, if Kim Younger-hyun, Lee Yu-yeon, and Yang Jae-hoon enter the 1 minute 45 second zone throughout this coaching interval, all three will probably be despatched to the Paris Olympics.” If there are a number of athletes with data underneath 46.50 minutes, solely the highest two will probably be despatched. “If all three are over 1 minute and 47 seconds, solely Kim Younger-hyun, who positioned fourth within the choice competitors, will take part within the Paris Olympics,” he defined.
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2024-05-19 00:07:08