‘Taekwondo Poomsae’ Kang Wan-jin, First Gold Medal… Woongtae Jeon, Wins 2 Gold Medals in Modern Pentathlon
Kim Seon-woo, who has been 'medal hunting' since the first day in Korea, won silver in the women's modern pentathlon.
On the 24th, the second day of the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games, the Korean athletes began hunting for medals in earnest. 온라인카지노사이트
Kang Wan-jin and Cha Ye-eun maintained the pride of the country by winning gold medals each in Taekwondo Poomsae, and in modern pentathlon, 'signature' Jeon Woong-tae swept the individual and team gold medals, becoming the first Korean athlete to win two gold medals.
It was Taekwondo, the national sport, that broke through the ‘golden vein’ of this competition. Kang Wan-jin and Cha Ye-eun defeated Taiwan's Ma Yun-chung and Japan's Yuiko Niwa.
Respectively, in the men's and women's individual finals held at the Lin'an Sports and Culture Exhibition Center in Hangzhou, China on the 24th to become the top Asian champions.
Poomsae is a sport that is competed in a stadium measuring 12m in width and height, and the score is calculated based on the average score of 5 of the 7 judges, excluding the highest and lowest scores.
Kang Wan-jin is considered the ‘absolute leader’ in this sport.
He also took first place in the individual event at the Summer World University Games Poomsae held in Chengdu, China last July.
On this day, Kang Wan-jin received 8.000 points and 7.460 points, respectively, in the first and second games of the final held against Korea Poomsae, a recognized Poomsae team, in free poomsae of 1 minute and 40 seconds, defeating Ma Win-jung (7.880 points, 7.080 points).
It was even more meaningful because it was Korea's first gold medal in this competition.
In the women's final that followed, Cha Ye-eun scored 7.860 points and 7.220 points in the official Poomsae Koryo/Free Poomsae, comfortably beating Niwa (7.620 points, 6.700 points).
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 title in the competition.
He then teamed up with Lee Ji-hoon and Jeong Jin-hwa to win first place in the team event, earning the honor of winning two gold medals.
Modern pentathlon is an event in which one athlete competes in fencing, swimming, horseback riding, and laser running (track and field + shooting).
Jeon Woong-tae won with 1508 points, beating his national teammate Lee Ji-hoon (1492 points).
The Korean team's first overall medal came in the modern pentathlon women's individual event.
Kim Seon-woo won a total of 1,386 points, ranked second after Zhang Ming-yu (China, 1,406 points), and won a silver 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, Kim Se-hee, and Seong Seung-min combined 3,574 points to win the bronze medal, following China and Japan.
As a result, Kim Seon-woo became a medalist at the Asian Games for the third time in a row, following the team event at the 2014 Incheon Games (gold medal) and the 2018 Jakarta/Palembang Games (bronze medal).
Lee Ha-rim, in the men's 66kg judo class, lost half to his 'natural enemy' Yang Yong-wei (Taiwan) in the finals held at Hangzhou Xiaoshan Linfu Gymnasium and won a silver medal.