[Asian Games] Modern Pentathlon Jeon Woong-tae Wins the First Two Gold Medals in Korean Competition... Individual/Group Victory
Jeon Woong-tae, wins 2nd consecutive individual match with great performance... Men's team event wins gold for first time in 13 years
Jeon Woong-tae (Gwangju Metropolitan City Hall), the star of men's modern pentathlon, swept the individual and team events at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games, becoming the first Korean athlete to win two gold medals.
Jeon Woong-tae earned a total of 1,508 points in fencing, swimming, horseback riding, and laser run (track and field + shooting) in the men's modern pentathlon individual event at the Hangzhou Asian Games held at the Fuyang Inhu Sports Center in Hangzhou, China on the 24th, and teammate Lee Ji-hoon (LH, He won the championship by beating 1,492 points. 카지노사이트탑
With this, Jeon Woong-tae succeeded in winning his second consecutive individual event at the Asian Games following the 2018 Jakarta and Palembang competitions.
Jeon Woong-tae also shared first place in the team event with Lee Ji-hoon and Jeong Jin-hwa (LH, 1,477 points) and enjoyed the honor of becoming the first Korean team to win two gold medals at this tournament.
In the team event, where the ranking is determined by the sum of the scores of the top three individual players from each country, Korea scored 4,477 points, including the scores of 1st place Jeon Woong-tae, 2nd place Lee Ji-hoon, and 4th place Jeong Jin-hwa, beating China (4,397 points).
Korea took the top spot in the men's modern pentathlon team event at the Asian Games for the first time in 13 years since the 2010 Guangzhou Games.
China won the 2014 Incheon Games, and no team competition was held at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang.
In the fencing ranking round on the 20th, where all participating players face each other once, Lee Ji-hoon took the lead with 264 points by recording 22 wins and 6 losses, and succeeded in completing the first match of the day, horseback riding, without any deductions, adding 300 points to 564 points. In the beginning, we took the lead.
At this time, the gap between Lee Ji-hoon and 2nd place Li Su-hwan (China) was close to 30 points, so it seemed like they were close to winning.
Lee Ji-hoon took the lead with 568 points, adding 4 points in the bonus round where 1 point is awarded for each win, starting from the match between the bottom two players in the fencing ranking round.
However, from the next swim, defending champion Jeon Woong-tae's stormy run began.
Jeon Woong-tae, who was in 5th place until he finished fencing, added 312 swimming points with a time of 1 minute 59.28 seconds, which was the first place among all participating athletes, and quickly rose to second place in the intermediate score after Lee Ji-hoon.
In the laser run, where the starting time varies depending on the combined performance of the previous three events, Lee Ji-hoon was the first to start, and Jeon Woong-tae started 32 seconds later, and Lee Ji-hoon maintained the advantage until the middle of the race.
However, toward the end, Jeon Woong-tae succeeded in getting ahead, and was the first to cross the finish line, confirming his second consecutive victory.
Lee Ji-hoon, Ri Su-hwan (bronze medal with 1,484 points), and Jeong Jin-hwa came next, and Korea was also determined to win the team event.
Lee Ji-hoon showed signs of concussion after falling from a horse in the practice arena that day, but with his fighting spirit he played the entire game and took home a valuable gold medal and a silver medal.
Seo Chang-wan (Jeonnam Provincial Office), who also participated, ranked 8th in the individual competition (1,424 points).
Korea achieved the best performance among the participating countries with two gold medals, two silver medals, and one bronze medal in the modern pentathlon event, including a silver medal for Kim Seon-woo (Gyeonggi Provincial Office) in the women's individual event held earlier that day and a bronze medal in the team event.