Korean Swimming's 'Golden Generation' Hwang Sun-woo and Kim Woo-min Llead the Way to Challenge for the Best Results
Aiming for 'multiple medals' in men's 400m and 200m freestyle, men's 800m relay, Korea secures 4 team events, 20 individual events, and 24 total entry spots
The sport with the most gold medals at the 2024 Paris Olympics is swimming.
Korean swimming, which has enjoyed a renaissance thanks to the emergence of a golden generation, is expected to achieve its best Olympic performance ever in Paris this summer.
At the Paris Olympics, 49 gold medals will be awarded in swimming, including 35 swimming, 8 diving, and 2 each in artistic swimming, water polo, and open water swimming.
Korean swimming has secured a total of 4 team events and 20 individual events in swimming, diving, and artistic swimming, excluding water polo and open water swimming, out of the five sub-events.
In swimming, 15 swimmers, including the 'relay swimmer', 6 divers, and 2 artistic swimmers, a total of 23 will head to Paris.
This achievement was achieved solely by Park Tae-hwan.
Park Tae-hwan won a gold medal in the men's 400m freestyle and a silver medal in the 200m freestyle at the 2008 Beijing Games, and a silver medal in the 400m and 200m freestyle at the 2012 London Games.
Korean swimming is confident that a ‘new Korean Olympic medalist’ will emerge in Paris.
We also hope that for the first time, Korean swimming will emerge with multiple Olympic medalists in a single competition.
Although many world-class stars did not participate, Korean swimming won two gold medals, one silver medal, and two bronze medals at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships held in Doha, Qatar in February this year.
Management Kim Woo-min (Gangwon Provincial Office) won gold in the men's 400m freestyle, and Hwang Sun-woo (Gangwon Provincial Office) won gold in the 200m freestyle, and Lee Ho-jun (Jeju City Hall) and Yang Jae-hoon (Gangwon Provincial Office) won silver in the men's 800m relay.
In diving, Kim Su-ji (Ulsan Metropolitan City Hall) came in third in the women's 3m springboard individual event, and also took third place in the mixed synchronized 3m springboard with Lee Jae-kyung (Incheon Metropolitan City Hall).
Korean swimming is aiming for 'multiple medals' at the Paris Olympics.
Good news can be heard starting on the 27th (local time), the day after the opening ceremony.
Kim Woo-min will compete in the 400m freestyle preliminaries on the morning of the 27th, and will compete in the finals that afternoon.
Kim Woo-min, who set a personal best of 3 minutes 42.42 seconds at the 3rd Mare Nostrum Series competition on June 2, is ranked 4th in the 2024 men's 400m freestyle record rankings, following Lucas Martens (3 minutes 40.33 seconds, Germany), Elijah Winington (3 minutes 41.41 seconds), and Samuel Short (3 minutes 41.64 seconds, all from Australia). Foreign
media outlets are also reporting that the 400m freestyle medal competition at the Paris Olympics is a 'four-way battle'.
If Kim Woo-min stands on the podium, he will be recorded as the first Korean swimmer to win an Olympic medal since 'idol' Park Tae-hwan in 12 years.
Korean swimming ace' Hwang Sun-woo will compete in the preliminaries and semifinals of the 200m freestyle on the 28th, and in the reverse swim for the medal color on the 29th.
If Kim Woo-min and Hwang Sun-woo win medals in their individual events, they can comfortably challenge for the first medal in a Korean swimming team event in the men's 800m relay on the 30th.
Lee Joo-ho (Seogwipo City Hall), who placed 5th in the men's 200m backstroke at the Doha World Championships, is also a 'surprise medal candidate' that Korean swimming is picking. https://start.me/w/52p5rz There are also 'medal candidates' in diving.
Woo Ha-ram (Korea Sports Promotion Foundation) will challenge for a medal in the men's 3m springboard, where he placed 4th at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics held in 2021, and Kim Su-ji will challenge for a medal in the women's 3m springboard, where she won a bronze medal at the Doha World Championships.
You can see Woo Ha-ram's splendid performance on August 8th and Kim Su-ji's on the 9th.
Lee Ri-young (Busan Swimming Federation) and Heo Yun-seo (Sungkyunkwan University), who gave Korea's artistic swimming an Olympic ticket for the first time in 12 years since the London Games, will perform a duet technical on August 9th and a free on the 10th, aiming to enter the top 10 for the first time in Korea.
The pride battle between the US, Australia, and China in the swimming events is a key point to watch at the Paris Olympics.
The US has the 'legend' Katie Ledecky in good health, and veterans such as Caleb Dressel and Simone Manuel who have recovered from injuries have won many tickets to Paris.
Australia has 'medal candidates' in various events such as Ariane Titmus, Molly O'Callaghan, and Kaylee Macquart in the women's event, and Kyle Chalmers, Winnington, and the short in the men's event.
China, led by men's breaststroke powerhouse Qin Haiyang, 100m freestyle world record holder Pan Jianle, and women's butterfly swimmer Zhang Yufei, has acquired enough power to threaten the US and Australia. The
narrative of the 'Three Kingdoms of Management' has become richer as the US and Australian media raised 'doping suspicions' about Chinese swimming at the Tokyo Olympics, and athletes from both countries also looked askance at Chinese swimming.