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Wed, May 31, 2023 | 09:20
S. Korea finishes 6th in men's relay at swimming worlds in new nat'l record
Posted : 2022-06-24 09:25
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Members of the South Korean men's 4x200m freestyle relay team pose for a group photo after qualifying for the final at the FINA World Championships at the Duna Arena in Budapest, June 23, in this photo provided by All That Sports. From left are Kim Woo-min, Hwang Sun-woo, Lee Ho-joon and Lee Yoo-yeon. Yonhap
Members of the South Korean men's 4x200m freestyle relay team pose for a group photo after qualifying for the final at the FINA World Championships at the Duna Arena in Budapest, June 23, in this photo provided by All That Sports. From left are Kim Woo-min, Hwang Sun-woo, Lee Ho-joon and Lee Yoo-yeon. Yonhap

Led by teen swimming star Hwang Sun-woo, South Korea achieved its best-ever relay performance at a swimming world championships.

Hwang, the 200m freestyle silver medalist, joined Kim Woo-min, Lee Yoo-yeon and Lee Ho-joon for the sixth-place finish in the men's 4x200m freestyle relay at the FINA World Championships at the Duna Arena in Budapest, Thursday (local time). They set a new national record with a time of 7:06.93, breaking their own mark set merely hours earlier.

This was South Korea's first appearance in any relay final at the biennial world championships.

In the heats held earlier, the South Korean foursome finished fourth with 7:08.49, shattering their own, 13-month-old record by 2.96 seconds.

Then in the final, the quartet shaved 1.56 seconds from that mark.

The United States won gold in 7:00.24, followed by Australia in 7:03.50 and Britain in 7:04.00.

By winning his 200m freestyle silver medal Monday, Hwang, 19, joined Park Tae-hwan as the only South Korean swimmer to grab a medal at a world championships.

In the relay final, Hwang gave South Korea an early lead by covering the opening leg in 1:45.30.

Kim Woo-min, the next swimmer for South Korea, had the fifth-fastest time in the second leg with 1:46.57, but South Korea stayed in third place at the halfway mark.

South Korea slipped to fourth after Lee Yoo-yeon's 1:48.28 in the third leg. Lee Ho-joon took care of the home stretch in 1:46.78 as the four set a national record for the second time in one day.

The South Korean quartet trained for six weeks in Australia from late April to early June, under the tutelage of Ian Pope, who has produced Olympic gold medalists and world champions such as Grant Hackett and Michael Klim

The special training camp was set up to help prep the relay team not just for the worlds, but for the Asian Games scheduled for September in Hangzhou, China. However, on May 6, the Asian Games were postponed indefinitely due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The team kept its focus solely on the world championships, and the camp paid major dividends. In addition to setting two national records, Hwang and Co. beat China, the only other Asian team in the final, by a full four seconds.

This brightens South Korea's hopes for its first swimming relay gold medal at the Asian Games.

Hwang said afterward that the event had been "a really meaningful competition" for himself and his teammates.

"I was pretty happy with the record in the heats, and to improve on that time in the final was quite gratifying," Hwang said, in a statement released by the Korea Swimming Federation. "I'd love to keep breaking records with these members. Hopefully, we'll be able to build on our experience here and do well at the Asian Games and the Paris Olympics (in 2024)."

Other members of the team expressed a similar sentiment. Lee Yoo-yeon and Kim Woo-min both said it had been "an honor" to have trained and competed with the team and said their goal was to set a new national record at the Asian Games.

Lee Ho-joon talked about how the team chemistry played an important role.

"We're all around the same age, and we've been doing this together for almost three years now. So we know each other really well," the 21-year-old said. "We always push each other and complement each other at the same time. We have fun doing it."

In the 100m freestyle Tuesday, Hwang initially missed out on the semifinals after finishing tied for 17th in the heats, with only the top 16 advancing. A spot opened up for Hwang in the semifinals when Caeleb Dressel of the United States withdrew for unspecified medical reasons. But Hwang, the first alternate, finished 11th, as the top seven moved on to the final.

In the 4x100m freestyle relay heats Saturday, Hwang teamed up with Lee Yoo-yeon, Kim Ji-hun and Kim Min-joon for a new national record of 3:15.86. However, the team still failed to reach the final. (Yonhap)



 
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