Daegu Physical Education High School won 19 gold, 15 silver, and 18 bronze medals at the National Sports Festival… Achieved the highest grades since the school opened

Daegu Sports High School (Principal Cho Dae-seung) won a total of 52 medals (19 gold, 15 silver, and 18 bronze) and scored about 6,100 points at the ‘105th National Sports Festival‘ held in Gyeongnam from the 11th to the 17th. achieved the best score ever.

From the first day of the competition, Ban Hyo-jin, a gold medalist at the 2024 Paris Olympics, gained momentum by winning two gold medals in the girls’ high school shooting (air rifle) event, and won medals in all events, contributing greatly to Daegu City’s high school reaching 5th place overall.

Daegu Physical Education High School students who won medals at the National Sports Festival are taking a commemorative photo with Daegu Superintendent Kang Eun-hee.

The gold medals at this National Sports Festival were weightlifting (Dae-hee Kwon, 3 times), archery (3 times, Soo-hee Yoon), high school girls’ shooting-air rifle (2 times Ban Hyo-jin), high school boys’ shooting-air rifle (2 pieces by Jang Byeong-jun), weightlifting (Seong-ho Kim, 2 times), and Won multiple gold medals in weightlifting (Kim Soo-min, 2), and medals in wrestling at 63kg (Min Yeo-jin), track and field 800m (Song Hyun-seo), track and field 400mH (Kwak Ui-chan), gymnastics vault (Ahn Dae-geon), and bicycle girls’ high school sprint demonstration event (Kim Ji-ah). In addition, a total of 19 were obtained.

In addition, silver medals were won in the 100m and 200m track and field (2 by Kim Dong-jin) and 100mH (1 by Kwak Ui-chan), as well as boxing (3), weightlifting (4), wrestling (3), gymnastics (1), and fin swimming (1). ), and bronze medals were won in weightlifting (3), track and field (3), swimming (2), modern pentathlon (2), archery (1), boxing (1), and gymnastics. A total of 18 items were obtained in (1), Judo (1), Bicycle (1, Demonstration 1), and Yachting (1, Demonstration 1).

In particular, most of the student athletes who won gold, silver, and bronze medals at this National Sports Festival are first and second year students, so we are even more excited about the 106th National Sports Festival to be held in Busan next year.

Daegu Sports High School, where all students are student athletes, wakes up at 5:30 a.m. in the dormitory and begins the day with early morning training from 6 a.m. to 7:20 a.m. We have a tough schedule every day, with normal classes from 1st to 5th periods, afternoon training starting at 2:30pm, and night training starting from 7:30pm to 9pm.

This training system is the driving force behind taking third place in the 105th National Sports Festival, following Seoul Sports High School and Gyeonggi Sports High School, and consistently ranking high in the annual National Sports Festival and national competitions against national sports high schools.

Daegu Sports High School is preparing for next year by closely evaluating and analyzing the performance and training system of each sport and player this year. We plan to share these results at a workshop with coaches and coaches, and conduct intensive winter strengthening training through student athlete management and scientific training method training.

Dae-seung Cho, principal of Daegu Physical Education High School, said, “We are doing our best to help student-athletes achieve their career dreams. In particular, we will support the purpose of establishing a special sports high school and an operating system appropriate for the times so that the school and student athletes can grow stably together.”

Reporter Koo Dae-seon of Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters k5865@asiae.co.kr