Kim Woo-min recorded 3 minutes 43 seconds 92 in the men’s 400m freestyle final at the 2023 World Swimming Championships held at a swimming pool in Fukuoka, Japan on July 23, breaking his personal record of 3 minutes 44 seconds 52 set in the preliminaries, breaking his own record twice in one day.
After setting a personal best record of 3:45:59 at the Gimcheon National Championships in March of this year, Kim Woo-min entered the 3:43 invitation today and advanced about 2 seconds, showing improved performance and improved skills.
He finished 6th out of 55 in the preliminaries, making it to the World Championships final for the second time in a row. Kim Woo-min maintained 3rd place from the final to the 200m section, but unfortunately could not keep pace and finished 5th.
Kim Woo-min reached the final in 5 years after Park Tae-hwan in 2017 in the men’s freestyle 400m event held in Budapest last June, and finished 6th in the final with a time of 3:45:64. Meanwhile, Park Tae-hwan, the only Korean athlete to medal in this event, won gold medals at the 2007 Melbourne Games and the 2011 Shanghai Games.
Despite the upward leveling of the skills of players from each country, he rose one notch in the ranking along with the record in about a year.
Meanwhile, Samuel Short, born in 2003, a rising star from Australia, a business powerhouse, won his first world championship gold medal with a time of 3:40:68.
The silver medal went to Tunisia’s Ahmed Hafnawi, the Tokyo 2020 gold medalist who did not make an appearance in Budapest last year. Hafnawi also broke the African continental record with a time of 3:40.70.
Germany’s Lucas Martens, born in 2001, the same age as Kim Woo-min, won the bronze medal with a time of 3:42:20.
2023-07-23 12:22:00
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