Kim Young-taek advances to the world championship diving 10m final… Paris Olympics confirmed
Input 2023.07.21 (18:17)
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Kim Young-taek (Jeju Provincial Office), the second of the three diving brothers, became the first Korean swimmer to secure the right to participate in the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Kim Young-taek received a total of 425.90 points in the 1st to 6th periods in the men’s diving 10m platform semifinals of the 2023 Fukuoka World Aquatics Championships held at a swimming pool in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan on the 21st and climbed to 8th place, obtaining tickets to the finals given to the top 12 players.
The 10m platform diving is an Olympic event.
There are 12 tickets for the Paris Olympics hanging on the men’s 10m diving platform of this competition, and Kim Young-taek confirmed his trip to Paris with a wonderful performance.
Kim Young-taek, who achieved his first goal, will challenge to break the record for the men’s diving 10m platform (6th place in the 2019 Gwangju Championships) in the final held at 6:30 pm on the 22nd.
In the preliminaries held this morning, Kim Young-taek ranked 11th out of 40 players and advanced to the semi-finals with 18 players competing.
In the semifinals, he jumped three more places to finish in 8th place.
In the 3rd period, Kim Yeong-taek scored 81.00 points by performing 207B of difficulty 3.6 with a pike motion of jumping backwards with his back to the swimming pool and doing three and a half laps with his legs stretched out and holding them with both arms. Looking at the 3rd period alone, he was a score equivalent to 3rd place.
Kim Young-taek, who rose to 11th place in the middle of the 3rd period, finished the semi-finals in 8th place with high scores in the 5th period (5255B) with a twist motion, the 307C exercise in which he jumped forward and flipped back to get into the water, and turned three and a half laps with a jaw motion holding the lower leg with his knees folded.
Kim Young-taek’s older brother Kim Young-nam and younger brother Kim Young-ho are also divers.
At the Tokyo Olympics held in 2021, brothers Kim Young-taek and Kim Young-nam also stood on the stage of the finals together.
At the World Championships in Fukuoka, only Kim Young-taek participated among the three brothers, and Kim Young-taek advanced to the final in the main event, the 10m platform, and booked a second consecutive Olympics.
Kim Young-taek first stood on the stage of the World Championships in Gwangju in 2019 when he was in high school, and only ranked 38th on the 10m platform.
At the Tokyo Olympics, he placed 15th in this event.
Last year, he failed to compete at the World Championships in Budapest.
At the World Championships, which he held for the second time as an individual, Kim Young-taek won his second Olympic berth.
As ‘diving signboard’ Woo Haram devoted himself to springboarding, Kim Young-taek rose to become the ‘platform number one’ in Korean men’s Korean men’s diving, and achieved results worthy of the title of ‘Korea number one’ in Fukuoka.
Lee Jae-kyung (Gwangju City Hall), who advanced to the semi-finals in 17th place in the preliminaries, placed 14th in the semi-finals and unfortunately failed to advance to the finals.
Lee Jae-kyung will try again to secure the right to advance to the Paris Olympics at the continental championships and the World Championships held in Doha, Qatar in February 2024.
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2023-07-21 09:17:00
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