Kim Yu-jin of Korea celebrates as she holds the Taegeukgi after winning the gold medal by defeating Nahid Kiyanichande of Iran in the women’s 57kg taekwondo final at the Paris 2024 Olympics was held at the Grand Palais Taekwondo Stadium in Paris, France on the 8th (local time). . / Photo = Yonhap News The Korean team won its 13th gold medal at the Paris 2024 Olympics, challenging for the best ever performance.
From the 9th (Korean era), the Korean team won a total of 28 medals, including 13 gold medals, 8 silver medals, and 7 bronze medals. He was 6th in the overall ranking (in order of gold medals), well above his previous target (15th place).
Korean athletes share their joy after defeating Hungary to win the gold medal in the saber fencing team final at the Paris 2024 Olympics held at the Grand Palais in Paris, France on the 31st of last month (local time / Photo = Yonhap). News Men’s saber fencing Oh Sang-wook (Daejeon Metropolitan City Hall) By winning this individual event, she reported her first gold medal, and in shooting, Oh Ye-jin (IBK Industrial Bank of Korea) and Ban Hyo-jin (Daegu Physical). Secondary Education) amazing gold medal. In archery, their favorite sport, both men’s and women’s teams dominated the team competition.
Korea, which won 10 Paris Olympic gold medals in archery (archery 5), firearms (shooting 3), and swords (2 fencing), has 13, including Ahn Se-young (Samsung Life Insurance) in women’s badminton singles (Samsung Life Insurance). ) and 2 in taekwondo.
In particular, Taekwondo presented more than two gold medals for the first time in eight years since the Rio de Janeiro Games 2016. Taekwondo, after Park Tae-jun (Kyung Hee University) the day before, Kim Yu-jin added to the parade the gold medal, showing its status as a leading country for the first time in a long time.
Expected 5 ‘sure gold’… Now challenge for ‘best score ever’
Members of the South Korean archery team, which won gold medals in the individual, team and mixed team archery competitions at the Paris 2024 Olympics, pose after returning to Korea via Incheon International Airport. / Picture = News 1 Before going to Paris, the Korean Sports Council only expected three archery and two fencing events as ‘guaranteed gold medal’ events. However, as the players did better than expected from the start of the competition, their confidence rose significantly.
This time, Korea sent 144 players to Paris, the fewest in 48 years since the 1976 Montreal Games, due to the group’s poor performance in team member games. Nevertheless, they disappoint everyone and write a new legend.
The medal ratings predicted by a supercomputer by ‘Insider Game’, a British media outlet that provides Olympic information, were also far higher than the medal ratings. The British sports betting platform OLBG supercomputer expected,, Gold, Silver, and Bronze at this year’s Paris Games, and 18th place in the overall ranking.
Until the closing date on the 11th (local time), Korea is expected to continue its momentum and secure an additional gold medal in today’s pentathlon. The modern pentathlon is a sport in which one athlete competes in fencing, swimming, horse riding, track and field, and shooting.
If today’s pentathlon, which is chasing its first gold medal and several medals, enters the gold mine, it will set a new record for most gold medals in a single Olympics. It is also possible to break the record for most medals ever (33, 12 gold, 10 silver, 11 bronze) set at the Seoul Games in 1988.
Seulgi Lee, Hankyung.com reporter [email protected]
2024-08-08 23:05:16
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