Meanwhile, the Korean management team not only won two silver medals and one bronze medal in three events, including Kim Woo-min’s gold medal, but also broke the Korean record and marked the finale of the management event at this competition.
Choi Dong-yeol placed third in the men’s 50m breaststroke final, becoming the first Korean athlete to win an Asian Games medalist in this event.
Choi Dong-yeol recorded 26.92 seconds in the final, breaking the Korean record (27.09 seconds) he set in 2021.
Lee Joo-ho won a silver medal in the men’s 200m backstroke, becoming the first athlete to win a medal in this event 29 years after Ji Ji-jun, who won two consecutive titles at the 1990 Beijing Games and the 1994 Hiroshima Games.
Lee Joo-ho was also named as the second Korean medalist in the men’s 200m backstroke at the Asian Games, and by recording 1 minute 56.54 seconds in the final, he also broke the Korean record (1 minute 56.77 seconds) that he had set at the Tokyo Olympics.
Finally, the team capped off all management events with a silver medal in the women’s 400m medley relay.
Eunji Lee in backstroke, Haru Go in breaststroke, Seoyoung Kim in butterfly, and Yeonkyung Heo in freestyle competed in the finals, recording a time of 4:00.13, beating the Korean record (4:03.38) by a whopping 3.25 seconds.
2023-09-29 14:21:00
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