The men’s team won a silver medal in the men’s 400m medley relay at the Asian Games for the first time in 13 years since the 2010 Guangzhou Games led by Park Tae-hwan.
Backstroke Lee Joo-ho, breaststroke Choi Dong-yeol, butterfly Kim Young-beom, and freestyle Hwang Sun-woo participated in the finals, and in addition to the silver medal, they recorded a time of 3 minutes 32.05 seconds, breaking the Korean record (3 minutes 34.25 seconds) set two months ago at the 2023 World Aquatics Championships. Achieved.
In the preliminaries held in the morning, backstroke Lee Joo-ho, breaststroke Cho Seong-jae, butterfly Kim Ji-hoon, and freestyle Lee Ho-jun participated, recording a time of 3 minutes 38.96 seconds, taking third place after the People’s Republic of China (3 minutes 34.80 seconds) and Japan (3 minutes 37.03 seconds). We reached the finals.
And ace Hwang Sun-woo, who won two medals in this competition with a bronze medal in the 100m freestyle and a gold medal in the relay, joined the finals, and Choi Dong-yeol, who took third place in the 100m breaststroke the previous day and presented his first Asian Games medal in 61 years, stepped up to replace Cho Seong-jae. .
The men’s team won a valuable silver medal, beating Japan by 0.47 seconds, following the People’s Republic of China (3:27.01), which broke the Asian record they had set in July.
The Korean national team stood on the podium in this event for the first time since the 2010 Guangzhou Games and enjoyed the joy of winning a medal.
2023-09-26 14:04:00
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