[한국태권도신문] Lee Da-bin, the Korean female heavyweight who suffered a severe slump until recently, returns in a year.
World Taekwondo Grand Prix medal was hung around his neck.
Lee Da-bin (Seoul City Hall) withdrew due to an ankle injury in the women’s 67kg and above semi-finals on the final day of the ‘Paris 2023 World Taekwondo Grand Prix 2nd Competition’ held in Levallois Perret near Paris, France on the 3rd (local time). I was satisfied with winning the bronze medal this year.
Previously, in the quarterfinals, against Turkey’s strong Nafia Kus, he scored an additional goal with a quick down kick with his right foot in the first round, followed by a deep round kick with his left foot. However, while running mid-step, he sprained his left ankle and collapsed suddenly. Lee Da-bin, who fell in the stadium for about a minute, got up again and managed to win 11-10 after a slugfest.
Lee Da-bin, who entered the match with a confident appearance in the second round, took the lead with a right-footed down kick and then succeeded in a series of attacks, winning early by a margin of 13 to 1.
Lee Da-bin continued his upward trend by winning the 4th Grand Prix in his personal career by winning 2 consecutive victories from the Rome Grand Prix in June of last year to the Paris Grand Prix. After overcoming a fractured finger during the World Championships in Guadalajara in November, she won a silver medal, which was disappointing but satisfactory.
However, after that, he failed to win medals in a row, including the Riyadh Grand Prix Final, this year’s Baku World Championships, and the Rome Grand Prix.
Immediately after the game, Lee Da-bin said, “The goal of this tournament was to have fun and do it. He hoped to win a medal as well. At the World Championships in Baku and the Grand Prix in Rome, my confidence dropped a lot because I kept failing and losing. It was a feeling that really fell to the bottom. But while playing today, I thought that I was still fine with my stamina and skills. I even won a medal there, so my confidence grew. I will concentrate on treating the injury right away and perform well in the Asian Games in two weeks,” she said.
On this day, at the World Taekwondo Championships in Baku, Korea, Sang-hyun Kang (Korea National Sport University), who regained the top spot in the men’s -87kg class for the first time in 18 years, was invited to participate in the Grand Prix for the first time. Expectations were high, but in the round of 16, after a close match with Ivan Safina of Croatia until the third round, he lost with a round score of 1-2 (6-9, 16-10, 10-16) and failed to win a medal.
As a result, 14 Korean taekwondo athletes competed in the 8 men’s and women’s weight classes at this Grand Prix, ending the tournament with two bronze medals won by Lee Da-bin and high school girl Hong Hyo-rim (Gangwon Physical Education High School) only in the women’s division, which had recently been sluggish.
On the other hand, in the male division with good power, many players with high chances of winning medals, such as Jang Jun (Korea Gas Corporation), Park Tae-jun (Kyunghee University), Jin Ho-jun (Suwon City Hall), Park Woo-hyuk (Samsung S1), and Seo Kun-woo (Korea National University of Physical Education) participated, but without much success. ended up with a no medal.
The poor performance at this Grand Prix, held about a year before the ‘2024 Paris Olympics’ in early August next year, is painful. Securing the right to automatically qualify for the Olympics, given to the country up to 5th in each weight category, faced the worst situation ever.
The concerns of the national team, which have suffered a series of sluggish results recently, are deepening. Regarding the sluggish performance, they took seriously problems such as ‣Lack of detailed analysis of opponents ‣Lack of earnestness for victory ‣Lack of game management ‣Lack of goal consciousness. In order to overcome this, he announced a major change in the national team’s training method.
A national team leader said, “Both the coach and the players worked hard. However, the results fell short of expectations. We are already thinking a lot about future countermeasures through many conversations between the leaders in the field. The common opinion is that this is not the case. I will work hard to change the training method as well as the goal consciousness of each player.”
2023-09-04 09:33:23
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