▶ Baseball defeats Israel and advances to the semi-finals, clash with Japan on the 4th
▶ Women’s handball advances to the Olympic quarterfinals for the first time in 9 years… Sweden will face off for a quarter-final ticket
(Tokyo = Yonhap News) National gymnastics representative Shin Jae-hwan smiles brightly on the podium after winning the gold medal in the men’s gymnastics vault final at the Tokyo Olympics held at Ariake Gymnastics Stadium in Japan on the 2nd.
Shin Jae-hwan (23, Jecheon City Hall) achieved the second Olympic gold medal in Korean gymnastics history.
Shin Jae-hwan scored an average of 14.783 points in the first and second rounds in the men’s gymnastics vault finals at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games held at Ariake Gymnastics Stadium in Tokyo, Japan on the 2nd (local time) and tied with Denis Ablyazin (Russian Olympic Committee).
However, in the event of a tie, Shin Jae-hwan became the protagonist of the podium according to the tie-break rule that the person with the higher score in the first or second period wins.
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Shin Jae-hwan’s score was the highest with 14.833 points received in the second period. Ablyazin’s highest point was also 14.800 points in the second period.
With a difference of 0.033 points, the medals were colored gold and silver.
Shin Jae-hwan is the second Korean gymnast to win an Olympic gold medal in 9 years after Yang Hak-seon (Suwon City Hall) at the 2012 London Games.
Shin Jae-hwan, who received 14.733 points in the first period with a 6.0-point Yonekura technique that rotates three and a half times while holding the chopping board sideways, scored 14.833 points with a 5.6-point female second skill in the second period.
Shin Jae-hwan, who finished first with 14.866 points in the preliminary round, decorated a page in the history of Korean gymnastics by taking the top spot on the podium in the final.
In the women’s badminton doubles match between Korean players, Kim So-young (Incheon International Airport) and Gong Hee-yong (Jeonbuk Bank) won the bronze medal.
(Tokyo = Yonhap News) Shin Seung-chan (from left), Lee So-hee, Gong Hee-yong, and Kim So-young, who competed for the bronze medal in the women’s badminton doubles at the Tokyo Olympic After finishing, we met at the mix zone and are taking a commemorative photo together.
The Kim So-Young-Gong Hee-Yong group defeated Lee So-Hee and Shin Seung-Chan (Incheon International Airport) group 2-0 (21-10 21-17) to split 3rd and 4th place among Korean players.
When the match between Korean players over a medal was over, the four players wept together and shared congratulations and condolences.
Following the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, South Korea received a bronze medal in women’s doubles for the second time in a row at the Olympic Games.
South Korea, which added one gold and one bronze medal on that day, is ranked ninth in the medal ranking with 6 gold medals, 4 silver medals, and 9 bronze medals.
China, with 29 gold medals, is in first place, followed by the United States (22 gold) and Japan (17 gold) in second and third places.
The baseball team advanced to the semifinals by winning the 11-1 and 7th cold games against Israel in the second round of the knockout stage.
Korea, where Oh Ji-hwan and Kim Hyeon-soo (above LG) achieved a hot victory by running a home run, will face Japan in the semifinals at 7 pm on the 4th.
Japan beat the United States 7-6 after 10 extra innings on the same day, and went on to win their third consecutive win in this tournament.
Haram Woo (National Sports Promotion Agency), who is aiming for the first medal in the history of the Korean Olympics in diving, advanced to the semifinals by placing 5th out of 29 participants in the men’s 3m springboard qualifier that day.
If Haram Woo is ranked 12th in the semi-final with 18 people on the morning of the 3rd, he can advance to the final held on the afternoon of the same day.
Korean diving has participated in the Olympics since 1960 in Rome, but has not yet received a medal.
Her best performance was reaching the final on the men’s 10m platform at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
Korean women’s handball drew 31-31 with Angola and passed the group stage with 1 win, 1 draw and 3 losses.
This is the first time in nine years that women’s handball has advanced to the quarterfinals of the Olympic Games after placing 4th at the 2012 London Games.
On the 4th, Korea will challenge to advance to the quarterfinals against Sweden, who placed first in Group B.
In the men’s and women’s table tennis team event, Korea made it to the men’s quarterfinals and the women’s quarterfinals.
The men’s team, consisting of Lee Sang-soo (Samsung Life Insurance), Jung Young-sik, and Jang Woo-jin (Lee Sang Mirae Asset Securities), won the quarterfinals 3-0 against Brazil and advanced to the quarterfinals.
Korea will face China in the quarterfinals on the afternoon of the 4th.
The women’s national team, composed of Shin Yu-bin (Korean Air), Jeon Ji-hee (Posco Energy), and Choi Hyo-joo (Samsung Life Insurance), also won the round of 16 against Poland 3-0.
On this day, Natalia Partica, well-known as a ‘one-armed player’, participated in the Polish national team and caught the attention of fans.
Partica, who was born without the lower part of her right elbow, played her first match against Shin Yu-bin, but the match ended with Shin Yu-bin’s 3-2 (11-6 12-10 11-13 4-11 13-11) victory.
The women’s national team will play Germany in the quarter-finals on the morning of the 3rd.
Laurel Hubbard of New Zealand, the first Olympic athlete to undergo gender reassignment surgery, competed in the women’s 87kg weightlifting class, but was disqualified after failing all three raise times.
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