Swimmer Kim Woo-min is training hard at the Jincheon National Athletes’ Village in Jincheon-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do, on the afternoon of the 26th, 30 days before the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics. 2024.6.26/News 1 ⓒ News 1 Reporter Lee Dong-hae
(Seoul = News 1) Reporter Daehyun Moon = The opening ceremony of the 33rd 2024 Paris Olympics is just ten days away.
Although the public interest has decreased significantly as popular ball sports such as baseball, volleyball, basketball, and soccer have been eliminated one after another in the preliminaries, the Olympics are bound to burn brightly once the lid is opened.
In any case, the fans’ interest is focused on which event will win a medal.
Various sports, including fencing, a traditional sport of the Summer Olympics, and swimming, which is dreaming of a renaissance after the Park Tae-hwan generation, are ready to deliver good news.
The sport that the Korean team is most looking forward to is swimming.
On July 27th (local time), the day after the opening ceremony, Woo-Min Kim (Gangwon Provincial Office) will challenge for his first medal in the men’s 400m freestyle.
Kim Woo-min, who competed only in the men’s 800m freestyle relay at the Tokyo Games three years ago and finished 13th in the preliminaries, gained confidence by winning three gold medals (400m and 800m freestyle, 800m freestyle relay) at the Hangzhou Asian Games last year.
On the same day, fencing will see men’s sabre Oh Sang-wook (Daejeon Metropolitan City Hall) and women’s epee Song Se-ra (Busan Metropolitan City Hall) aim for individual medals. There is also a possibility that the Korean team will win its first surprise medal in the 10m air rifle mixed team (Park Ha-jun, Ban Hyo-jin) that will take place on the same day.
On the 28th, the ‘Trust and See’ women’s archery team event will be held. The women’s national archery team has built a golden tower of nine consecutive wins from the 1988 Seoul Games, when the team event became an official Olympic event, to the 2021 Tokyo Games.
In this competition, Im Si-hyeon (Korea National Sport University), Jeon Hun-yeong (Incheon City Hall), and Nam Su-hyeon (Suncheon City Hall) will pull the bowstring in hopes of winning their 10th consecutive gold medal.
Ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics shooting national team send-off ceremony held at the Olympia Hall of the Seoul Olympic Parktel in Songpa-gu, Seoul on the afternoon of the 2nd, athlete Ban Hyo-jin (right) is talking to the athletes as much as possible. 2024.7.2/News 1 ⓒ News 1 Reporter Park Jeong-ho
On the 29th, the third day of the competition, shooting, judo, swimming, archery, and other events that are considered to be the ‘medal gardens’ will all be held simultaneously. This is the day that people are looking forward to the so-called ‘golden day’.
In the morning, men’s air rifle athlete Park Ha-jun (KT) and women’s air rifle athlete Ban Hyo-jin (Daegu Physical Education High School) will go out hunting for medals.
Judo athlete Heo Mi-mi (Gyeongbuk Sports Council), a descendant of independence activist Heo Seok (1857-1920), is aiming to win the women’s 57 kg class.
The national men’s archery team (Woojin Kim, Wooseok Lee, Jedeok Kim), which is on a two-game winning streak in the Olympic men’s team event, will be challenging for a third consecutive win today.
The last of ‘Golden Day’ will be decorated by Korean swimming ace Hwang Sun-woo (Gangwon Provincial Office) and Kim Woo-min in the 200m freestyle. This is Hwang Sun-woo’s main event, so he is getting more attention.
After that, the men’s and women’s team fencing events will be held. On the 30th, the women’s epee team (Song Se-ra, Choi In-jeong, Kang Yeong-mi, Lee Hye-in) will go for the gold medal, and on the 31st, the men’s sabre team (Oh Sang-wook, Gu Bon-gil, Park Sang-won, Do Kyung-dong) will go for the gold medal.
Fencing player Koo Bon-gil (left) announces his intention to compete at the Team SK 2024 Paris Olympics launch ceremony held at SK T Tower in Jung-gu, Seoul on the 29th. 2024.6.29/News 1 ⓒ News 1 Reporter Kim Seong-jin
Another highly anticipated sport awaits us from August: badminton.
The national badminton team led by coach Kim Hak-gyun is filled with top-class players, including world No. 1 women’s singles player Ahn Se-young (Samsung Life Insurance), world No. 2 women’s doubles player Lee So-hee (Incheon International Airport) – Baek Ha-na (MG Saemaul Geumgo), and world No. 3 mixed doubles player Chae Yu-jeong (Incheon International Airport) – Kang Min-hyeok (Samsung Life Insurance), and is attempting to break the 16-year-long Olympic gold jinx.
The national Taekwondo team is also working to restore the honor of its home country.
Korean Taekwondo, which lost face by failing to win a title in Tokyo, is preparing for a golden kick, starting with Park Tae-jun (Kyunghee University) competing in the men’s 58 kg class on August 7.
They are also aiming for a medal in modern pentathlon. Tokyo Olympic bronze medalist Jeon Woong-tae (Gwangju Metropolitan City Hall) will compete in the individual event on August 10, and 2024 World Championships women’s individual event champion Seong Seung-min (Korea National Sport University) will compete in the individual event on August 11.
An Se-young is having a second special match with Kim Ga-eun at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics badminton national team media day held at the training ground of the Jincheon National Athletes’ Village Handball Stadium in Gwanghyewon-myeon, Jincheon-gun, Chungcheongbuk-do on the afternoon of the 25th. 2024.6.25/News 1 ⓒ News 1 Reporter Park Jeong-ho
◇Major schedule of Korean athletes at the Paris Olympics (local time)
△July 27th
10:00 Fencing Men’s Sabre Individual (Oh Sang-wook), Women’s Epee Individual (Song Se-ra)
11:00 Swimming Men’s Freestyle 400m (Woomin Kim)
△28 days
09:30 Archery Women’s Team Event (Im Si-hyeon, Jeon Hun-yeong, Nam Su-hyeon)
△29th
09:15 Shooting Women’s 10m Air Rifle (Ban Hyo-jin), Men’s 10m Air Rifle (Park Ha-jun)
09:30 Archery Men’s Team Event (Woojin Kim, Wooseok Lee, Jedeok Kim)
10:00 Judo Women’s 57kg Class (Heo Mimi)
20:30 Swimming Men’s Freestyle 200m (Hwang Seon-woo, Kim Woo-min)
△30 days
13:30 Fencing Women’s Epee Team Event (Song Se-ra, Choi In-jeong, Kang Young-mi, Lee Hye-in)
11:00 Swimming Men’s 800m Relay (Hwang Sun-woo, Kim Woo-min, Lee Ho-jun, etc.)
△31 days
13:30 Fencing Men’s Sabre Team Event (Oh Sang-wook, Gu Bon-gil, Park Sang-won, Do Kyung-dong)
△August 2nd
09:30 Archery Mixed Match (Im Si-Hyeon – Kim Woo-Jin)
10:00 Judo Men’s 100kg+ Class (Kim Min-jong)
15:00 Badminton Mixed Doubles (Seo Seung-jae – Chae Yu-jeong, Kim Won-ho – Jeong Na-eun)
△3 days
09:30 Archery Women’s Individual Event (Im Si-Hyeon, Jeon Hoon-Young, Nam Su-Hyeon)
13:00 Fencing Women’s Sabre Team Event (Yoon Ji-soo, Jeon Ha-young, Choi Se-bin, Jeon Eun-hye)
15:00 Badminton Women’s Doubles (Baek Ha-na – Lee So-hee, Kim So-young – Kong Hee-yong)
△4 days
09:30 Archery Men’s Individual (Kim Woo-jin, Lee Woo-seok, Kim Je-deok)
15:00 Badminton Men’s Doubles (Seo Seung-jae – Kang Min-hyeok)
△5 days
09:45 Badminton Women’s Singles (An Se-young)
△7 days
09:00 Taekwondo Men’s 58kg Class (Park Tae-jun)
△8 days
09:00 Taekwondo Women’s 57kg Class (Kim Yu-jin)
△9 days
09:00 Taekwondo Men’s 80kg Class (Seo Geon-woo)
△10 days
09:00 Taekwondo Women’s 67kg Overweight (Dabin Lee)
17:30 Last day of the modern pentathlon men’s individual event (Jeon Woong-tae, Seo Chang-wan)
19:10 Athletics Men’s High Jump (Woo Sang-hyeok)
△11th
11:00 Last day of the modern pentathlon women’s individual event (Kim Seon-woo, Seong Seung-min)
11:30 Weightlifting Women’s 81kg and above (Park Hye-jeong)
2024-07-15 21:04:49
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