As expected of King Umin! Defending champion Kim Woo-min.Freeform 400m 3:44:99 qualifying round to the third place final! Second consecutive podium challenge
Jul 27, 2025
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In the men's 400m freestyle preliminaries at the 2025 World Aquatics Championships held at the Singapore Arena on the 27th (Korea time), Kim Woo-min easily made the final run with a time of 3:44.99 and third place overall.
Kim Woo-min, who played in Group 4 of the preliminary round, took a touchpad in second place after Australia's Samuel Short (3:42.07), the champion of this event in 2023. Lucas Mertens (Germany), the gold medalist at the Paris Olympics and the world record of 3:39.96 in April, ranked second overall at 3:43.81.
Kim Woo-min will try to win two consecutive medals and two consecutive medals in the final at 8:02 p.m. Kim Woo-min was the first to hit the touchpad at the Doha World Championships last year in 3:42.71 to win the gold medal in the event for the first time in 13 years since Park Tae-hwan at the 2011 Shanghai Games, and he was the only golden ace to reach the podium with a bronze medal in the event at the Paris Olympics last year. The Korean record for men's 400-meter freestyle is 3:41:53, which Park Tae-hwan set when he won the gold medal at the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games, and Kim's personal best is 3:42:42, which he set when he won the gold medal at the third event of the Mare Nostrum Series in June last year. Defending champion Kim Woo-min will once again challenge the Korean record with the podium at his fifth World Championships.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
