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"The last 50m, I clenched my teeth. I want to climb all the podiums."
"'King Woo-min' Kim Woo-min (24, Kangwon Provincial Government) smiled broadly after winning his first two consecutive podiums in the men's 400m freestyle at the World Championships.
In the men's 400m freestyle final at the Singapore World Aquatic Championship Arena on the 27th, Kim Woo-min hit the touchpad for the third time out of eight with a time of 3:42.60. Lucas Martens of Germany ranked first with a time of 3:42.35 and was second with a time of 3:42.37 in 0.02 seconds.
Kim Woo-min split the current in lane 5. Lane 4 '2023 World Champion" Samuel Shorts of Australia, Lane 5 'Holders of the world record (3:39.96)' Lucas Mertens of Germany competed fiercely. Kim Woo-min finished the first 50m in 25.05 seconds, second to Mertens. He finished fourth in the 50–100 m section with 27.72 seconds, and after losing second place to Shots, he finished fourth in the 200 m section. Kim Woo-min, who came in third ahead of the 300-meter section, was 0.72 seconds behind Shots until the 350-meter touch, but finished third with a powerful race that ran the final 50m section with a time of 27.62 seconds. Mertens, the gold medalist at the Paris Olympics, came in first with a time of 3:42.35 and Shots, who missed the bronze medal by 0.14 seconds behind Kim Woo-min in Paris, came in second with a time of 3:42.37. It was heartwarming to see the 400m racers, who have already met for the third time at the major stage podium, share friendship while taking selfies.
Park Tae-hwan set his personal best at 3:41:53 in the men's 400-meter freestyle when he won the gold medal at the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games, and Kim Woo-min's personal best at 3:42:42 when he won the gold medal at the third Mare Nostrum Series in June last year. He showed a good record of 0.18 seconds behind his personal best, showing stellar hindsight, and successfully won the medal for the second consecutive time.
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Following Park Tae-hwan's first victory in 13 years (3:42.71) at the Doha World Championships last year, Kim Woo-min, the only Korean golden generation to win a bronze medal (3:42.50) in this event, won the first two consecutive medals in this event. Hwang Sun-woo (22, Kangwon Provincial Government) won three consecutive medals in the main 200m freestyle event, including Budapest silver in 2022, Fukuoka bronze in 2023, and Doha gold in 2024, and Kim Woo-min is the first to win back-to-back medals in the 400m freestyle event, although Park Tae-hwan once won three medals, including two gold medals in Melbourne in 2007 and Shanghai in 2011 and one bronze in the 200m freestyle in Melbourne.
Immediately after the bronze medal, Kim Woo-min said in All That Sports "I'm really happy to be at the podium again. In the future, I want to be at the glorious podium in all the Olympic and World Championships," replied valiantly. "It was my first international competition in a year and the first event in a long time since the Olympics, so I felt awkward and nervous, but when I did it, my body remembered it and I was able to handle the game well,' he said. Regarding winning the bronze medal in the 0.25th second with a 50m storm spurt in the last minute "I knew the opponents would go forward first in the race, but there was not much difference, and I clenched my teeth in the last 50m because there was a catch of Mertens and Shots in the second half " Kim Woo-min will focus on the 400m freestyle, the main event of this competition, and the 800m relay, the team event. The 800m relay was aiming for its first ever medal at the Paris Olympics after winning silver medal after China at the world championships last year, but failed to achieve its goal after failing to discover the fourth letter of '1 min 46 sec'. Thanks to the rapid growth of Kim Young-beom, who appeared like a comet after the Olympics, Hwang Sun-woo, Kim Woo-min, Lee Ho-joon, and Kim Young-beom, Korea set the highest podium with the highest record in the 800m relay event. Kim Woo-min said, `I hope our national team will also receive great strength in the 800m relay as we finished the 400m freestyle, which is our first race today. Good preparation. I'm sure I'll be able to show you a good side."
Meanwhile, Yoo Seung Min, president of the Korean Sports Council, who watched the Singapore World Swimming Championships on the same day, gave generous support and praise, saying "Women GO! GO! GO!" Chairman Yoo also presented gold, silver, and bronze medals to Summer Mackintosh and Katy Rudecki for the "Canada 18th Generation" and "Chinese Sacred" Living Festival 'American Legend', respectively. ,
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
