Next year's game, to 金! Swimming Hope Lee Ju-ho X Kim Seung-won X Ji Yoo-chan X Yoon Ji-hwan X Cho Sung-jae enters Australia's four-week special training
Sep 08, 2025
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The Korea Swimming Federation (Chairman Chung Chang-hoon) said "We have dispatched a small number of elite six athletes to Australia and Melbourne for four weeks of overseas training from the 7th, including Lee Ju-ho (Seoguksu City Hall) and Kim Seung-won (Yongin Sung-joong, 3rd grader) among the management national team in the 2025 season."
Under the leadership of Kim Hyo-yeol, six athletes, including Lee Joo-ho and Kim Seung-won, men's 50m backstroke Korean record holder Yoon Ji-hwan (Gangwon Special Self-Governing Province), men's 200m breaststroke Korean record holder Cho Sung-jae (Daejeon Metropolitan City Hall), and men's 50m free-style Asian record holder Ji Yoo-chan (Daegu Metropolitan City Hall), will be coached by coach Zol Finck and Nick Belliades at Nunawading Swimming Club in Melbourne, Australia, until the 3rd of next month. They are the leaders who led the British national team to two silver medals during the team event at the 2016 Rio Olympics. The relationship between May 2023 and April 2024 continued for three years, respectively, for the Hangzhou Asian Games and the Paris Olympics.
Through overseas training sponsored by the Korea Sports Association, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, and the Korea Sports Promotion Foundation, the national team aims to improve the performance and physical strength of backstroke and breaststroke players who are likely to participate in next year's Asian Games. It is a special training to enhance international competitiveness in various sports as well as freestyle, which is already prominent on the world stage.
"Since we are able to train in a good environment with only one year left until the 2026 Aichi and Nagoya Asian Games, we plan to train with a clear goal and focus on supplementing each player's weaknesses and physical strength as much as possible," said Kim Hyo-yeol, general manager. "As all of the participants showed potential by breaking records and winning prizes at major international competitions this year, we will do our best to make that possibility become a reality and lead to more achievements." expressed his determination.
Lee Ju-ho, the captain of the national team and who has participated in off-season training at the Nuna Wadding Swimming Club every year since 2023, said "I won a bronze medal in the first Asian Games in 2018 and a silver medal in Hangzhou, but I will work harder to win the gold medal in the third Asian Games next year. Not only me, but all the players I'm going to work with will work hard to achieve their goals at next year's Asian Games" expressed his will.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
