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Oct 18, 2025
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>'King Woo-min' Kim Woo-min (Gangwon Provincial Office) gave a special thank you to Busan fans after winning the men's 1500m freestyle gold medal with an overwhelming race at the 106th Busan National Sports Festival held at Sajik Indoor Swimming Pool in Busan on the 18th.
As soon as Kim Woo-min's name was called out and Kim Woo-min hit the touchpad first with an absolute race, hot cheers rang out from the stands. Kim Woo-min said, "I'm from Busan, so I think the fans cheered for me a lot" he said. Reporters diagnosed that the popularity of the Paris Olympics after winning the bronze medal at the Singapore World Championships "There seems to be such a thing.", he affirmed.
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Kim Woo-min ran in the 1,500-meter race for the first time in a year since last year's athletic competition. He ranked first among 11 players with a time of 15:00:54. In 2022, Park Tae-hwan failed to break his personal record of 14:54.25, which was set at the 103rd Ulsan National Sports Festival, and the Korean record of 14:47.38 set in 2012, but he proved his presence with an absolute solo and overwhelming race that was nearly 20 seconds apart from the second place from the beginning to the end.
The 1,500m freestyle is an ironclad and extreme race that requires you to break the current for nearly 15 minutes. Asked if he had any greed for a new tournament record, Kim Woo-min said, `In the case of this race, I didn't have a sense of race because it's been a long time since I ran. At first, I thought to go slowly, but the record came out faster than I thought, so I finished the race comfortably. I aimed for a personal record of 14 minutes and 54 seconds, but it came out better than I thought, so I'm comforting myself."
Ahead of the Aichi and Nagoya Asian Games next year 'Hangzhou triple crown' Kim Woo-min did not hide his greed for 1,500m freestyle as well as 400m freestyle in the main event. "I aimed to win four gold medals at the Hangzhou Asian Games, but I failed to achieve my goal by finishing second in the 1500m. When I think about the Asian Games, it's a shame. In next year's Asian Games, I want to win a gold medal in the 1,500m and try to win four gold medals." "You have to be good at 1500m to do that. I'm greedy." "One of my shortcomings is that I'm afraid of 1500m, and if you're a long-distance runner, of course you have to challenge yourself." Think. I'm drawing a picture of competing with world-class players at the World Championships or big tournaments."
On the first day of the National Sports Festival, Kim Woo-min, who lightly won his first gold medal, will hunt for additional gold medals in the main 400m freestyle, the team 400m relay, and the 800m relay on the 21st. Kim Woo-min, the only bronze medalist of the golden generation at the Paris Olympics, won four gold medals in all sports she competed in last year. Again, the goal is to win a gold medal in all events. "I was worried that the 1,500m race would be physically difficult before the sports competition, but I finished the first race well, so I think I will be able to finish the rest of the race well."," he said with a smile.
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
