The ESP Guitar Company

Singer Byun Jin-seop's son Byun Jae-joon and best friend Kim Ji-hye, a mixed duet technical performance at the World Swimming Championships

Byun Jae-jun (20) and Kim Ji-hye (19, Kyung Hee University) made it to the top 10 in the world in the artistic swimming mixed duet technical final at the World Aquatics Championships, the first Korean swimmers to participate. 카지노사이트

Byun Jae-jun and Kim Ji-hye scored 190.2934 points in the 2023 World Aquatics Championships Artistic Swimming Mixed Duet Technical Final held at Marine Messe Fukuoka Hall in Fukuoka, Japan on the 16th and finished in 10th place out of 12 participating teams.

They performed with their whole body to the music of Caroline Campbell-William Joseph's 2016 song 'Get in to the Tango Rhythm' and received an artistic score of 93.5500 and a performance score of 96.7434.

Byun Jae-joon and Kim Ji-hye caused a stir by coming in 6th out of 16 participating countries in the preliminaries held the day before.

This is the first World Championships mixed duet contest, the 'college alumni' couple won the final ticket given to 12th place.

In spite of herself, she aimed for the first world championship medal in the history of Korean artistic swimming, but the first challenge was finished in 10th place.

The collaboration between Byun Jae-jun and Kim Ji-hye in the 'Top 10' is also an achievement that will remain in the history of Korean artistic swimming.

Moreover, the two reached the final stage of the world championships through 'intensive training for a month'.

After the match, Byun Jae-joon said, "The preparation period was not long enough. It

was about a month when I selected the music and focused on acting accordingly." I saw.

"I promised to make up for the disappointment right after the preliminaries in the finals and produce better results, but in the finals, I was happy that the movements were carried out as I had intended," he said. added.

Kim Ji-hye said, "I asked Ji-hyeon Song to maintain a higher level and receive additional points, but I got more art points in the finals than in the preliminaries, but there were some parts that did not receive additional points, so I will pay more attention in the free time."

Byun Jae-Jun is Korea's first male artistic swimmer.

Player 2 has not yet been born.

Byun Jae-joon is the son of singer Byun Jin-seop, who is known as the 'Emperor of Ballad'.

His mother is Lee Joo-young, who is active as a member of the national artistic swimming team and won gold medals in the junior solo and team event at the 1993 Age Group Championships in Düsseldorf, Germany.

Byun Jae-joon, who registered as an elite artistic swimmer in 2015 and became the first male swimmer in Korea, confirmed his international competitiveness by winning the duet technical in the junior division of the International Swimming Federation Artistic Swimming World Series in 2018.

In 2020, he won both the junior men's solo and mixed duet categories at the 'Artistic Swimming Virtual Challenge', an online competition hosted by the International Swimming Federation.

At this time, he also acted in the male solo section to his father Byun Jin-seop's song, 'Bad Love'.

The artistic swimming mixed duet event has become an official world championship event since the 2015 Kazan Games, and Korea participated for the first time in Fukuoka.

Byun Jae-joon was the first Korean to participate in a mixed duet competition, and achieved a remarkable achievement by reaching the top 10.

Kim Ji-hye participated in the team event at the 2019 Gwangju World Championships.

This time, she paired up with her longtime friend Byun Jae-joon in a duet technical match and wrote the first Korean record together.

On the morning of the 21st, Byun Jae-joon and Kim Ji-hye will also compete in the mixed duet preliminaries and challenge to advance to the final once again.

Byun Jae-jun said, “I have three more days to prepare,” and promised, “I will prepare harder and play a game without regret.”

Kim Ji-hye presented a specific goal, saying, "I will further raise the artistic level and level."

Meanwhile, Yotaro Sato and Tomoko Sato (Japan), 'Sato Siblings', who finished third in the preliminaries, scored 255.5056 points to win the gold medal.

The Sato siblings, who won only two silver medals in the mixed duet technical and free at last year's Budapest competition, succeeded in fighting their grievances in the competition held in their home.

Denis Gonzalez-Emma Garcia (Spain), who placed first in the preliminary round, had to settle for the silver medal with 248.0499 points.

García, who missed out on a medal in fourth place in last year's Budapest Games, teamed up with Pau Ribes, switched her partner to González to win a medal.

Si Hao Yu-Cheng Wen Tao (China) won the bronze medal with 247.3033 points.