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Intense training in Australia for 3 weeks in preparation for the Doha World Championships and Paris Olympics Korea's first team medal challenger in men's 800m relay

Korea's men's freestyle swimming team training in Australia

From left, Hojun Lee, Seonwoo Hwang, Woomin Kim, Jaehoon Yang, and Yuyeon Lee.

Representative men's freestyle athletes such as Hwang Sun-woo and Kim Woo-min (Gangwon Provincial Office), who opened the renaissance of Korean swimming, are increasing the intensity of training in Australia to win medals at the 2024 Doha World Championships and Paris Olympics.

Athletes training in Queensland, Australia, gave an ‘interim report’ to Korean swimming fans through All That Sports on the 23rd.

Korean swimming star Hwang Seon-woo said, “I am training intensely here in the high temperature. It is difficult, but if I endure this training well, I will achieve good results in the individual events (100m and 200m freestyle) and the 800m team relay at the upcoming World Championships in Doha.” “You can get it,” he said.

In the 200m freestyle, Hwang Seon-woo, who ranked second in Budapest in 2022 and third in Fukuoka in 2023 and became the first Korean swimmer to win two consecutive world championships medals, aims to win a medal three times in a row at the Doha Games, which opens in February this year.Additionally, along with his teammates, he will attempt to win the first World Championships team medal in Korean swimming history.

Korean freestyle swimming team and Australian coaching staff training in Australia

Kim Woo-min, who is aiming to win his first individual world championships in the 400m freestyle, said, "Training is really hard. However, my expectations have grown that I can get good results through difficult training." He added, "I have to achieve a good record at the Doha World Championships to hope for a medal at the Paris Olympics." “I can. I’m working hard on preparing for the individual event and relay race,” he said.

Lee Ho-jun (Daegu Metropolitan City Hall) also said, “My body and mind are getting stronger,” and said, “I will show that advancing to the finals of the 200m freestyle (6th place) at the 2023 Fukuoka Games was not luck. I want to win a medal in the 800m relay.” Chopped.

The Korean Swimming Federation selected Hwang Seon-woo, Kim Woo-min, Lee Ho-jun, Yang Jae-hoon (Gangwon Provincial Office), and Lee Yu-yeon (Goyang City Hall) as 'special strategic training athletes for the Paris Olympics' and sent them to Australia on the 5th.

They will be training jointly with the University of the Sunshine Coast's swimming team until February 3 and receive guidance from coach Michael Pulferry.

Coach Pulperi said, "Kim Woo-min can shorten the record. There are many more things that have not yet been discovered. Lee Ho-jun has excellent instantaneous acceleration, so just like Kim Woo-min, he can go faster if he puts his mind to it." He added, "Hwang Sun-woo is still young. “I will become a better athlete by approaching the 50m, 100m, and 200m more carefully,” he said.

The Korean men's 800m relay team dreams of winning its first medal at the World Championships in Doha in February and reaching the podium at the Paris Olympics in July. 스포츠토토맨