[Asian Games] Korean Men’s MVP Kim Woo-min “Motivated for a Better Record”
After Choi Yun-hee and Park Tae-hwan, he becomes the third Korean swimmer to win three gold medals.
Kim Woo-min (22, Gangwon Provincial Office), who became the third Korean swimmer to win three Asian Games gold medals, also enjoyed the honor of being selected as the Korean team's most valuable player (MVP).
After hearing the news of winning the MVP award, Kim Woo-min said through management company All That Sports on the 8th, "I am really happy to receive the honorable award of MVP of the Korean team at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games. 바카라사이트
I am proud because it feels like I am being rewarded for my training."
He then expressed his ambition, saying, "I am motivated to work harder and achieve better records.
I will show a better race at the Doha World Championships to be held in February next year and the Paris Olympics in July."
He added, "I would like to thank everyone who supported me at this Asian Games.
“Thank you,” he said.
Kim Woo-min won three gold medals and one silver medal in this competition.
On the 25th of last month, in the men's relay 800m final, he set a new Asian record of 7 minutes 01.73 seconds along with Hwang Sun-woo, Yang Jae-hoon (Gangwon Provincial Office), and Lee Ho-jun (Daegu Metropolitan City Hall), becoming the first Korean swimmer to win the team event at the Asian Games on the 28th. In the 800m freestyle, he set a new competition record of 7 minutes 46.03 seconds and won two gold medals.
On September 29, he also won the main event, the men's 400m freestyle, in 3 minutes 44.36 seconds, completing his triple gold medal haul.
He won a silver medal in the 1,500m freestyle.
Before Kim Woo-min, there were two Korean athletes who won three gold medals in a single Asian Games swimming competition.
Former Vice Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Choi Yun-hee won the first triple gold medal in Korean swimming history at the 1982 New Delhi Games, and Park Tae-hwan won the triple gold twice in Doha in 2006 and Guangzhou in 2010.
Kim Woo-min, who solidified his position as Asia's strongest men's freestyle middle and long distance athlete in Hangzhou, heads to the center of the world wearing the 'Hangzhou Asian Games Korean MVP' medal.