S. Korea Wins First LC Worlds Medal Since 2011

2022 FINA WORLD AQUATICS CHAMPIONSHIPS

It’s been over a decade for the reason that nation of South Korea introduced dwelling any {hardware} from a Lengthy Course World Championships.

Tonight, on day three of the 2022 version in Budapest, Hungary, it was 19-year-old Hwang Sunwoo who watered the nation’s {hardware} drought, firing off a time of 1:44.47 to wrap up silver behind winner David Popovici of Romania within the males’s 200m free.

Hwang Sunwoo’s Korean Nationwide Document Submit

Hwang had already bagged 200m free gold on the 2021 FINA Quick Course World Championships in Abu Dhabi, however his incomes the lengthy course silver medal right here marks the primary tally in Korea’s column since Park Tae Hwan nailed 400m free gold in 2011.

Hwang nonetheless has the boys’s 100m free but to go right here in Budapest so the teenager could add to the kitty earlier than all is claimed and achieved. Regardless, he has cemented himself as the subsequent massive South Korean star since Park, giving him gas to proceed alongside his upward swimming trajectory.

Nationwide Data By Day 3

• South Korea: males’s 4×100 free relay – 3:15.68; Hwang Sunwoo, males’s 200m free – 1:44.47
• Malaysia: Khiew Hoe Yean, males’s 400m freestyle – 3:48.72
• Kyrgyzstan: Denis Petrashov, males’s 50m breaststroke – 27.89
• China: Tang Qianting, ladies’s 50m breaststroke – 30.25
• Singapore: Gan Ching Hwe, ladies’s 1500m freestyle – 16:32.43

MEDAL TABLE (ASIA)