Ko Seung-hwan fails to qualify in 46th place in the men's 200m at the World Athletics Championships 21.09

It had been 40 years since Jang Jae-geun had competed in the men's 200 meters at the World Championships.

Liles qualifies for 200m

Noah Liles (2nd L) of the United States reverses during the second heat of the men's 200 meters at the 2023 World Athletics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, on June 23. Ko Seung-hwan also ran in the second heat.

Go Seung-hwan (25-Gwangju Metropolitan Government) became the first South Korean athlete in 40 years to compete in the men's 200 meters at the World Athletics Championships but failed to qualify.

Ko Seung-hwan finished the men's 200 meters in 21.09 seconds to finish seventh in his heat and 46th overall at the 2023 World Championships at the Budapest National Stadium in Hungary on Wednesday.

Of the 56 athletes who qualified on the day, 24 advanced to the semifinals, and Ko did not get a chance to run a second race.

Jang Jae-geun competed in the men's 200 meters at the first World Athletics Championships in Helsinki in 1983, finishing 27th overall in 21.39 seconds. At the time, there were 32 quarterfinalists in the 200 meters, so Jang qualified. However, Jang withdrew from the quarterfinals.

More than 40 years later, Ko Seung-hwan competed in the men's 200 meters at the 19th Budapest Games. In the meantime, no Korean male sprinter had ever competed in the 200 meters at a World Championships.

However, his dream of reaching the men's 200m semifinals remained unfulfilled.

In the men's 100 meters, Kim Kook-young (32-Gwangju Metropolitan Government) became the first Korean sprinter to reach the semifinals at London 2017.

Korean men's sprinter Ko Seung-hwan

Ko Seung-hwan ran alongside Noah Liles (25-USA), the 'best man in the 200 meters', in the second team.

Liles, who won back-to-back 200-meter titles in Doha in 2019 and Eugene in 2022 and became the 100-meter champion at the World Championships in Budapest, qualified first in his 200-meter heat with a time of 20.05, good for second in his heat and third overall.

Janelle Hughes (GBR), 28, qualified for the semifinals in 19.99, while Kenneth Bednarek (USA), 24, who finished second behind Riles in Eugene last year, was second overall in this heat in 20.01.

Eugene bronze medalist Ian Knighton (19-USA), the 2004 world champion sprinting prodigy, qualified for the semifinals in 20.17, first in his heat and eighth overall.

The men's 200-meter semifinals will be held on Friday and the final on Saturday.

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