Receive the gold medal... Sunwoo Hwang passes the World Aquatics 100m freestyle preliminaries

6th place overall with 48.15 seconds… Challenge to advance to the finals early in the morning on the 15th, our time

Korean swimming star Hwang Seon-woo (20, Gangwon Provincial Office) continued his performance in the competition held just 15 hours after standing on top of the podium at the World Aquatics Championships.

Sunwoo Hwang took 6th place out of 108 athletes by hitting the touchpad in 48.15 seconds in the men's 100m freestyle preliminaries at the 2024 International Aquatics Federation World Championships held at the Aspire Dome in Doha, Qatar on the 14th. https://www.powerballsite.com

Hwang Sun-woo's first 50m time was 22.88 seconds, the fastest among all athletes participating in the preliminaries, but he controlled his pace for the remaining 50m and ran 25.27 seconds.

Hwang Seon-woo, who secured ample tickets to the semifinals for the top 16, will play the semifinals at dawn on the 15th, Korean time, and the finals will be held at dawn on the 16th.

Sunwoo Hwang advanced to the semifinals in this event at the Fukuoka World Championships last year in 12th place overall, but unfortunately did not get a ticket to the finals, finishing 9th in the semifinals.

Fan Zhanle (China), who became the first swimmer in the men's 400m relay at this competition and set a new world record in the 100m freestyle (46.80 seconds), also took first place overall in the 100m freestyle preliminary round with a time of 47.82 seconds.

Alessandro Miresi (Italy) took second place with 47.94 seconds, and Nandor Nemed (Hungary) took third place with 48.03 seconds. https://www.foodntours.com/blog/638479

Last year's Fukuoka World Championships 200m freestyle winner Matthew Richards (Great Britain) ranked 4th with 48.05 seconds, and Matt King (USA) ranked 5th with 48.11 seconds.

In the men's 200m freestyle final held at 7:05 pm on the 13th local time, Hwang Seon-woo was the first to touch the pad with a time of 1 minute 44.75 seconds and won the gold medal.

After finishing the first gold medal award ceremony at his long course (50m) World Championships, Hwang Sun-woo returned to his lodgings, took a nap, and then participated in the 100m freestyle preliminaries held at 10:15 a.m. on the 14th local time.

Sunwoo Hwang, who originally competed in both the 100m and 200m freestyle, has been preparing with more emphasis on the 200m freestyle since the Tokyo Olympics.

The main event, the 200m freestyle, has steadily shortened the record over the past three years, and the current Korean record is 1 minute 44.40 seconds set at last year's Hangzhou Asian Games.

However, the Korean record for the 100m freestyle remains at 47.56 seconds set by Sunwoo Hwang at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics held in 2021.

For this reason, before leaving for training in Australia last month, Hwang Sun-woo said,

"I am worried because I set a personal best record at the Tokyo Olympics and did not break it.

I think I am not up to the Olympic medal level, so I need to improve a lot.

Still, I will not give up." https://www.liveinternet.ru/users/casinositewiki/post503623211/

Swimswap, a media specializing in swimming, predicted that Hwang Sun-woo would take third place in the 100m freestyle at this competition, following Pan Zanler and Miresh.