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The Gwangju World Swimming Championships management ceremony started today (May 21). Kim Seo Young, a 200m medal candidate for the women's individual medley, came to the semi-finals after a while, and China's Yi Yang had just won his first ever 400m freestyle event for the fourth consecutive time.

It is reporter Jeong Hee-don.

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Kim Seo-young of the No. 4 lane starts strong from the preliminary round and shakes off with his shotgun.

Kim Seo-young, who swam 50m each of the backstroke and free-form swimming after starting the butterfly, finished 2nd in the second and 11th and 45th places, followed by the US and Japan. It was up.

Kim Seo-young, who has accumulated power in the preliminary round, can go to the finals tomorrow after reaching eighth place in the semifinals after a while.

Kim Seo-young is expected to stretch out his medal ticket if only two minutes and eight invitations recorded during the Asian Games of Jakarta last year were won.

In the 400m freestyle man who finished a little while ago, China's Yangyang, who was in a controversy over avoiding doping tests, reached the summit and achieved four consecutive victories.

The 400m four consecutive championship is the first record in the history of the world swimming championship.

(Image editing: Choi Eun Jin)