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18-year-old Korean swimmer Hwang Sun-woo, the hope of swimming in Korea, set a new Korean record after half a year in freestyle 100m and confirmed his first Olympic appearance in his life. With a steep record march, I have also cultivated my dream of becoming the Tokyo Olympics medal.
This is reporter Kim Hyung-yeol.
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Hwang Sun-woo's race was of a different dimension.
It broke the current without hesitation with the starting gunfire, and after turning the 50m section first at 23 seconds 17, the gap gradually widened.
When the second place player was knocked out for nearly two seconds and tapped the touch pad at 48 seconds 04, the crowd burst into excitement.
He broke his Korean record by 0.21 seconds in six months, and lightly surpassed the Olympic A standard record.
The first Olympic tickets in my life, which I won on Teacher's Day, were attributed to the talents including coach Lee Jung-hoon.
[Hwang Sun-woo/Soo Young-guk representative: I’m so happy to get an Olympic ticket, and I think it’s really nice to be able to give my teachers a gift.]
Hwang Sun-woo broke Park Tae-hwan’s Korean record at 100m last November, and is the main sport. At 200m, he set the world junior record for the first time in the history of a Korean player.
And by continuing a steep record march, it raised the hope of the Tokyo Medal.
[Hwang Sun-woo/Soo Young-guk representative: I have more confidence and I think I can go to the Tokyo Olympics and play more comfortably. Fighting at the Tokyo Olympics!]
Hwang Seon-woo will hunt for his world junior record in the 200m final tomorrow (16th).
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Kim Seo-young climbed to the top in the women's individual medley 200m and confirmed to participate in the Olympics three times in a row.
(Video coverage: Choi Ho-jun, video editing: Nam-il)