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Hwang Seon-woo, the hope of Korean swimming, advanced to the 200m freestyle final. The finals will be held on the morning of the 27th.
By Kim Hyung-yeol from Tokyo.
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Seon-
woo, who passed the 1st place by setting the world junior record in the preliminary round, adjusted his pace in the semi-finals and raced leisurely.
With the fastest reaction time of 0.6 seconds, he jumped into the water and kept pace with the players in the next lane without overdoing it.
Hwang Seon-woo, who took the touch pad for the fifth time in a fierce battle at the end, reached the final 6th overall with a record of 1:45.53, close to 1 second from the preliminary round.
[Hwang Seon-woo/Suyeong National Team: I just continued racing with the thought of going with the player next to me. It's great that I made it to the finals and I think I'll have to work hard to get a good record in the finals. Condition management... .]
Hwang Seon-woo was the third Korean athlete to reach the finals in 9 years, after Nam Yu-sun at the 2004 Athens Olympics and Park Tae-hwan at the Beijing and London Olympics.
In this event, where Park Tae-hwan won the silver medal for the second time in a row, he is expected to compete with Duncan Scott of England, who is the world's number one and semi-final number one this season.
[Hwang Seon-woo / National Swimming Team: Please support the 200m freestyle final a lot and I will do my best to show you a good side. Fighting!]
Hwang Seon-woo, who was assigned to lane 7 as seen now in the final stage, will challenge the historic golden race this morning.
In the women's individual medley 200m, Seoyoung Kim reached the semifinals.
With a time of 2:11.54, he finished 15th overall and secured a ticket to the semi-finals of two consecutive competitions.