Seon-woo Hwang, a swimmer who sets a new record every time he competes in

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finished 5th in the 100m freestyle final.

In the Olympics, the 100m freestyle is an event that has not been easily given up to Asian athletes in the past, but an 18-year-old Korean athlete proudly named it.



By Kim Hyung-yeol, staff reporter.



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Hwang Seon-woo, who reached the final stage for the first time in 65 years as an Asian athlete in the 100m freestyle, which is called the 'flower of swimming', jumped into the water the fastest in lane 6 next to the world's strongest dress.



The body was not light in the successive march.



After finishing 6th in the 50m section, I did my best in the last 50m, and I hit the touchpad at 47.82, 0.26 seconds later than the Asian record set in the semifinal yesterday (28th).



Although he missed the medal by placing 5th, he achieved the best performance by an Asian athlete in 69 years since Hiroshi, Japan's silver medal in 1952.




[Hwang Seon-woo/Sooyoung National Team: It's very refreshing. Now that I have run all of my main events in the 100m and 200m... I'm very refreshed~]



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Seon-

woo raced for five days in a row, setting new world junior records in both events and breaking Asian and Korean records one after another.



If we only reinforce our experience and stamina, three years later, a medal for the Paris Olympics is expected to be sufficient.



[Hwang Seon-woo / National Suyeong National Team: I have been playing a lot of matches in a row, so it is physically very difficult, but I think this is another experience and now it is an opportunity to go up step by step.] The



challenge is not over.



Hwang Seon-woo burns his last fighting spirit in the 50m freestyle starting tomorrow evening.



[Hwang Seon-woo/Sooyoung National Team: I want to do my best up to 50m neatly and now I want to go back to Korea. I will work even harder in the future to become a good swimmer. Thank you!]



(Video coverage: Ha Ryung, Video editing: Park Chun-bae)



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