<Anchor> With the
Tokyo Paralympic Games ending the day after Sunday (the 5th), our table tennis team added a silver medal in the team event. In this competition alone, he won his 13th medal, rewriting the record for the most.
This is Lee Jeong-chan, a reporter from Tokyo.
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Korea, which reached the final in the team event with Cha Su-yong and Park Jin-cheol, who won bronze medals side by side in the individual event, did not cross the last hurdle.
In the individual event gold medalist Ramiro played a tenacious match against France, but in the first doubles match, after five sets, he was pushed from the back center. In the second singles match, Su-Yong Cha performed well, but struggled with Ramiro's powerful spin shot and the set score was 3:1. lost with
Suyong Cha, who confirmed the silver medal, showed the dignity of a Paralympian by respecting the winner.
[Cha Su-yong / Paralympic Table Tennis National Team: I played the game without regrets. I am not satisfied with the result, but I am still trying to be satisfied with the silver medal by admitting defeat.]
With this, the table tennis team, which won 13 medals in this competition alone, surpassed 12 at the 1988 Seoul Games, setting a new record for the most medals ever.
In particular, in the first-class individual event, Joo Young-dae raised three Taegeukgi to the Tokyo sky, winning the only gold medal for our team so far. Two medals were hung around his neck to light the future.
[Kim Hyun-wook / Paralympic Table Tennis National Team: Putting aside my regrets and looking to Paris in three years, I will work harder and come back.]
After a long journey of 10 days writing a new history, the table tennis team will return home tomorrow and return to the warm arms of the family. going.
--- In the
shooting rifle 3-position, 49-year-old Shim Young-jip took third place and won her first medal in her life.
(Video coverage: Kim Yong-woo, video editing: Oh Young-taek)