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16-year-old girl, Shin Soo-min, a promising Korean modern pentathlon, has achieved the feat of winning both the 17-year-old and the under-19-year-old championships at the same time for the first time in the world.
By Kim Hyung-yeol, staff reporter.
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16-year-old Su-min Shin, who won the first gold medal in Korea at the Under-17 World Championships three days ago, also outperformed her two or three-year-old competitors at the Under-19 Championship.
She started first in fencing and finished second in the ensuing swim, but lightly reversed in her final laser run, which combined shooting and track.
As a former long-distance runner, she took the lead on the first lap and then crossed the finish line first by widening the gap by hitting two or five shots within 10 seconds of four mid-race shots.
Following her individual victory, Shin Su-min took her three crowns by winning a team event with two-year-olds Shin Ji-ho and Kim Ye-na.
Shin Soo-min is the first in the world to win both the 17- and 19-year-old competitions at the same time.
[Shin Su-min / Representative of modern pentathlon youth: I'm happy.
Yes, I want to cherish this moment forever.]
Shin Su-min, who had excelled in long-distance athletics at an early age, converted to the modern pentathlon within a year, and quickly learned unfamiliar sports, such as fencing and shooting, to become the strongest youth in the world. floated up.
(Video editing: Oh Young-taek, CG: Ban So-hee)