The Korean swimming team continues to break Korean records at the Short Course World Swimming Championships. Unlike long course (50m) competitions such as the Olympics, short course competitions are not held in Korea, and there are not many opportunities to participate in international competitions.
The Korean national team won the 2022 International Swimming Federation (FINA) Short Course World Swimming Championships women’s medley relay 200m preliminaries held at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatics Center on the 17th. 29, North Gyeongsang Provincial Office) and Heo Yeon-gyeong (18, Bangsan High School) set a new Korean record of 1 minute 48 seconds 24.
Although they placed 9th out of 14 countries and could not make it to the finals, they shortened the previous Korean record (1:50:17) set by Kim Ji-hyeon, Kim Go-eun, Park Jin-young, and Hwang Seo-jin at the 4th Incheon Indoor and Martial Arts Asian Games in 2013 by 1 second and 93 seconds. did. Kim San-ha, who was the first swimmer on the day, set a new Korean record in the short course women’s 50m backstroke with a time of 26.67 seconds. 토토사이트
She broke the short course Korean record four times in the international competition where she competed for the first time in her life, Sanha Kim. Previously, Sanha Kim set her new Korean records in the women’s 100m (58.02) and 50m (26.70) women’s backstroke at this event.
The men’s national team is also contributing to breaking records. Yang Jae-hoon (25, Gangwon Provincial Office) recorded 51 seconds 36 in the men’s 100m butterfly preliminaries, 0.2 seconds earlier than the previous Korean record (51 seconds 56).
Following the men’s 50m freestyle event, Yang Jae-hoon set a new Korean record consecutively in the preliminary round and final in the men’s 800m relay race on the 16th. It was the 4th Korean record for Yang Jae-hoon and the 9th Korean national record in this competition.