2025 KOREAN SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS
Day 4 of the 2025 Korean Swimming Championships unfolded from Gimcheon with one other identify added to the nation’s roster for this summer time’s World Championships.
Kim Seung-won, simply 15 years of age, clocked a time of 1:00.28 to take the ladies’s 100m backstroke.
That represented a brand new lifetime finest for the teenager, dipping below the World Aquatics ‘A’ normal of 1:00.46 wanted for Singapore within the course of.
Kim’s outing now renders her Korea’s Third-fastest performer of all time, sitting solely behind nationwide file holder Lee Eun-ji and Im Dasol who personal respective faster marks of 1:00.03 and 1:00.16.
As for Kim, given her younger age, she nonetheless has loads of time to chase a sub-1:00 100m backstroke efficiency, one which might make her the first-ever Korean feminine to perform the feat.
Already certified for the World Championships within the males’s 200m again, nationwide file holder Lee Ju-ho doubled up with the 100m again occasion as effectively.
Lee registered a results of 53.49 to comfortably clear the ‘A’ minimize of 53.94
Lee owns the nationwide file, courtesy of the 53.32 notched in 2022, so the 30-year-old was simply .17 off that lifetime finest to seize the gold.
Of be aware, the boys’s 200m free prelims occurred right now with Olympic finalist and world champion Hwang Sunwoo within the water.
After lacking the qualification normal within the 100m free final evening, Hwang touched in 1:48.02 to guide a trio of sub-1:50 swimmers out of the heats.
Becoming a member of him was Lee Ho-jun who nabbed the 2nd seed in 1:48.84 and Kim Junwoo was subsequent in 1:49.63 to place his hat within the ring for tomorrow’s primary occasion.
South Korean World Championships Qualifiers Via Day 4
Lee Eun-ji – ladies’s 200m again
Lee Ju-ho – males’s 200m again, 100m again
Choi Dongyeol – males’s 100m breast
Kim Youngbeom – males’s 100m free
Kim Seung-wen – ladies’s 100m again
