2024 KOREAN OLYMPIC TRIALS
The 2024 Korean Olympic Trials kicked off at this time from Gimcheon and already we noticed three swimmers qualify for the Paris Olympic Video games to start the competitors with a bang.
Racing within the finals of the lads’s 1500m free, Kim Woomin fired off a time of 14:58.03 to take the gold.
22-year-old Woomin represented the only swimmer to dip underneath the 15:00 barrier as he beat the sector by over 20 seconds. Within the course of, the ace additionally cleared the World Aquatics Olympic Qualification Time of 15:00.99 wanted so as to add his title to the nation’s roster for the Paris Olympics.
Moreover, Kim’s time established a brand new private greatest, undercutting the 15:01.07 he produced for silver finally yr’s Asian Video games. There in Hangzhou, Kim topped the rostrum in each the 400m and 800m freestyle races. He’ll contest these distances and the 200m later at these Trials.
Kim’s Olympic qualification comes on the heels of taking the World Championships title within the 400m free final month. In Doha, he busted out a gold medal-worthy results of 3:42.71 to grow to be the primary Korean 400m free world champion since Park Taehwan on the 2011 World Championships in Shanghai.
Moreover in Doha, Kim was a essential member of the lads’s 4x200m free relay which went all the way down to the wire in a heated battle with China. Kim break up 1:44.93 to assist Korea clock a collective time of seven:01.94 to come back inside .10 of their Asian rivals.
Kim not too long ago returned to Korea after coaching on the College of the Sunshine Coast in Australia. Tonight’s outing renders him simply exterior the listing of prime 10 performers on the planet this season.
Additionally making the grade for Paris was Kim Minseop as he powered his method to the highest seed within the males’s 200m butterfly heats.
Kim stopped the clock in a time of 1:55.45 to land lane 4 practically 5 seconds forward of the pack. His outing checked in as a brand new Korean nationwide document, overtaking his personal earlier benchmark of 1:55.95 placed on the books in November 2022.
Kim’s end result dipped underneath the World Aquatics Olympic Qualification Time of 1:55.78 so as to add his title to the nation’s roster for Paris. Splits are usually not accessible presently.
As a bonus, Kim earned 1 million received (~$745 USD) for setting a brand new Korean document. His efficiency at this time ranks him twelfth on the planet on the season.
One other notable swim got here within the girls’s 200m again heats the place 17-year-old Lee Eunji produced a top-seeded effort of two:09.88.
Her outing already cleared the World Aquatics Olympic Qualification Time of two:10.39 en path to taking the #1 spot for tomorrow’s closing.
Lee’s end result got here inside putting distance of the two:09.49 Korean nationwide document Im Da-sol logged in 2019.
The teenager is coming off a profitable Asian Video games the place she collected bronze within the girls’s 100m again with a nationwide record-tying 1:00.03 and bronze within the 200m again in 2:09.75. She additionally helped the nation safe 3 relay medals.
