400m Freestyle, The Largest Competition Venue in Doha

400m Freestyle, The Largest Competition Venue in Doha... Kim Woo-min, Burning Before

Kim Woo-min: “If I stick with a strong player and get better results, I will get an Olympic medal.”

Many world-class athletes will not participate in the management event at the 2024 International Aquatics Federation Qatar Doha World Championships, which will begin its schedule on the 11th.

With only five months left until the Paris Olympics, many top athletes did not enter the competition list for reasons such as conditioning.

In the 200m freestyle, Hwang Sun-woo's (20, Gangwon Special Provincial Office) main event, David Popovic (Romania), the gold medalist at the 2022 Budapest Games, and Matthew Richards and Tom Dean (both Great Britain), who swept the gold and silver medals at the 2023 Fukuoka Games, will not participate. 온라인카지노사이트

Thanks to this, it is said that Hwang Sun-woo's chances of winning gold at his first long course (50m) World Championships are greater than ever.

However, the men's 400m freestyle, in which Kim Woo-min (22, Gangwon Special Provincial Office) is competing, is a different story.

A large number of strong athletes are participating, to the extent that overseas swimming media outlets describe it as ‘the biggest competition venue for the Doha World Championships.’

Kim Woo-min, who returned to Korea through Incheon International Airport on the 3rd after completing training in Australia, said, "Almost all of the athletes in this competition are competing in the 400m freestyle, but if they perform better on such a big stage, a medal at the Paris Olympics will follow."

“It is,” he said confidently.

Only gold medalist Samuel Short (Australia), who ranked 1st to 4th at last year's Fukuoka Games, will not participate in the men's 400m freestyle at the Doha World Championships.

Ahmed Hafnaoui (Tunisia), gold medalist in this event at the Tokyo Olympics, Lucas Martens (Germany), 3rd place in the Fukuoka Games, and Guilhermi Costa (Brazil), 4th place, will compete with Kim Woo-min.

Kim Woo-min, who was 5th in the Fukuoka competition, also ranked 5th with an entry time of 3 minutes and 43.92 seconds in this competition.

For Kim Woo-min's goal of reaching the 'Olympic podium', a time of 3 minutes and 42 seconds is essential.

Kim Woo-min said, "This competition was aimed at breaking my personal record.

Since it is a competition aimed at the Olympics, I am not in perfect physical condition, but if I still break my personal record, I will have a better record at the Paris Olympics."

The important thing is that the Doha World Championships are a stepping stone toward the Paris Olympics.

The process of reaching the goal of ‘3 minutes and 42 seconds’ may be more important than the color of the medal.

Kim Woo-min also said, "The ultimate goal is the Olympics.

I think the World Championships is an order that must be taken step by step before going to the Olympics.

If I get good results and a medal record there, I can compete well with good confidence at the Paris Olympics."

Kim Woo-min, a Korean mid- and long-distance swimmer whose strength is strong from the beginning, became stronger during the four-week training camp in Australia.

Even Kim Woo-min, who rarely talks about how hard it is to train, went so far as to say, "In general, I had a lot of exercise.

Thanks to this, my endurance also improved, so I'm satisfied."

This time, expectations are even higher as I also do strength training, which I don't normally do.

Kim Woo-min said, "I did strength training this time, and I feel like I gained strength while swimming.

I achieved good training results."

Another achievement was the difficult training in an outdoor pool that is difficult to access in Korea.

Kim Woo-min said, "Training in an outdoor swimming pool under the influence of sunlight and wind was stressful.

That experience will be helpful in the indoor swimming pool."

Kim Woo-min, who leaves for Doha, Qatar with the management team on the 7th, will compete in the men's 400m freestyle preliminary round on the afternoon of the 11th Korean time, and compete in the finals on the morning of the 12th.​