‘World Championships Mixed 3m Bronze’ Kim Su-ji and Lee Jae-kyung
Suji Kim won the bronze medal in the individual 3m event, which is an official Olympic event, and Jaekyung Lee also won a bronze medal in the mixed synchro event, and Jaekyung Lee also confirmed for the Paris Olympics in the men’s 3m individual event.
Although they did not have much time to train for the mixed synchro 3m springboard event, Kim Su-ji (25, Ulsan Metropolitan City Hall) and Lee Jae-kyung (24, Incheon Metropolitan City Hall), who started diving in the same place around the same time, prepared ‘intensively’ for the postponement of the World Championships. did. 먹튀검증
The result was a shiny bronze medal.
Kim Su-ji and Lee Jae-kyung took third place with a total of 285.03 points from the first to fifth periods in the diving mixed synchro 3m springboard final at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships held at the Hamad Aquatic Center in Doha, Qatar, on the 10th.
The two became the first Korean athletes to reach the podium in synchro diving at the World Championships.
After the game, Kim Soo-ji and Lee Jae-kyung confessed through All That Sports, “I didn’t have much time to train for mixed synchro 3m because I was more concerned about the 3m springboard, which is an official Olympic event,” but added, “We have been training together since we were young, so we spent a lot of time training.
“We were able to work together faster than before,” he said.
Suji Kim and Jaekyung Lee started diving at Guyeong Elementary School in Ulsan.
The two are also seniors and juniors at Ulsan Heavy High School.
Suji Kim said, “Thanks to the time I spent with Jaekyung, I got good results today.”
Lee Jae-kyung also expressed her joy, saying, “I consulted with Suzy and created a program with acting that both of us could do well in.
I’m really happy.
I feel like I’m going to soar.”
China, the strongest country, did not participate in the mixed synchro 3m springboard, which is not an official Olympic event.
However, countries other than China have teams made up of top players.
Kim Su-ji and Lee Jae-kyung, who competed at the top throughout the game, made a mistake in the fifth and final period, but Grace Reed and Ross Haslam (Great Britain), who were competing for the rankings, made an even bigger mistake, allowing Kim Su-ji and Lee Jae-kyung to remain in third place.
The British team’s total score was 278.28 points, 6.75 points lower than Korea’s.
Su-ji Kim and Jae-kyung Lee scored 300.93 points, leaving a gap behind Madison Kinney and Domonic Bedgood (Australia), who won the gold medal, but only 2.46 points behind second-place Chiara Pelacani and Matteo Santoro (Italy) with 287.49 points.
Lee Jae-kyung was momentarily disappointed, saying, “If I had done better, I could have won a silver medal,” but was relieved, saying, “Still, I’m glad I got a medal.”
Suji Kim and Jaekyung Lee placed 4th in this event at the Fukuoka Games last year.
The two encouraged each other by saying, “Let’s just go up one step,” and as they set their goal, they went up one step and won a valuable World Championships medal.
Suji Kim achieved the feat of winning two bronze medals in the women’s diving 3m springboard and the mixed synchro 3m springboard on the 10th Korean time.
Local time, she won one medal each on the 9th and 10th.
Kim Su-ji, who placed third in the women’s 1m springboard in Gwangju in 2019 and became the first Korean diving world championship medalist, also won the second and third medals in Korean diving history.
She also stood shoulder to shoulder with Korean swimming legend Park Tae-hwan.
Tae-Hwan Park, who was a competitive athlete, ranked first in the 400m freestyle and third in the 200m at the 2007 Melbourne Games, and won the gold medal in the 400m freestyle in Shanghai in 2011.
Kim Su-ji, along with Park Tae-hwan, became the ‘Korean World Aquatics Championships medalist with the most medals.’
There are only two Korean swimmers, Tae-hwan Park and Su-ji Kim, who have won more than two medals in a ‘single competition’.
Kim Su-ji smiled and said, “I am happy that I won a medal two days in a row (local time).
However, it is a little difficult physically.”
Su-ji Kim, who won two medals in Doha despite suffering a torn cartilage in her left knee last December, said, “It was a time of many injuries and a lot of hardships,” and looking back on her training period, she said, “It’s really good to get a good result.” said.
Kim Su-ji and Lee Jae-kyung won tickets to Paris in the 3m springboard individual event, an official Olympic event.
Kim Su-ji will participate in the Olympics for the third time following London in 2012 and Tokyo in 2021, and Jae-kyung Lee will participate in the Olympics for the first time.
Kim Su-ji pledged, “There are many shortcomings in the entrance movement.
I will improve until the Paris Olympics (opening in July).”
Lee Jae-kyung also revealed plans to raise her individual event scores, saying, “I will increase the level of acting difficulty and focus on strength training to achieve good results at the Olympics.”
But first, they both need a break. 카지노사이트
Kim Su-ji complained of “pleasant fatigue,” saying, “I want to sleep well when I return to Korea.”
Lee Jae-kyung, who is married to former diver Kang Yoo-na and has a daughter, said, “I plan to spend time with her wife and daughter, and then start training again.”
