'World's 24th Unexpected Drama'Kim Yu-jin's 女 Taekwondo 57kg class Friday for the first time in 16 years!13 gold medals are the most ever in Korea
Aug 09, 2024
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Kim Yu-jin (24, Ulsan Metropolitan City Sports Council, world No. 24) won the gold medal at 4:37 a.m. on the 9th (Korea time) in the women's 57kg taekwondo final at the Paris Olympics held in Grand Palais, Paris, France, with a round score of 2-0 (5-1, 8-0) against Nahid Kiyanichande (Iran). It is the first medal in 16 years since Lim Soo-jung at the 2008 Beijing Games.
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It was a dead end. In 34 seconds of the second round, he succeeded in hitting his head and won three points. With 34 seconds left, he won two points with a torso attack and scored one point with an opponent's deduction, quickly running away 6-0. The wave of attacks continued. He won 9-0 by winning two more points with a torso attack and one more point with a deduction. The world's No. 2 opponent has never kicked properly. With an absolute and overwhelming attack, he immediately won the gold medal.
Kim Yu-jin wrote a drama with a big twist. The Paris challenge was the latest, but the gold medal was the fastest. Unlike Park Tae-joon (Kyung Hee University, No. 5), Seo Kun-woo (Korea National University), and Lee Da-bin (Seoul City Hall, No. 4), who are ranked within 5th in the WT rankings, they were decided to go to Paris with 'Quota by Continent'. The Korea Taekwondo Association decided to challenge the women's 57kg Olympic ticket through a meeting in January, and Kim Yu-jin's participation in the Asian selection match was decided through an internal selection match in February. Kim Yu-jin beat Juli Mom of Cambodia in the semifinals of the Asian Trials held in Thailand, China, in March to win the ticket to Paris, which is given to the top two in each weight class. Kim Yu-jin's name was not even mentioned in the five medal candidates selected by the Paris Olympics 'MyInfo' website. But the ranking was just a number. Kim Yoo-jin, whose best performance was third place in the 2023 Loma Grand Prix, wrote a gold medal drama at her first Olympics. "I trained so hard that I wanted to quit. I won with confidence, just as he said in the final race, "Now I only think that I'll trust myself and go." This event was originally the pride of Korean women's taekwondo. Jeong Jae-eun won three consecutive gold medals at the 2000 Sydney Games, when taekwondo became the first official event, Jang Ji-won at the 2004 Athens Games, and Lim Soo-jung at the 2008 Beijing Games, but it has been quiet since then. In Grand Palais, Paris, the land of promise 'Proud of the Fatherland'Kim Yu-jin came to the gold medal where the sky fell for the first time in 16 years with a gold kick. The medal is South Korea's 13th gold medal at the Paris Olympics. After 13 gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and 2012 London Olympics, he tied for the most gold medals in 12 years. Kim Yoo-jin of fighting spirit did it.
Paris = Reporter Jeon Young-ji sky4us@sportschosun.com
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