"Kim Woo-min's Achievement Award X Yeo-jeong's Fighting Spirit Award" Korean Sports Council held an event on the 13th to encourage the athletes of the Paris Olympics and to thank the sponsors

Sep 09, 2024

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The Korean Sports Council will hold an event called 「Thank you, Team Korea」 to encourage outstanding athletes and sponsors of the Paris Olympics.

The Korean Olympic Committee will hold an event to encourage and appreciate outstanding athletes, support groups, and sponsors of the Paris Olympics at 2 p.m. on the 13th at Olympic Parktel Olympia Hall in Songpa-gu, Seoul. The event, which will be held with executives such as Lee Ki-heung, chairman of the Korea Sports Promotion Foundation, Cho Hyun-jae, head of the National Sports Promotion Foundation, and Jeong Kang-sun, head of the Paris Olympic Games (Chairman of the Jeonbuk Sports Association), and officials from the Paris Olympic Team, member sports organizations, and municipal and provincial sports associations, will be held in the order of presentation of merit plaques to the head of the team, vice-captain, support, and vice-captain after the screening of the video of the Paris Olympics.

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Triple winner of Paris, Kim Woo-jin and Lim Si-hyun

Kim Woo-jin and Lim Si-hyun, who were selected as the male and female MVP in the press corps vote, will be awarded the best player award. Kim Woo-jin recorded five Olympic medals and the most gold medals ever, along with three consecutive men's team titles at the Paris Olympics, while Lim Si-hyun of archery won three gold medals and achieved 10 consecutive women's team titles.

Kim Woo-min's smile

In the 400-meter swimming, men's 400-meter freestyle, Kim Woo-min, who has recovered a valuable medal in 12 years since Park Tae-hwan, receives the 'King Woman' award`.

Yeo-jeong returning home from cast

Despite a dislocated right shoulder during training just before the game, Yeo Seo-jung, who ranked 7th with only mental strength, will be given a fighting spirit award, and Lee Won-ho, who narrowly missed the medal by ranking 4th in the men's air pistol 10m, will be given a challenge award.

Korean women's table tennis team bronze medal in 16 years

Seong Seung-min, the first Asian woman to win a modern pentathlon medal

After Shin Yu-bin's first multi-medal in 32 years and Shin Yu-bin, Jeon Ji-hee, and Lee Eun-hye's first bronze medal in women's table tennis team events in 16 years, Oh Kwang-heon, the coach of the women's table tennis team, who was praised by the players as the `best coach,' will receive the Outstanding Leader award. In addition, Jeon Eun-hee, a modern pentathlon coach who led Sung Seung-min's bronze medal in the women's modern pentathlon and Asia's first medal, will also be honored with the Excellence Leader Award.

Reporter Jeon Young-ji sky4us@sportschosun.com

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