"Oh Sang-wook X Kim Woo-jin X Ahn Si-hyun, all Parisian heroes!" Gyeongnam National Sports Festival opens on the 11th

Oct 09, 2024

Oh Sang-wook, coolly 'Click'

(Gwangju=Yonhap News) The Gwangju City team, which will participate in the 105th National Sports Festival, held a ceremony at Bitgoeul Gymnasium in Gwangju on the afternoon of the 4th. Kim Ga-hye (Squash) and Jeon Woong-tae (Modern pentathlon) are taking the oath. 2024.10.4

photo source=Kim Hae-si

The 105th National Sports Festival (National Sports Festival), where all the heroes of the Paris Olympics will participate, will be held in Gimhae and other parts of Gyeongnam from the 11th to the 17th.

A total of 28,153 athletes (19,159 athletes and 8,994 executives) from 17 cities and provinces across the country will play 49 sports at 75 stadiums in 18 cities and counties in the province, including Gimhae Sports Complex, the main stadium.

Kim Woo-jin and Lim Ji-hyun, MVP of the South Korean squad for the 2024 Paris Olympics,

Sports heroes who gave joy and emotion to the people at the Paris Olympics last summer will also participate in the honor of their attempts. The archery competitions of Kim Woo-jin (Cheongju City Hall) and Lim Si-hyun (Hanche University) will be held in Changwon City, while the fencing of Jinju City and Oh Sang-wook (Daejeon City Hall) will be held in Namhae-gun County, and the shooting competition of Kim Ye-ji (Imsil County Office) will be held in Changwon City.

Kim Ye-ji who competed in the 25m pistol

Badminton Ahn Se-young attends an event to encourage the Paris Olympic athletes

Badminton is being played in advance in Miryang City from the 9th to the 11th before the opening. Ahn Se-young (Samsung Life Insurance), a gold medalist in women's singles at the 2024 Paris Olympics, participated as the representative of Busan. In addition, in the Taekwondo event held at Gimhae Gymnasium on the 7th, Kim Yoo-jin (Ulsan City Hall), a gold medalist at the Paris Olympics, won the gold medal with overwhelming performance in the women's 57kg class.

Meanwhile, in the competition for cities and provinces, Gyeonggi Province will try to win the overall championship for the third consecutive time. Gyeonggi Province continued to win the overall championship for 17 consecutive years from 2002 to 2018, and lost the championship cup to Seoul City at the 100th Seoul Games in 2019, and won the second consecutive title from 2022-2023 after 2020-2021 (only the high school division was held), which was suspended due to COVID-19. In addition, Hwang Sun-woo (Gangwon Provincial Government) will challenge the history of MVP for the fourth consecutive time following his first three consecutive MVPs last year. The record for winning the most MVP awards in the National Sports Festival is five times held by Park Tae-hwan (swimming).

The opening ceremony of the National Sports Festival will be held at Gimhae Sports Complex at 5 p.m. on the 11th under the theme of 「From Space to Space, Fireworks of Harmony」, as well as a five-act media art theme performance by the Black Eagles, and performances by invited singers such as Jang Yoon-jung, Hamonize, Kim Da-hyun, Song Jang-jae. The closing ceremony will be held at 5:30 p.m. on the 17th at Gimhae Sports Complex, followed by performances by invited singers such as Park Seo-jin and Eun Ga-eun. After the closing of the National Sports Festival, the 44th National Sports Festival for the Disabled will be held at the same place from the 25th to the 30th.

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