Ko Seung-hwan wins the men's 200m national championships in 20.49 seconds 3rd place in Korean history

Ko Seung-hwan wins the men's 200m national championships in 20.49 seconds 3rd place in Korean history

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Ko Seung-hwan (26, Gwangju Metropolitan City Hall) rose to the top of the men's 200m division at the National Track and

Field Championships with a personal best and the third-highest record in Korean track and field men's history.

Ko Seung-hwan won the men's 200m final at the 78th National Athletics Championships held at Jeongseon Sports

Complex in Gangwon-do on the 26th with a time of 20.49 seconds.

It is a personal best record that beats the previous record of 20.51 seconds set in June 2022 by 0.02 seconds.

At the same time, Ko Seung-hwan rose from a tie for third place in the all-time Korean men's 200m race to third place.

The Korean record for the men's 200m is 20.40 seconds, set by Park Tae-geon in June 2018.

Jae-geun Jang, head of the Jincheon Athletes' Village, holds the second-highest all-time record in Korea with 20.41

seconds written in September 1985.

Before this day, Ko Seung-hwan was tied for third place with Kim Guk-young (Gwangju Metropolitan City Hall) with a

personal best of 20.51 seconds, but he broke his personal record with 20.49 seconds and rose to Korea's sole third place.

After the race, Ko Seung-hwan said through the Korea Athletics Federation, "Thanks to the support and consolation of

those around me, I recovered from my injury and broke my personal record in two years. My goal is to become the first

Korean to break the 19 second record in the men's 온라인카지노 200m."

Ko Seung-hwan was caught praying before the game, and explained, "I'm not religious, but I always pray with my hands

together before the game starts so that I can finish the game without injury."

In the finals on this day, Minho Jang (Kookmin University Lifelong Education Center) took second place with 21.02

seconds, and Seungwoo Oh (Seoul City Hall) took third place with 21.12 seconds.

Namadi Joel Jin (Gimpo Science and Technology High School), a third-year high school student who competed with

seniors from the business team, took fourth place with a time of 21.15 seconds.

 

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