At the awards ceremony for the men’s 400m freestyle final at the 2024 Paris Olympics held at the La Defense Arena in Paris, France on the 27th (local time), South Korea’s Kim Woo-min, who won the bronze medal, takes a selfie with gold medalist Lucas Martens and silver medalist Samuel Short.

Kim Woo-min (23) has won an Olympic medal for the first time in 12 years as a Korean swimmer.

Kim Woo-min won a bronze medal with a time of 3:42.50 in the men’s 400m freestyle final at the La Defense Arena in Paris, France on the 28th. Germany’s Lucas Martens (23) won the gold medal with a time of 3:41.78, and Australia’s Elijah Winnington (24) won the silver medal with a time of 3:42.21. Kim Woo

-min is the second Korean swimmer to win an Olympic medal, following Park Tae-hwan (35, retired), who won one gold and three silver medals. It has been 12 years since the last Olympic medal in swimming at the 2012 London Games (Park Tae-hwan, two silver medals).

Kim Woo-min suffered the bitterness of being eliminated in the preliminaries at the 800m freestyle relay at the Tokyo Games three years ago. However, ahead of this Paris Games, Kim Woo-min’s status has changed 180 degrees. Kim Woo-min won the 400m freestyle at the Doha World Aquatics Championships this year, following the Hangzhou Asian Games last year, and was expected to be a strong medal candidate at this Olympics. Kim Woo-min, who has grown into a world-class athlete by going to Australia for training once a year since 2022, has also been to Australia three times this year to pickle himself, making a bet on an ‘Olympic medal’.

Kim Woo-min won the finals ticket for the top eight swimmers with a time of 3 minutes 45.52 seconds in the preliminary round held on the same morning. This is Kim Woo-min’s first Olympic finals. Although he stood on the edge of lane 1, Kim Woo-min played the role of a scene-stealer throughout the 400m finals. He competed with Martens, who was first in the preliminary round and was in lane 4, for first place.

Kim Woo-min, who won an Olympic medal in his first event, is challenging for the multi-medal collection that only Park Tae-hwan has achieved among Korean swimmers. Kim Woo-min will compete in the men’s 200m freestyle on the 28th and the men’s 800m relay on the 30th. 토토사이트