‘CHALLENGING TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PARIS OLYMPICS’ MARATHON SWIMMING TEAM SETTLES IN DOHA, THE DESICIVE BATTLE SITE

The Korean open water swimming team entered Doha, Qatar, the battle site, on the 31st to challenge for their first-ever Olympic qualification at the 2024 World Aquatics Championships. The Korea Swimming Federation said on this day, “Four athletes, Park Jae-hoon (Seogwipo City Hall) and Oh Se-beom (Army Military Athletic Corps) in the men’s division, and Lee Hae-rim (Gyeongbuk Provincial Office) and Park Jeong-ju (Anyang City Hall) in the women’s division, left for Doha with two coaches (Kim In-gyun and Shin Dong-ho) and arrived safely. “I did it,” he said. The 2024 World Aquatics Championships will open on February 2 and run until the 18th.Open water swimming will take place at Old Doha Port from February 3 to 8 with five gold medals up for grabs.

Korean swimming hopes to secure its first-ever Olympic qualification in open water swimming. Open water swimming became an official Olympic sport at the 2008 Beijing Games, but no Korean athlete has yet made it to the Olympics .If you place in the top 13, excluding athletes who have already qualified for the Paris Olympics, in the men’s and women’s individual 10 km at the Doha World Championships, or if you rank first among Asian athletes, you will be eligible to participate in the Paris Olympics. Park Jae-hoon, who took third place in the 10km men’s open water swimming race at the Hangzhou Asian Games last fall and became the first Korean Asian Games medalist in this event, is considered ‘an athlete who will challenge for qualification to the Olympics.’Jaehoon Park said, “Based on my experience participating in the World Aquatics Championships several times since 2019, I was able to achieve good results at the Asian Games,” and added, “I look 온라인카지노 forward to meaningful results in Doha as well.”