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Hwang Sun-woo

South Korean swimmer (born 2003) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hwang Sun-woo
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Hwang Sun-woo (Korean: 황선우; born 21 May 2003) is a South Korean swimmer.[2] He is the 2024 World Champion in the men's 200m freestyle and won 6 medals in the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games.[3]

In this Korean name, the family name is Hwang.

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On 14 May 2021, he established the new Korean national record of 48.04 in the 100m freestyle and then followed up with a new World Junior Record[4] in the men's 200m freestyle.[citation needed]

In July 2021, he represented South Korea at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan. He was the flagbearer for South Korea together with Kim Yeon-koung.[5] He competed in the 50m freestyle, 100m freestyle, 200m freestyle and 4 × 200m freestyle relay events. In the 50m freestyle heats event, he did not advance to compete in the semifinal.[6] In the remaining freestyle heats events, he completed at rank 1 for 100m and rank 6 for 200m, allowing him to advance to compete in the semifinal.[7][8] In the freestyle semifinal events, he completed at rank 4 for 100m and rank 6 for 200m, allowing him to advance to compete in the final.[9][10] In the freestyle final events, he completed at rank 5 for 100m and rank 6 for 200m.[11][12] In the freestyle relay event, the team did not advance to compete in the final.[13]

At the 2022 World Championships, Hwang won silver medal in the Men's 200-metre freestyle. In the final, on 20 June, he finished 1:44.47

In December 2022, he won gold in the Men's 200 metre freestyle event at the 2022 short course FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) with a time of 1:39.72, beating the previous Championship record that was set by Lithuania’s Danas Rapsys in 2018, as well as setting a new Asian record.[14][15]

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Key: AS = Asian Record; NR = National Record; GR = Asian Games Record; CR = Championship Record, RS= Relay Spilt, MNR= Mare Nostrum Record

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Key: AS = Asian Record; NR = National Record; GR = Asian Games Record; CR = Championship Record

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  • 19th Korea Image Awards (2023) – Korea Image Budding Youth Award[16]

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