This is the power of Taekwon's suzerain state
Lee Da-bin (27, Seoul Metropolitan Government), the star of Korean women's taekwondo, has won a bronze medal in the women's 67kg excess class at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Lee Da-bin won the bronze medal by beating Lorena Brandl of Germany with a round score of 2-1 (4-2 5-9 13-2) in the third place match of the women's 67kg excess class at Grand Palais in Paris, France, early on the 11th (Korean time). As a result, Lee Da-bin, a silver medalist at the Tokyo Olympics, has won two consecutive Olympic medals. Among Korean taekwondo athletes, only Hwang Kyung-sun (2 gold medals), Cha Dong-min (1 gold medal), and Lee Dae-hoon (1 silver medal) have won more than two medals. The bronze medal of Lee Da-bin, the last runner of the national team, is also the third medal that Korean taekwondo has won at the event. Park Tae-joon (Kyung Hee-dae) in the men's 58kg class on the 8th and Kim Yu-jin (Ulsan Sports Council) in the women's 57kg class on the 9th won gold medals.
Korea's two golds and one bronze medals in this competition are enough to restore Korean taekwondo's status. Korea's taekwondo felt the world's taekwondo levelling up at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in 2021. At the time, Korea won one silver and two bronze medals, but failed to win gold. It was the first time since taekwondo was adopted as an official Olympic sport that Korea failed to win a gold medal.
In fact, the prospects for Korean taekwondo were not very bright. Korea has dispatched only four athletes to the Olympics. Park Tae-joon of the men's 58 kg class, Seo Geon-woo of the men's 80 kg class, and Lee Da-bin of the women's 67 kg class have secured tickets to Paris in the World Taekwondo Federation (WT) Olympic rankings, while Kim Yu-jin of the women's 57 kg class got the last train after going through the Asian qualifying round for the Paris Olympics. It is the first time since the 2012 London Olympics that Korean taekwondo has sent fewer than four athletes to the Olympics.
However, his performance was remarkable. In the 58kg class, the lightest in men's, Park Tae-joon won the gold medal by sweeping the ranks, defeating world No. 1 Hamed Khalil Zendubi of Tunisia. Korea succeeded in winning the relevant weight class at the 2012 London Olympics (Lee Dae-hoon and silver medal), the 2016 Rio Olympics (Kim Tae-hoon and bronze medal), and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics (Jang Joon and bronze medals), but never won the gold medal. Park's gold medal is a new history for Korea.
The next day was Kim Yoo-jin. Kim was only ranked 24th in the world. However, she caused a stir by defeating all of the world's No. 1, 2, 4, and 5 teams. All of the players failed to overcome Kim's long reach and accurate hitting, and the team collapsed. Kim said, "I prepared by kicking tens of thousands of times a day. World rankings are different from skills," and made her boast a reality.
Lee Da-bin also won the bronze medal, though unfortunately lost in the semifinals, and Seo Kun-woo also advanced to the semifinals, albeit without a medal. In addition, the men's 80kg class has traditionally been considered Korea's vulnerable weight class. Seo is the first Korean athlete to represent the men's 80kg class. Still, it is no exaggeration to say that the mini-squad of four Korean taekwondo fighters played a role of one hundred percent, given that all four of them made it to the semifinals.
Lee Chang-gun, head coach of the Korean national taekwondo team, said, "We have regained some of our status as a 'jongju country' through the 2024 Paris Olympics, but we still need to work harder." Coach Lee confessed, "It was psychologically difficult because our performance was poor during the Tokyo Olympics. I didn't sleep well, and thank the players for their performance this time." "The players must have been under a lot of psychological pressure, but Park Tae-joon did a good job on the first step."
BY: 토토사이트 추천
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