[National Sports Festival] High jump Woo Sang-hyuk achieves his 8th victory with 2m 32… Korean God is a failure
I tried 2m37 twice but couldn't get over it… “I gained a lot of experience the year before the Olympics.”
‘Smile Jumper’ Woo Sang-hyuk (Yongin City Hall) won his 8th gold medal in his career at the National Sports Festival.
Woo Sang-hyuk won the high jump final in the men's general division at the 104th Jeonnam National Sports Festival held at Mokpo Stadium in Jeollanam-do on the 18th, exceeding 2m32.
Second place was Park Soon-ho (Yeongju City Hall), who surpassed 2m15.
Woo Sang-hyuk won his 8th gold medal in his career, following competitions in 2013 and 2014 when he was attending Chungnam High School, and in 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019, and 2022 after joining the professional team. 바카라사이트
He also won his fourth consecutive title in the men's high jump event.
Due to the aftermath of the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19), the National Sports Festival was not held in 2020, and only high school games were held in 2021.
Woo Sang-hyuk, who left Seocheon County Office and joined Yongin City Hall in January of this year, won his first national sports championship as a representative of Gyeonggi Province.
Sanghyuk Woo started the competition at 2m15.
Woo Sang-hyuk, who had a calm expression after clearing 2m15 in the first period, clapped his hands and briefly cheered after crossing 2m21 in the first period as well.
Since Park Sun-ho failed to jump 2m 21, Woo Sang-hyuk was confirmed to win here.
Afterwards, the fight against oneself to set a new Korean record (2m 37) began.
Woo Sang-hyuk encouraged applause and made the audience his allies in this lonely fight.
Woo Sang-hyuk, who failed to overcome 2m 27 in the first period, immediately challenged 2m 32, cleared it cleanly, and roared as he ran around.
However, he could not overcome the next challenge of 2m37.
In his first attempt, his foot caught on the bar, and in his second attempt, he was lacking height due to timing his jump.
Sanghyuk Woo stopped the challenge, and his winning record remained at 2m32.
With this, Woo Sang-hyuk finished the 2023 season.
Sanghyuk Woo started the season by taking second place with a record of 2m 24 at the Asian Indoor Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan in February.
In May, he cleared 2m27 at the World Athletics (WA) Diamond League in Doha, Qatar.
He took second place after Juvon Harrison (USA), who jumped 2m32.
Then, in the same month, at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games national team selection event held in Yecheon, Gyeongsangbuk-do, he secured first place with 2m 16, and then challenged the standard record of 2m 32 at the 2023 Budapest World Championships, succeeding in the first time.
Woo Sang-hyuk's jump gained strength as the Hangzhou Asian Games approached.
Woo Sang-hyuk, who finished second with 2m 30 in the Florence Diamond League in Italy on June 2, raised the bar even higher by exceeding 2m 33 at the National Athletics Championships held in Jeongseon, Gangwon-do on the 25th of the same month.
At the Budapest World Championships in August, he finished 6th with 2m 29, but in September he ranked 3rd with 2m 31 in the Zurich Diamond League, becoming the first Korean player to win a ticket to the Diamond League Finals.
At the Diamond League Final held in Eugene, Oregon, USA on September 17, he won the championship by successfully clearing 2m35 in the third period.
It was also a historic victory for the first time by a Korean.
Woo Sang-hyuk, who has been constantly soaring, won the silver medal for the second time in a row after a close battle with his ‘rival and friend’ Mutaz Essa Barsim (Qatar) at the Hangzhou Asian Games that closed this month.
Woo Sang-hyuk exceeded 2m33, and Barsim recorded 2m35, 2cm higher than that, winning his third Asian Games gold medal.
Woo Sang-hyuk, who finished the season with a spectacular leap forward in front of the domestic fans in Mokpo, is preparing for the 2024 Paris Olympics, which is already 9 months away.
When Woo Sang-hyuk won the Diamond League Final, he passed the Paris Olympic standard record (2m 33) and virtually secured a spot in the finals.
Woo Sang-hyuk said after the game, “It is important to gain practice experience, and I think I accumulated it very well the year before the Paris Olympics.
It was a good year.”
