Hwang Sun-woo

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In this Korean name, the family name is Hwang.
Hwang Sun-woo
Personal information
Nationality South Korean
Born (2003-05-21) May 21, 2003 (age 21)
Suwon, South Korea
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)[1]
Weight 72 kg (159 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Event(s)
Medal record
Men's swimming
Representing  South Korea
World Championships (LC)
Silver medal – second place 2022 Budapest 200 m freestyle
World Championships (SC)
Gold medal – first place 2021 Abu Dhabi 200 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2022 Melbourne 200 m freestyle
Korean name
Hangul 황선우
Revised Romanization Hwang Seon-u
McCune–Reischauer Hwang Sŏnu

Hwang Sun-woo (Hangul: 황선우; born May 13, 2003) is a South Korean swimmer.[2]

Career

On May 14, 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 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.[3] 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.[4] 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.[5][6] 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.[7][8] In the freestyle final events, he completed at rank 5 for 100m and rank 6 for 200m.[9][10] In the freestyle relay event, the team did not advance to compete in the final.[11]

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.[12][13]

Honours

Other

  • 19th Korea Image Awards (2023) – Korea Image Budding Youth Award[14]

References

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