# 'Pioneer who won bronze medal' Jaehoon Park "Marathon swimming is attractive"
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Marathon swimming became the first official event in Hangzhou AG… Jaehoon Park, 3rd place in men’s 10km race

"If you try open water swimming once, you will feel a new charm."

Jaehoon Park's (23, Seogwipo City Hall) loud sound. In response to one word, the swimming and diving athletes who participated in the Hangzhou Asian Games responded with applause and cheers. **[카지노사이트](https://www.casinositeking.com)**

Park Jae-hoon, the pioneer of Korean open water swimming (marathon swimming), enjoyed another thrilling moment.

The Korea Swimming Federation held the Asian Games at the Olympic Parktel in Bangi-dong, Songpa-gu, Seoul on the 24th. A reward award ceremony was held.

Along with 22 management and 5 diving people, Park Jae-hoon was also included in the 'reward list'

[Park Jae-hoon](https://www.nn.ru/user.php?user_id=1446647&page=blog&blog_id=3528536) ranked 3rd with 1 hour 56 minutes 00.3 seconds in the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games open water swimming men's 10 km race held at the Chunan Jeshou Sports Center in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China on the 7th.

Open water swimming was first adopted as an official event in the Asian Games in Hangzhou, and Jaehoon Park was recorded as the first Korean medalist.

According to the federation's award regulations, Jaehoon Park received 1 million won.

After receiving the reward, Jae-Hoon Park said in front of his national team colleagues, "Open water swimming is a sport in which you swim in the sea or river without designated lanes.

Unlike swimming, there is a physical fight."

He said, “It has a different charm from management.

If you try open water swimming once, you will feel this new charm.”

Leading athletes in Korean swimming management, such as Hwang Seon-woo and Kim Woo-min (Gangwon Special Self-Governing Provincial Office), who met Jae-hoon Park in the past as 'management players', shouted in support for Jae-hoon Park, who took the stage as an open water swimming medalist. sent.

Jaehoon Park is a pioneer in this sport who has been selected to the national team for five consecutive years since the 2019 [Gwangju World Aquatics Championships](https://www.reddit.com/user/casinositeking47/comments/18jf9v3/tiago_equalizer_daejeon_draws_11_with_suwon_fc/), when Korea first formed the national open water swimming team.

He also received the medal of being the first Korean to be a medalist at the Asian Games.

Park Jae-hoon said, “It is not easy for an open water swimmer to appear as a winner at an ‘all-swimming event.’

“I am happy to enjoy this honor,” he said with great emotion, adding, “I have been involved in this sport since Korea first formed the open water swimming team.

What a happy day.”

He said, “The expression ‘pioneer’ may be an understatement, but it is good to hear,” and added, “There are times when it is difficult, but I have never regretted starting open water swimming.”

Even when things are difficult, he said, “I am even called a pioneer, so I brace myself and say, ‘I have to endure it.’”

Park Jae-hoon started swimming when he was in the third grade of elementary school.

Ahead of the 2019 Gwangju World Championships, he placed second in the 1,500m freestyle national team trials and missed out on the right to participate, taking only first place.

He, whose main sport was long-distance swimming in indoor swimming, soon jumped into the 'sea.

I also felt curious.

The bigger motivation was the '[Taegeuk mark](https://blog.libero.it/wp/casinositewiki/2023/12/17/46-years-old-disabled-sprinter-jeon-min-jae/)',' and the Taeguk mark.

He said, "I am working as a representative."

Even to him, "sea swimming" was unfamiliar.

Park Jae-hoon said, "It is my first time opening “When water swimming, there were quite a few things that were difficult to adapt to, such as bumping into a fish and not being called a foul even when my opponent’s elbow hit me in the eye,” he said.

He also revealed the secrets he has gained over time, saying, "To make up for my weaknesses, I have established my own strategy of avoiding physical fights and riding the current.

Park Jae-hoon's short-term goal is to participate in the 2024 Paris Olympics.

This confidence will also help shorten the management freestyle record.”

He said, “My ultimate goal is to become a competitive athlete in both open water swimming and swimming events.”

Jaehoon Park said, “I gained confidence through open water swimming.

In other countries, open water swimming and 1,500m and 800m freestyle are held in parallel.

There are many athletes who do this.

I have not yet given up my desire for the long-distance freestyle swimming event.

First, I will bet everything on the Doha World Championships.

“I will do it.”

He said, “If I perform the best among Asian athletes at the [Doha World Championships](https://casinositewiki.edublogs.org/2023/12/17/unfortunately-we-lost-the-goalball-game-between-korea-and-china/) next February, I will be confirmed to advance to the Paris Olympics.