From 35-year-old Kim Ja-in to 16-year-old Song Yun-chan
From 35-year-old Kim Ja-in to 16-year-old Song Yun-chan… Sports climbing challenge to Paris
Seo Chae-hyun and Cheon Jong-won, two Olympic qualifiers in Shanghai from May 16 to 19 and Budapest from June 20 to 23, aim to participate in the Olympics for the second consecutive time.
The final challenge of Korean male and female athletes to qualify for the 2024 Paris Olympics sports climbing (combined and speed) is unfolding.
The stage is the Paris Olympic qualifying series. 카지노사이트
The Korean men’s and women’s sport climbing teams will depart for the country on the 13th to participate in the first round of the Paris Olympic qualifying series to be held in Shanghai, China from the 16th to the 19th and begin preparations for the competition in earnest.
The second round of the Olympic qualifiers will be held in Budapest, Hungary from June 20 to 23.
Sports climbing at the Paris Olympics will be held in two events: combined (bouldering + lead) and speed.
Sport climbing, organized by the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC), is an international competition held in three categories: bouldering, lead, and speed.
Bouldering is a sport that requires players to pass through various artificial structures installed on a 4.5m high rock wall within 4 minutes without ropes, while lead is a sport in which players climb as high as possible within 6 minutes by holding on to an artificial structure (protrusion) installed on a 15m high rock wall.
Speed is a competition to see who can climb faster up an artificial rock wall that is 15 meters high and slopes 95 degrees.
Sport climbing, which was introduced to the Olympics for the first time at the 2020 Tokyo Games, had one athlete compete in bouldering, lead, and speed to determine the winner of the gold medal (one for men and one for women).
At the Tokyo Games, Cheon Jong-won and Seo Chae-hyun participated in the men’s event, but did not make it to the medals.
Starting with the Paris Olympics, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) subdivided the events into two events: combined (bouldering + lead) and speed, and increased the number of gold medals to four (two for men and two for women).
A total of 68 athletes (34 men, 34 women) will participate in the Paris Olympic sports climbing (combined, speed).
By event, 40 athletes (20 men, 20 women) will participate in the combine event and 28 participants (14 men, 14 women) will participate in the speed event.
Participation tickets have been distributed through the world championships and continental championships since last year, but unfortunately, Korean athletes were unable to secure participation through the previous two competitions.
Accordingly, the Korean national team is seeking its last chance to win a ticket to Paris through two Olympic qualifying series.
The scores from the two Olympic qualifying series are added together to give out 20 combine tickets (10 for men and 10 for women) and 10 speed tickets (5 for men and 5 for women).
There are a total of 12 Taegeuk warriors (5 men and 7 women) seeking tickets to Paris.
The oldest member of the national team participating in this Olympic qualifying series is Kim Ja-in, the 35-year-old ‘rock queen’, and the youngest is 16-year-old ‘high school student’ Song Yun-chan.
As the age difference between the two is as much as 19 years, the national team is determined to secure as many Olympic tickets as possible by promoting ‘harmony between old and new.’
The maximum number of tickets each country can win in the sport climbing event at the Paris Olympics is a total of 8, including 4 combined tickets (2 men, 2 women) and 4 speed tickets (2 men, 2 women).
In the combined event, Cheon Jong-won, Lee Do-hyun, Song Yun-chan (male), Kim Ja-in, Sasol, Seo Chae-hyeon, and Seo Ye-ju (women) took on the challenge.
Cheon Jong-won and Seo Chae-hyun, who competed in the 2020 Tokyo Games, are aiming for their second consecutive Olympic appearance.
Speed, which became a stand-alone event for the first time at the Paris Olympics, will feature Shin Eun-cheol, Jeong Yong-jun (male), Jeong Ji-min, Seong Han-areum, and Noh Hee-ju (female).
In speed, Ji-min Jeong, who won the bronze medal in the women’s speed event at the 2nd round of the 2024 IFSC World Cup held last month, stands out as the first Korean athlete to stand on the podium in the World Cup speed event.
