Woo Sang-hyuk (28, Yongin City Hall) will play his first outdoor game in Korea this season.
The Korean Association of Athletics Federations will hold the final competition for the 2025 Gumi Asian Athletics Championships at Gumi Civic Stadium in North Gyeongsang Province from the 21st to the 23rd.
The men's high jump event, in which Woo Sang-hyuk will compete, will begin at 11 a.m. on the second day of the competition.
This year, Woo Sang-hyuk won his first jump of the season at the Hustopecce Indoor Competition in the Czech Republic on February 9 with a 2m31, and on the 19th of the same month, he also won the competition with a 2m28.
At the 2025 World Indoor Championships held in Nanjing, China on March 21, he won the title with 2m31 and ranked first in all three indoor international competitions held this year.
Woo Sang-hyuk, who finished the indoor season in a good mood, prepared for the opening of the outdoor season at Jincheon Training Center.
This year, Woo aimed to win the Nanjing World Indoor Championships in China, the U.S.-China Asian Championships in Korea, and the Tokyo World Outdoor Championships in Japan.
The first goal was achieved.
The Asian Championships, which will open in Gumi on May 27, are aiming for their second consecutive victory.
Woo Sang-hyuk said, "I will hold an international competition in Korea for the first time in 11 years since the 2014 Incheon Asian Games when I was in high school," adding, "It is fun to play in front of domestic fans." "The desire to win an international competition in Korea is also a driving force in training constantly," he said.
If he wins in Europe and America and wins his second consecutive Asian Championship title, he will be lighter heading to Tokyo in September.
About 400 people will participate in 49 events in the final Asian Championships.
If you win an individual event, you will be eligible to be selected first for the Asian Championship.
메이저놀이터 The Korea Association of Athletics Federations will hold a performance improvement committee within a week after the competition to confirm the representative players who will compete in the Asian Championships in Europe and America.
In addition to Woo Sang-hyuk, the best Korean track and field athletes, including Namadi Joeljin (Yecheon County Office), who entered the business stage this year after setting a record of 10 seconds 30 for Korean high school men, and Kim Tae-hee (Iksan City Hall), the women's hammer throw bronze medalist at the Hangzhou Asian Games, will participate in the competition.
Prospects such as men's shot put Park Si-hoon (Kumo High School), women's mid- to long-distance Song Da-won (Yeongcheon Sungnam Girls' High School), and men's short-distance Kim Dong-jin (Daegu Sports High School) will also compete in the integration team and face their seniors.