Woo Sang-hyeok fails to win 2 consecutive medals at the world championships
Woo Sang-hyeok (27, Yongin City Hall)
who was the first Korean track and field athlete to win medals at world championships twice in a row
finished the tournament without standing on the podium.
Woo Sang-hyeok surpassed 2m29 in the men’s high jump final at the 2023 World Championships in Athletics held at the National Stadium in Budapest
Hungary on the 23rd (Korean time) and came in 6th.
As Woo Sang-hyeok was blocked by the walls of 2m33 and 2m36
his dream of winning two world championship medals in a row came to nothing.
At the World Championships in Eugene last year
Woo Sang-hyeok surpassed 2m35 and took second place
the highest achievement ever in Korean athletics 먹튀검증사이트
In Budapest, Woo Sang-hyeok was also considered a favorite for the championship.
Woo Sang-hyeok overcame 2m20, 2m25
and 2m29 all in the first period and started the medal competition.
However
it failed in the first period at 2m33 and lost momentum.
When four people
Jean Marco Tamberry (31, Italy)
Jubon Harrison (24, USA)
Mutaz Esa Barsim (32, Qatar)
and Luis Enrique Sayas (26, Cuba) exceeded 2m33 in the first period
Woo Sang-hyeok He stopped challenging 2m33 and raised the bar to 2m36.
In the high jump
if an athlete fails three times in a row
the competition is over.
Woo Sang-hyeok challenged his Korean record (indoor game) tie-in 2m36 twice more
but repeatedly touched the bar.
As Tobias Fortier (28, Germany) crossed 2m33 in the second period
Woo Sang-hyeok of 2m29 was pushed to 6th place.
On the 17th, Woo Sang-hyeok took 4th place (2m28) in the preliminaries held on the 20th, three days later
and got a ticket to the finals with ease despite the bad news of having to wait 7 hours at the airport due to flight cancellation in Munich
Germany on the 17th
and then moving 700km by land.
put in
He regained his stamina a little more and expected better performance in the finals in front of the bar
but unfortunately he did not reach the podium.
Woo Sang-hyeok easily crossed the 2m20 in his first attempt.
Having succeeded in the first round of 2m25
he smiled brightly and took the ‘Popeye pose’.
Of the 13 athletes who advanced to the final, two were unable to cross the 2m25 barrier.
The full-fledged competition began at 2m29.
Woo Sang-hyeok surpassed 2m29 in the first period.
He touched the bar slightly, but the bar didn’t come off.
Woo Sang-hyeok showed his confidence by raising his thumb toward coach Kim Do-gyun and the crowd.
However
Woo Sang-hyeok failed in the first round of 2m33 and the remaining two rounds of 2m36.
Woo Sang-hyeok
who felt sorry for the fallen bar for a while
smiled his signature smile and clapped his hands toward the audience.
In the game on this day
Tambury overcame 2m36 in the first period and won the championship after beating Harrison
who succeeded in the second period.
After the ‘victory ceremony
Tambury attempted to break his personal record (2m39) at 2m40
but he could not even jump over the bar.
Tambury tied for first place with Barshim at the Tokyo Olympics held in 2021 with 2m37
won the 2016 World Indoor Championships and the 2021 and 2022 Diamond League Finals
but at the outdoor world championships
he did not even win a medal until last year.
However, at this Budapest event, he solved his regret of no medal at the outdoor world championships with gold.
Tambury, who could not completely shake off the aftermath of ankle and calf injuries
struggled to reach the final stage by crossing 2m28 in the third round in the preliminary round on the 20th.
In the final round
he touched the bar in the first 2m25 jump
which was his first jump.
However
after that
he passed all 2m29, 2m33
and 2m36 in the first period and became the world championship champion.
Barsim, who won three consecutive World Championships in London in 2017
Doha in 2019 and Eugene in 2022
finished third in this competition with a 2m33.