104TH KOREAN NATIONAL SPORT FESTIVAL
- Thursday, October 12th – Friday, October 19th
- Mokpo Indoor Pool
- LCM (50m)
- Recap #1
- Recap #2
- Results (in Korean)
For the first time in history, one athlete has earned three consecutive Korean National Sport Festival MVP awards.
Following the conclusion of the 104th edition of the annual event, 20-year-old Hwang Sunwoo was named MVP, adding the accolade to his honors from 2021 and 2022.
Hwang reportedly received 57 of the 63 votes and received a 5 million won (~$3700 USD) bonus. Encouraging for Korean swimming, however, was that another aquatic athlete, Kim Woomin, was next in line in the voting.
Despite having reportedly entered this competition recovering from food poisoning, Hwang came away with 5 gold medals, topping the podium in each of his events.
Hwang’s golds came in the men’s 4x200m free relay, the 200m free, the 4x100m free relay, the 100m free and the 4x100m medley relay. Individual times for Hwang included 48.48 in the 100m and 1:45.72 in the 200m.
Olympian Park Tae Hwan has earned the most MVP awards ever, accumulating 5 across 2005, 2007, 2008, 2013 and 2017. Hwang is well on his way to challenging that ‘number of awards’ record.
Hi
If his 2free was able to reach the mid45 though his body in this bad situation, what happened at the WC?
Also,there have been words that he has plans to to go Georgia?Maybe NCAA???
Hwang to the US? I don’t see that coming at all for now but he might take it into consideration probably after Paris?