Park Woo-hyuk of the Korean taekwondo team.
Korean taekwondo team member Park Woo-hyuk (Samsung S One) has secured a silver medal in the final of the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games.
Park defeated Mehran Barkhoudari
(IRAN) by a round score of 2-1 (6-3 7-11 10-10) in the men’s 80kg semifinals of the taekwondo
competition at the Lin’an Sports and Cultural Exhibition Center in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China on Sunday.
Park secured the silver medal and will now face the winner of the Saleh Elsharabati (Jordan)-Saif Al-
Ramahi (Iraq) match for the gold medal.
If he wins gold in this weight class, 카지노사이트랭크 it will be 21 years since he missed out at the 2002 Busan Games.
Park
Scored the first two points of the match in the first period with a body attack. He then went on the
defensive and added a third point with 30 seconds left when he struck his opponent in the face with a forefoot kick.
At the end of the first period, Barkhudari made a strong push, but Park stabilized his game to keep the score at 6-3.
In the second game, Barkudari fought back hard. Park Woo-hyuk allowed a face attack with just over a
minute left and fell behind 0-3. He then tried to attack aggressively to make up for it, but was
counterattacked and fell behind 7-11.
In the final third, Park gave up an early face attack to start the game, giving up three points. However,
Park followed up with a body attack and forced his opponent to give up a point, tying the game at 3-3.
He then managed to take a 4-3 lead with a point deduction, but the score was reversed again with a point
deduction, and they exchanged big attacks at the end of the game.
In the end, the match ended in a 10-10 tie, but Park Woo-hyuk took the advantage in technical points to reach the final in dramatic fashion.
Competing in the men’s 68 kg category, Jin Ho-Joon (Suwon City Hall) lost to Ulbek Rashitov (Uzbekistan)
in the semifinals with a round score of 0-2 (9-16 7-16).
Both players were awarded bronze medals for their semifinal losses. This is Jin’s second medal of the
tournament after his silver in the mixed team event.
Jin
Who has long been touted as the heir apparent to Lee Dae-hoon, the reigning champion of the sport, will
have to settle for a gold medal at the Asian Games.
Notably, his opponent, Rashitov, won the gold medal after defeating Lee in the round of 16 at the Tokyo 2021 Olympic Games.
Meanwhile, Kim Zandi (Samsung S.W.One) failed to win a medal in the 67-kilogram category after losing
to Park Thi Kiem (Vietnam) in the quarterfinals. 고스톱