[Asian Games] Men’s Marathon Shim Jong-seop 7th, Park Min-ho 11th… North Korea’s Han Il-yong wins silver medal
Shim Jong-seop (32, Korea Electric Power Corporation) ranked 7th in the men’s marathon at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games.
Minho Park (24, Kolon), who also participated, finished the race in 11th place.
Sim Jong-seop
On the 5th, Sim Jong-seop completed the 42.195km full course that goes around the Qiantang River in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China and enters Smart New World in 2 hours, 16 minutes and 58 seconds.
Minho Park’s record 온라인카지노사이트 was 2 hours, 18 minutes and 12 seconds.
The Korean men’s marathon was hoping to win an Asian Games medal for the first time in 13 years since Ji Ji-jun (gold medal) at the 2010 Guangzhou Games in this competition,
but only found a gap with the top runners in Asia.
The actual gap is larger because Japan did not send its key players to this tournament.
Heo Je (24, China) won this competition with a time of 2 hours, 13 minutes and 02 seconds.
Asian Games
This is the first time a Chinese athlete has won the men’s marathon at the Asian Games.
Second place was North Korea’s Han Il-yong (23).
Han Il-yong crossed the finish line in 2 hours, 13 minutes and 27 seconds.
Han Il-yong, who debuted on the international stage at the 2019 Beijing Marathon and placed sixth with a time of 2 hours,
11 minutes and 37 seconds, won a silver medal in his first Asian Games.
It has been 25 years since Kim Jeong-won (3rd place) at the 1998 Bangkok Games that a North Korean men’s marathon won a medal at the Asian Games.
Third place went to Yang Shaohui (31, China) with 2 hours, 13 minutes and 39 seconds.