[Asian Games] Park Jae-hoon Wins 3rd Place in Marathon Swimming Debut... First Medal for a Korean

Marathon Swimming Adopted as Official Event for the First Time in This Competition

Park Jae-hoon (23, Seogwipo City Hall), a pioneer of open water swimming (marathon swimming) in Korea, won a bronze medal at the Asian Games.

Leading Korean Marathon Swimming, Park Jae-hoon
[Photo by Yonhap News]

On the 7th, Park Jae-hoon finished 3rd with a time of 1 hour 56 minutes 00.3 seconds in the men's 10 km open water swimming event at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games held at the Chun'an Jieshou Sports Center in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. Park has been a pioneer in this event, having been selected for the national open water swimming team for five consecutive years since the 2019 Gwangju World Aquatics Championships, when Korea first formed a national open water swimming team. Open water swimming was included as an official Asian Games event for the first time in Hangzhou, and Park Jae-hoon became the first Korean medalist in this discipline.

In the race, Zhang Ziyang (China) won the gold with a time of 1 hour 55 minutes 45.8 seconds, and Lan Tianchen (China) took silver with 1 hour 55 minutes 46.2 seconds. Park Jae-hoon pushed Minamide Daishin (Japan), who finished 4th with 1 hour 56 minutes 09.7 seconds, off the podium to claim the bronze. Another Korean competitor, Sung Junho (Sungkyunkwan University), finished 15th with a time of 2 hours 06 minutes 50.4 seconds.

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