The golden generation of Korean swimming unfortunately did not achieve their dream of winning an Olympic medal.


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On the 30th (local time), at the La D?fense Swimming Center in Paris, France, in the men's 4x200m freestyle relay final at the 2024 Paris Olympics, Korea, with Yang Jae-hoon (Gangwon Province Office), Lee Ho-jun (Jeju City Office), Kim Woo-min, and Hwang Sun-woo (both from Gangwon Province Office) swimming in that order, finished 6th with a time of 7 minutes 07.26 seconds.


Swimming powerhouses Great Britain (6:59.43), the United States (7:00.78), and Australia (7:01.98) took the gold, silver, and bronze medals respectively.


Earlier, the Korean team qualified for the final by finishing 7th out of 16 participating countries in the preliminaries with a time of 7:07.96, swimming in the order of Lee Ho-jun, Lee Yoo-yeon (Goyang City Office), Kim Young-hyun (Anyang City Office), and Kim Woo-min.


Although they failed to win a medal, it is significant that Korean swimming reached the Olympic team event final for the first time in history.


The Korean team's time on the day was more than 5 seconds slower than the Korean record of 7:01.73.



The golden generation of Korean swimming set an Asian record of 7:01.73 at the Hangzhou Asian Games held last September, winning Korea's first Asian Games gold medal in a swimming team event. In February, at the 2024 World Championships held in Doha, they finished 2nd with a time of 7:01.94, earning Korea's first-ever medal in a world championship team event, a silver.


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