LH Sports Team Achieves Great Success with 9 Medals at National Sports Festival

7 LH Sports Team Athletes Win Medals
Modern Pentathlon Veteran Jeong Jinhwa Wins Gold...A Successful Finish

Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH) announced on the 18th that athletes belonging to its sports team won a total of 9 medals at the 105th National Sports Festival (hereinafter referred to as the National Sports Festival), including 2 gold medals, 5 silver medals, and 2 bronze medals.

On the 14th, at the 105th National Sports Festival modern pentathlon awards ceremony held at Gyeongnam Sports High School in Jinju, athlete Jeong Jinhwa (LH, center) is posing for a commemorative photo with other athletes while wearing a gold medal around his neck. / Photo by LH

Among the LH modern pentathlon team athletes, Jung Jin-hwa won the gold medal in the men's individual event and the bronze medal in the men's team event, while Jang Ha-eun and Han Ye-won won the silver medal in the women's general relay event.

In particular, Jung Jin-hwa, the 'eldest brother' of Korean modern pentathlon, competed in the men's general pentathlon and topped the podium with a total score of 1533 points. Jung, who has had a brilliant athletic career including winning the individual title at the 2017 World Championships (the first Korean to do so) and the team gold medal at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games, plans to retire after this competition and start a second chapter of his life as an ordinary office worker.

In archery, LH’s Im Doo-na shone brightly. She clinched the gold medal in the women's general recurve event by defeating Kim So-hee (Cheongju City Hall) in a shoot-off, and also won silver medals in the women's individual 60m event and the mixed team event.

In wrestling, Kim Min-woo (LH) won the silver medal in the Greco-Roman 60kg men's general event, and Kim Guk-hyun (LH) also won silver in the freestyle 57kg men's general event. Lee Ji-yeon (LH) earned a bronze medal in the Greco-Roman 72kg men's event.

LH has been operating its sports team by forming three teams in total: wrestling (established in 1968 as Korea’s first wrestling team), archery (1983), and modern pentathlon (2009), aiming to contribute to the revitalization of less popular sports. In particular, LH has continuously supported the activation and athlete development of modern pentathlon for 40 years since 1985.

An LH official said, "We are grateful to the athletes who showed remarkable achievements despite difficult conditions," and added, "We ask for the public’s continued interest in less popular sports such as modern pentathlon and wrestling."

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