High jumper Woo Sang-hyuk, who is leaping beyond Korea to the world
will become the first Korean track and field athlete to participate in the Diamond League Finals.
Sanghyuk Woo took third place by surpassing 2m31 in the men’s high jump at the 2023 World Association of Athletics Federations Zurich Diamond League held at the Letzigrund Stadium in Zurich, Switzerland on the 1st (Korean time).
Mutaz Essa Barsim (Qatar) and Hamish Kerr (New Zealand) were placed in first and second place with heights of 2m35 and 2m33, respectively.
As a result, Woo Sang-hyuk, who accumulated 6 more Diamond League ranking points, recorded a total of 20 points
ranked 4th in the 2023 season, and won a ticket to the finals, which is awarded up to 6th place. 먹튀검증사이트
The Diamond League, where the world’s best players participate, is held a total of 14 times a year.
A format in which rankings are determined by ranking points in 13 competitions and the final winner is determined in the 14th final competition.
Woo Sang-hyuk, who unfortunately failed to advance to the finals by finishing in 7th place by 1 point last year
took second place in both the Doha competition (2m27) and the Rome/Florence (2m30) competition this year, earning a total of 14 points.
And in this Zurich competition, he added 6 points and comfortably secured a ticket to the finals in 4th place.
Woo Sang-hyuk is the first Korean player to play in the Diamond League Finals.
In addition, with this result, he was able to shake off some of the regret of finishing in 6th place with 2m29 at the 2023 Budapest World Athletics Championships on the 23rd of last month.
On this day, Woo Sang-hyuk, who surpassed 2m15, 2m20m, and 2m24 all in the first period, faced a crisis after failing in the first and second periods in succession at 2m28.
But he did not waver.
He finally broke 2m28 in the third period.
He then touched the bar repeatedly in the first and second periods at 2m31, but succeeded at the end of the third period.
Afterwards, Woo Sang-hyuk, who failed at 2m33 in the first period, took on the challenge of raising the bar to 2m35 when Barshim and Kerr passed it in the first period.
He tried twice, but unfortunately failed to clear the bar.
As such, he finished this competition with a ticket to the finals
taking 3rd place in the competition and 4th place in the 2023 season.