Experienced reinforcements will be sent to the Korean table tennis national team, which is in desperate need of improving its performance ahead of the 2024 Busan World Table Tennis Championships and the Paris Olympics.The Korea Table Tennis Association announced on the 13th that it had appointed Korea Exchange coach Yoo Nam-gyu and Korea Racing Authority coach Choi Young-il as heads of the national team training team.Director Yoo and Director Choi will be in charge of communication between the Table Tennis Association and the national team so that the national team can focus only on training.It also plays a role in helping the women’s national team coach Oh Kwang-heon and the men’s national team coach Joo Se-hyuk to ensure that the national team produces its best performance.
The purpose of introducing the training team leader system, which did not exist in the Table Tennis Association, was to solidify the upward trend of Korean table tennis by achieving good results at the World Championships to be held at home in February next year.Korean table tennis had a year of rebound in 2023.Shin Yu-bin (Korean Air) and Jeon Ji-hee (Mirae Asset Securities) won gold medals at the Hangzhou Asian Games for the first time in 21 years, and at the Chengdu Mixed Team World Cup held in China last week, the men’s national team defeated powerhouses such as Japan, Sweden, and Germany, and won the gold medal after China. They teamed up for second place.The Table Tennis Association’s hope is to further improve performance and continue this year’s good trend at the Busan World Championships.Furthermore, she plans to end the humiliation of not receiving a medal twice in a row by winning a medal 무료슬롯게임 at the Paris Olympics held in July this year.