▲ Myeong-Jin Jang (from left), Young-Sil Choi and Mi-Hyeon Kim compete in the Quarterfinals of the women’s group over 30 years of age at the ‘2022 Goyang World Taekwondo Poomsae Championships’ held at Kintex, Goyang, Gyeonggi Province on the 21st. Provided by the Korea Taekwondo Association
From the first day of the ‘2022 Goyang World Taekwondo Poomsae Championships’, which started on the 21st The Korean national team won the gold medal. Kim Mi-hyeon (36), Choi Young-sil (34), Jang Myung-jin (33)this is the main character
Kim Mi-hyeon, Choi Young-sil, and Jang Myung-jin participated in the World Taekwondo Poomsae Championships held at Kintex, Goyang, Gyeonggi-do, and won the quarterfinals of the official poomsae women’s group over 30.
The official poomsae competition is a competition in which an individual or a team decides the superiority by the total score for each item scored by demonstrating two designated poomsae including Geumgang and Pyeongwon. The accuracy of basic movements and detailed movements for each Poomsae, posture balance, and connection between movements are important.
In the first match of the quarterfinals that day, the three players performed 8 Taegeuk and Goryeo Poomsae, earning a total of 7.36 points out of 10, beating Spain, which received 6.75 points, with plenty of time to advance to the quarterfinals. In the quarterfinals, they performed Geumgang and Cheongwon Poomsae and scored 7.27 points, beating Mexico (6.4 points) by a large margin and went to the finals.
▲ Myeong-jin Jang (from left), Young-sil Choi, and Mi-hyeon Kim perform poomsae during the ‘2022 World Taekwondo Poomsae Championships in Goyang’ held at Kintex, Goyang, Gyeonggi-do on the 21st in the Quarterfinals of the women’s group over 30 years old. Provided by the Korea Taekwondo Association
In the final that followed, he demonstrated sipjin and jitae poomsae and scored 7.52 points, beating the United States, which had 7.2 points, by 0.32 points to win the championship.
Kim Mi-hyeon said, “There were a lot of difficulties in training due to injuries, but it seems that good results came from trusting each other and playing.”
The Korean national team also participated in the official poomsae junior women’s team event, the men’s 30-year-old team event, and the free poomsae 17-year-old team event on the same day, passing the preliminaries and advancing to the finals on the 22nd.
on the 22nd Yeo-Won Kwak (28) and Wan-Jin Kang (24) will participate as national players in the Taekwondo Poomsae Individual Competition at the Hangzhou Asian Games in China in September.Participating in a total of 14 events, including participating in the 17-year-old women’s team event and the 30-year-old men’s individual event.
This competition will be held for 4 days from today to the 24th. 972 athletes from 62 countries participated.
Reporter Oh Se-jin