Woo Sang-hyeok, who only added one point in the Diamond League rankings, failed to advance to the final series (6 players) by falling to 7th place with 16 points.
There was only one point in the ranking that was insufficient to advance to the final series.
Woo Sang-hyuk was tied for 8th in the 2022 World Athletics Federation Diamond League men’s high jump event held in Lausanne, Switzerland on the 27th (Korean time), failing to cross the 2m 20 wall. His record that day was 2m15.
This is a disappointing result for Woo Sang-hyeok, who holds the record for outdoor individual maximum of 2m25 and indoor 2m36, and has run more than 2m30 in the previous nine indoor and outdoor games in a row, forming a ‘big 2’ composition with Mutaz Essa Basim (31, Qatar).
Woo Sang-hyuk lightly crossed the 2m15 in the first round.
However, he failed all three times at 2m20.
In the first period, the waist and hips crossed the bar, but the calf touched the bar.
In the second period, the bar lightly rubbed against the buttocks shook for a while and then fell. Woo Sang-hyuk put on a puzzled expression.
Woo Sang-hyuk did not exceed 2m20 even in the 3rd period, and then grabbed his head.
He soon acknowledged the day’s failure, waving to the crowd.
Among the nine players who participated in the Lausanne Diamond men’s high jump, two athletes, Sang-hyeok Woo and Shelby McEwan (26, USA), did not exceed 2m 20.
Woo Sang-hyeok and McEwan finished the match in a tie for 8th.
Andri Prochenko (34, Ukraine), who jumped 2m 24, won the championship.
Basim, Jubon Harrison (23, USA), and Hamash Kerr (26, New Zealand) also finished the match in 2m24, but the rankings were different in the ‘time to try’.
Prochenko, who surpassed all of the 2m15, 2m20 and 2m24 in the first round, took first place, and Bashim, who failed once in the 2m20, took second place.
Harrison was third and Kerr was fourth.
It was unfortunate for Woo Sang-hyeok that Prochenko took first place.
Prior to this competition, Prochenko’s diamond ranking was 9 points.
Prochenko, who added 8 points that day, had a total of 17 points, beating Woo Sang-hyeok, who had 16 points, by one point, and took the final ticket in the final series in 6th place.
The Lausanne competition was the last competition to determine the finalists of the men’s high jump Diamond League Final Series.
In the Diamond League, 8 to 1 points are awarded to 1st to 8th place in each tournament.
Except for the Final Series, there are a total of 5 events organized in the men’s high jump in this year’s Diamond League, which is held 12 times.
Four competitions (Doha, Birmingham, Rome, Monaco) were held before the Lausanne competition. ran 4th
However, in the last Lausanne competition, he only scored one point and allowed a ‘reversal’ to Prochenko, who added eight points.
The players who will participate in the men’s high jump event of the Diamond League Final Series to be held in Zurich, Switzerland on September 8 and 9 include Harrison (23 points), Basim, Django Lovett (22 points, Canada), and Jean Marco Tamberry (20 points, Italy). ), Kerr (19 points) and Prochenko (17 points).
Unless one of these players gives up, Woo Sang-hyeok will not be able to participate in the Final Series.
Woo Sang-hyeok, who will be discharged on September 2nd, confirmed his advance to the Final Series in the Lausanne Diamond League, the last tournament to be played as a ‘military’, and made a plan to participate in the final series as a ‘reserve’.
However, by one point, they failed to advance to the final series.
Woo Sang-hyuk had a breathless year in 2022.
Woo Sang-hyeok, who moved to the United States in December of last year and started field training, moved to Europe in January, and wrote the first history in Korean track and field history several times since.
On March 20, Belgrade won the World Indoor Athletics Championships (2m34), on May 14th Doha Diamond League Championship (2m33), and on July 19th, Eugene placed second in the World Outdoor Championships (2m35).
Although he failed to advance to the final series, Woo Sang-hyeok, who has been recognized as the world’s top jumper, is working hard to win the 2023 World Championships in Budapest and the 2024 Paris Olympics. Yonhap News