On December 17, Beijing time, at the 2021 Short Course Swimming World Championships, South Korea's 18-year-old Huang Shanyu won the gold medal in the men's 200-meter freestyle! Historically, the biggest superstar in Korean swimming is Park Tae-hwan. Now, Park Tae-hwan's successor has appeared. In this final, Huang Shanyu has been behind, but the last 25 meters to catch up, and finally used the side technology to complete the kill, winning the second place 0.03 seconds! Shegorev and Lapsis won silver and bronze medals respectively.
In this final, Huang Shanyu started to react in 0.60 seconds, the fastest in the whole game! Holding the Asian record in the 100-meter freestyle, Huang Shanyu has a strong future. In the 100 meters, Huang Shanyu was in third place, 0.51 seconds behind. After that, Huang Shanyu was still in 3rd place, 0.67 seconds behind! In the last 50 meters, Huang Shanyu counterattacked, incredible, Huang Shanyu killed! Originally, he was a lot behind, but caught up in the last 25 meters.
1:41.60, this is Huang Shanyu's winning time. At present, Huang Shanyu's turning and departure are excellent, receiving the most advanced swimming training, Huang Shanyu has made rapid progress. In the end, Huang Shanyu won the second place 0.03 seconds, it can be said that he just grabbed the side and killed the rest of the opponents, which is remarkable!
When it comes to Korean swimming, Park Tae-hwan's name has to be said that at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, Park Tae-hwan won the gold medal in the men's 400-meter freestyle and became an Olympic champion! In 2012, the men's 200m freestyle and 400m freestyle were both silver medalists.
In the future, Huang Shanyu's goal is very clear, that is, to become an Olympic champion. Now, 18-year-old Huang Shanyu has become a world champion.
At the Tokyo Olympics, Huang Shanyu played well, breaking the Asian record of 100-meter freestyle held by Ning Zetao. In the 100m freestyle final at the Olympic Games, Huang Shanyu ranked 5th! After the Olympic Games, the Korean Swimming Association awarded Hwang Sun-woo 10 million won. Now that he has won the World Championships, I believe that the Korean Swimming Association will reward the ST World Champion with more rewards!