S. Korea adds 2 silvers in kayak sprint events at Asian Games
NAGOYA — South Korea added two silver medals in the men's and mixed kayak sprint events at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Saturday, wrapping up its sprint canoeing campaign with two golds and two silvers. Jang Sang-won finished second in the men's kayak single 500-meter final with a time of 1:44.433 at Miyoshi Lake Canoe Course in Miyoshi, just east of the main host city of Nagoya. He was just…
NAGOYA — South Korea secured two silver medals in kayak sprint events at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Saturday, concluding their sprint canoeing campaign with two golds and two silvers. Jang Sang-won claimed the second-place finish in the men's kayak single 500-meter race, clocking a time of 1:44.433 at the Miyoshi Lake Canoe Course in Miyoshi, located east of Nagoya.
He trailed the Uzbekistani winner, Shakhriyor Makhkamov, by just 0.791 seconds, with the bronze medal going to Dmitriy Kholmogorov of Kazakhstan in 1:44.453. Jang led after the 250-meter mark but failed to maintain his advantage. This marked Jang's second medal at the Asian Games in Japan, following his gold in the men's kayak four 500m event on Thursday.
In the mixed kayak double 500m final, Choi Min-kyu and Seon Min-ju finished fourth, 0.905 seconds behind China's Li Chenhao and Zhang Luxi. Rin Fukuda and Akihiro Inoue of Japan won the bronze in 1:40.720. Choi was also part of the gold-winning men's kayak four team.
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