[National Sports Festival] Seo Chae-hyun, who overcame AG's nightmare, "I didn't cry because it wasn't the final goal"

Hangzhou AG was disappointed with the silver medal due to rain cancellation in the final... Wash away the pain and win the National Sports Festival

Seo Chae-hyun (19, North Face, Seoul City Hall), a sports climbing star, had a nightmare at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games Women's Combine (lead, bouldering) held in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China, on the 7th.

He competed fiercely in the semifinals, tying with his 'rival' Ai Mori (Japan), but as the finals were canceled due to rain, he won a silver medal based on his performance in the preliminaries.

The disappointment was doubled because I lost the gold medal without even being able to play the game. 카지노사이트

However, Seo Chae-hyun did not cry.

This is because the Hangzhou Asian Games were thought to be a path to Olympic gold.

Even after returning to Korea, Seo Chae-hyun focused on training and strengthened herself.

In the 104th National Sports Festival Sports Climbing Women's Lead Final held at the Mokpo International Sports Climbing Stadium in South Jeolla Province on the 14th.

She was the only person to successfully complete the ascent, showing off her overwhelming skills and winning the gold medal.

Seo Chae-hyun, whom we met after the game, said, "I performed poorly in the Asian Games preliminaries because I couldn't adapt perfectly to the local environment, but my condition has improved since the semifinals.

I expected that I would be able to come from behind to win the finals, but it's disappointing that the finals themselves were canceled.

“There is nothing left,” he said.

“But she didn’t cry,” she said, emphasizing that “the Asian Games are not her final goal.”

The encouragement of coach Seo Jong-guk, the national team coach and Seo Chae-hyun's father, was also a great help.

Seo Chae-hyun said, "The coach encouraged me by saying that if he had made the finals, he would have become a gold medalist," and added, "My father's words were a great help and a driving force to continue training."

Seo Chae-hyun seemed to have found confidence through the National Sports Festival.

He raised his voice, saying, "My current physical condition is not bad," and "I will continue the current trend until next month, when the 2024 Paris Olympics Asian quarter competition is held, and I will definitely win the right to participate in the Olympics."

Seo Chae-hyun, who erased the regrets of the Hangzhou Asian Games from her mind, showed off a performance of a different level that day.

He completed the climb and won, scoring 'TOP' in all four attempts, including preliminary routes A and B, semifinals, and finals.

Seo Chae-hyun is the star of Korean sport climbing.

Among the national team players, he is considered to be the closest to winning a medal at the Paris Olympics.

He said that it is also good news that the 'speed' event was recently omitted from the combined event, which is an official Olympic event.

Speed ​​is a competition to see who can climb an artificial rock wall at a 15m height with a 95 degree slope faster.

Lead is an event where the athlete climbs the highest within 6 minutes while holding on to an artificial structure installed on a 15m high rock wall.

If you walk, you will reach the top.

Bouldering is a sport in which players pass through various artificial structures installed on a 4.5m high rock wall within 4 minutes without ropes.

Seo Chae-hyun's main event is leading, and speed, which competes against speed, is her weak event.

In the Olympics, combined performance is determined by adding only the bouldering and lead scores.

However, Seo Chae-hyun is not conceited.

He said, “Not only me, but many combine athletes will think that the omission of the speed event gave them an advantage,” and added, “I will calmly prepare for the Olympic preliminary and final competitions.”