South Korea’s Kim Soo-ji (Ulsan Metropolitan City Hall), who competed in the diving women’s 3-meter springboard preliminaries, became the first Korean female diver to advance to the semifinals for the second consecutive Olympics.
Kim Soo-ji secured a place in the semifinals given to the top 18 players as she ranked 11th with a total of 285.50 points in the first to fifth periods in the women’s 3m springboard preliminary round at the 2024 Paris Olympics held at the Aquatic Center in Paris, France on the 7th (Korea time).
Kim Su-ji will play in the semifinals on the 8th, and if she ranks in the top 12, she will be the first Korean diving female to advance to the finals.
Kim Soo-ji started tied for 12th with 58.50 points in the first period.
After going through the second and third periods, it fell to 16th place.
However, in the fourth period, he rose to 13th place with 58.50 points with “a difficulty 3.0 performance in which he runs forward and runs two and a half laps in a pike position where he holds his hands behind his legs with his knees straightened.”
He then finished the preliminary round by receiving 57.00 points in 5,152B acting with a twist motion, raising the ranking to 11th place.
Whenever Kim Soo-ji participates in the Olympics, she breaks the record she set.
First of all, Kim Su-ji, who was the youngest Korean team to compete in the 2012 London Olympics, finished at the bottom of the 26 in the preliminary round of the women’s 10-meter diving platform.
However, the Olympic Games that I experienced at a young age were irreplaceable assets. After winning the bronze medal at the world swimming championships held in Gwangju five years ago, I thought it was worthwhile to be ranked 23rd in the world. The medal at the world swimming championships is very special, but I think the fact that I participated in the Olympics seven years ago is even more memorable.”
Then at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in 2021, she became the first Korean female diver to qualify for the Olympics in the 3-meter springboard and finished 15th in the semifinals. 안전놀이터
At the 2024 Doha World Championships held in February, Kim Soo-ji won a bronze medal in the women’s 3-meter springboard and also collaborated with Lee Jae-kyung (Incheon Metropolitan City Sports Council) for a bronze medal in the mixed 3-meter springboard. In November last year, she suffered a torn cartilage in her left knee and managed to harvest two medals at the Doha World Championships even though she did not have enough training.
Kim once picked Kim Yu-na, the “Figure skating queen” as her role model. When she was young, she was known to have been fascinated by Kim’s unique performance on the ice. “Kim Yu-na’s competitions always give great strength to her. I often watch her performances at games and ice shows whenever I have time,” she told Spotify News five years ago.
On the same day, Woo Haram scored a total of 432.00 points in the first to sixth periods in the men’s 3-meter springboard semi-finals, marking ninth out of a total of 18 and winning a ticket to the final given to the top 12. However, Lee Jae-kyung, who participated together, failed to advance to the final, finishing 17th with a total of 366.50 points.
Woo will make the final appearance at the Olympics three times in a row, following Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020. Woo, who finished fourth in the 3-meter springboard final at the Tokyo Olympics three years ago, is aiming for her first medal in Korean diving history in Paris.
