The Korean Paralympic team, which competed at the 2024 Paris Paralympics, succeeded in achieving its goal with three days left before the closing of the competition (8th, local time).
Kim Ki-tae (Seoul Metropolitan Government), the next-generation ace in table tennis, won the men’s singles (sports grade MS11) final at the Paris Paralympics at South Paris Arena 4 in Paris, France, on the 5th, beating Taiwan’s Jeon Je-yan with a set score of 3-1 (3-1 11-15-13 11-7 11-9).
World No. 3 Kim Ki-tae defeated world No. 1 Samuel Bon Ainem of Australia in the semifinals and even captured world No. 5 Jeon Jeon Jeon-yen, giving South Korea its fifth gold medal of the tournament.
South Korea has set its goal for this year’s event at five gold medals and 20th place in the overall ranking.
South Korea previously won its first gold medal in P1 men’s 10m air pistol sports grade SH1, while Park Jin-ho (Gangneung City Hall) won two gold medals in R1 men’s 10m air rifle entry (sports grade SH1) and shooting R7 men’s 50m rifle 3 positions (sports grade SH1).
On top of that, Jung Ho-won (Gangwon Provincial Sports Council for the Disabled) won the Boccia Men’s Individual Competition (Sports Grade BC3).
On the same day, Jung Ho-won won a silver medal by losing to Hong Kong by a four-end total of 3-5 (0-3 3-0-10-1) in the final of the Boccia Mixed Fair (Sports Grade BC3), which he participated with Kang Sun-hee (47, KEPCO KPS).
Jung Ho-won finished the tournament with one gold and one silver.
Kang Sun-hee, who participated in the Paralympics for the first time, won an individual bronze medal and a pair silver medal.
Seo Min-kyu (Ansan Sports Council for the Disabled), Jung Sung-joon (Gyeonggi-do Disabled Boccia Federation) and Jung So-young (Chungnam Disabled Boccia Federation) failed to win a medal after losing to Japan 3-8 (0-10-3 3-0-10-20-1) in the bronze medal match of the Boccia Mixed Group (Sports Grade BC1, BC2) held in the morning.
The Korean Boccia national team finished this tournament with one gold medal (BBC3 Jung Ho-won), three silver medals (BBC1 Jung Sung-joon, women’s BC2 Jung So-young, mixed pair), and one bronze medal (BBC3 Kang Sun-hee).
With Chung Ho-won’s individual gold medal, Boccia of South Korea set a record of winning gold medals for 10 consecutive times from the 1988 Seoul Games to this event. 메이저사이트
Seo Soo-yeon (Gwangju Metropolitan Government), who competed in the semi-finals of the women’s singles sports grade WS1-2, won the bronze medal by losing 2-3 (11-58-117-111 12-10 11-13) to “natural enemy” Liu Jing (China).
Paralympic table tennis does not play the third – fourth place final, but gives bronze to all the players who lost in the semi – finals.
Seo lost to Liu Jing in the singles final at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Paralympics and the singles final at the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics, and again dropped her head to the same player in the singles semifinals after losing to Liu Jing-Shejuan Zhao in the women’s doubles final at the Paris Paralympics.
Jang Young-jin (Seoul Metropolitan Government) also won the bronze medal after losing to China’s Feng Pan Feng with a set score of 0-3 (9-114-119-11) in the semi-finals of the men’s singles sports grade MS3.
Blind judoka Lee Min-jae (Pyeongtaek City Hall) missed the bronze medal unfortunately after losing to Kovara David (Ukraine) in the men’s individual 60kg bronze medal match (Sports Grade J2).
The women’s wheelchair fencing team consisting of Cho Eun-hye (Brubel Korea), Baek Kyung-hye (Hanjeon KDN), and Kwon Hyo-kyung (Hongseong County Office) was eliminated after losing to China 22-45 in the women’s foil team quarterfinals.
Park Jin-ho, aiming for a triple crown in shooting, shot 164.6 points in the final round of the R6 mixed 50m rifle (sports grade SH1), finishing the competition in sixth place.
South Korea, which won one gold, one silver, and two bronze medals on the 5th, is 17th in the overall ranking with five gold, eight silver, and 13 bronze medals.
