Korea settles for silver in taekwondo mixed gender event at Asian Games

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Published: 25 Sep. 2023, 21:55 Updated: 25 Sep. 2023, 22:00

Korea settles for silver in taekwondo mixed gender event at Asian Games

The Korean taekwondo team reacts after losing the final of the mixed gender team to China at Lin'an Sports Culture Convention & Exhibition Center Gymnasium in Hangzhou, China on Monday. [YONHAP]

The Korean taekwondo team won a silver medal at the Hangzhou Asian Games after an 84-77 loss to China in the final of the mixed gender team event at Lin'an Sports Culture Convention & Exhibition Center Gymnasium in Hangzhou, China on Monday.

A mixed gender team consists of two male and two female practitioners.

Korea’s Seo Geon-woo, Kim Jan-di, Lee Da-bin and Park Woo-hyeok went up against Cui Yang, Song Zhaoxiang, Song Jie and Zhou Zeqi.

Korea was off to a good start, winning the first round 30-21. Team China bounced back and made it 60-57 at the end of the second round.

It came down to the third round and Korea scored 20 points, but it fell short of China’s 24 and China claimed the gold with a final score of 84-77.

China became the first-ever country to win a gold in the mixed gender team contest that took place in this year’s Asian Games.

Team Korea’s silver was Korea’s fourth medal in taekwondo this year.

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Jang Jun secured a gold earlier in the day, with two golds from Kang Wan-jin and Cha Yea-eun a day before. Kang and Cha medaled in poomsae — a sequence of taekwondo techniques linked together into a pattern of moves.

Taekwondo is one of the sports that Korea has the best chance of securing multiple medals in this year, as it has been the winningest country in the tournament with 86 medals to date.

Korea has won 61 golds, 17 silvers and eight bronzes since the 1986 Asiad in Seoul. They also claimed the most medals in 2018, winning five gold, five silver and two bronze.

BY PAIK JI-HWAN [paik.jihwan@joongang.co.kr]