Park Wins Swimming Gold at World Championships

I would like to send out a big congratulations to Park Tae-hwan who won Korea’s first ever swimming medal:

Park Tae-hwan of South Koreapulled off an upset at the first swimming final of the world championships Sunday, coming from behind to knock off Aussie favorite Grant Hackett in the 400-meter freestyle.

Park made a furious sprint over the final 50 meters, passing three swimmers — Hackett included — before he touched the wall in 3 minutes, 44.30 seconds to become South Korea’s first world champion.

In fact, it was the first medal of any kind for the South Koreans in the history of the world aquatic championships.

Hopefully Park’s success carries over into next year’s Olympics in Beijing. 

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augmento
17 years ago

I agree Congrats! I was really put out when I the best room I could get in Melbourne was a youth hostel full of female swim teams for this competition but Park winning the gold made all that rubbernecking worth it.

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