Swimmer Kim Young-beom of the Gangwon State Office won South Korea's first swimming gold medal at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games.
Kim touched the wall first in 21.66 seconds to win the men's 50-meter freestyle final on the 21st at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre in Japan.
The victory gave South Korea back-to-back titles in the event, following Ji Yu-chan of the Daegu Metropolitan City Office at the 2022 Hangzhou Games.
Original reporting by Kang Ji-won for Seoul Economic Daily.
AI-translated from Korean. Quotes from foreign sources are based on Korean-language reports and may not reflect exact original wording.
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