Seo Chae-hyun, the face of South Korean sport climbing, won a gold medal at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games.
Seo reached the top of the wall in the women's lead final held on the 3rd at the Port Messe Nagoya exhibition center in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, beating her rival Ai Mori of Japan, who recorded 47+. It is Korea's first sport climbing gold since Chon Jong-won won the combined event at the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games, when the sport made its debut as an official event. In lead climbing, competitors try to climb as high as possible on a 15-meter artificial wall within a six-minute limit. Reaching the top means the climber completed every hold to the final one.
Seo won silver in the combined event at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games. After taking bronze in bouldering at this year's Games, she claimed gold in lead, her main discipline, to stand atop Asia.
