Athlete Woo Sang-hyeok is taking a commemorative photo after winning the silver medal at the 10th Asian Indoor Athletics Championships. Photo by Yongin City
[Asia Economy (Yongin) = Reporter Lee Young-gyu] Woo Sang-hyeok, a member of the 'Smile Jumper' team under the workplace sports club of Yongin City, Gyeonggi Province, won a silver medal at the 10th Asian Indoor Athletics Championships.
On the 12th, Yongin City announced on the 13th that Woo Sang-hyeok, who is ranked number one in the world in high jump and holds the Korean high jump record (2.36m), recorded 2.24m and placed second at the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships held in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan.
This is the second time a South Korean athlete has won a silver medal at the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships. It has been 11 years since Choi Yoon-hee won a silver medal in women's pole vault at the 2012 Hangzhou, China competition.
Woo Sang-hyeok moved from Seocheon County Office in Chungnam Province to Yongin City Hall last year.
Woo Sang-hyeok plans to return to Korea on the 14th, participate in the Diamond League meet in Doha, Qatar in May, and then compete consecutively in the World Championships in Budapest, Hungary (August) and the Hangzhou Asian Games (September).
Lee Sang-il, mayor of Yongin City, said, "Woo Sang-hyeok has the advantage of competing optimistically with his characteristic smile in any situation," and congratulated him, saying, "It must not have been easy to train and compete while competing away from home, but I welcome the good results in the first competition of this year."
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