The Paris Paralympics have drawn to a conclusion, with South Korea having surpassed its gold medal goal.
South Korea completed the 12-day competitors that ended Sunday in twenty second place with six gold medals, 10 silver medals and 14 bronze medals. The Korea Paralympic Committee, which despatched 177 athletes and coaches to Paris, had got down to win 5 gold medals.
On the earlier Paralympics in Tokyo in 2021, South Korea had managed solely two gold medals, its fewest whole in over 4 a long time.
Half of the gold medals on the Paris Paralympics got here from capturing. Park Jin-ho was the nation’s lone double gold medalist, because of his titles within the males’s 10-meter air rifle standing (SH1 classification) and 50m rifle 3 positions (SH1) occasions.
Jo Jeong-du grabbed the opposite capturing gold medal for South Korea within the males’s 10m air pistol (SH1). It was additionally South Korea’s very first gold medal of the competitors.
South Korea swept up 14 medals in para desk tennis, greater than another sport, with Kim Younger-gun (MS4) and Kim Gi-tae (MS11) profitable gold medals within the males’s singles. Kim Younger-gun’s gold, which got here Saturday, was South Korea’s sixth gold medal.
Jeong Ho-won captured the boys’s particular person (BC3) gold medal in boccia, extending South Korea’s gold profitable streak within the sport to 10 Paralympics.
Away from competitors, South Korean Paralympian Received Yoo-min was elected to the Athletes’ Council on the Worldwide Paralympic Committee (IPC) on Saturday.
With 296 votes, he ranked fourth amongst 25 candidates in voting by fellow Paralympic athletes and have become one in all six new members for the council. He’ll serve a four-year time period and can symbolize the pursuits of Paralympians whereas offering suggestions to the IPC.
Received, 36, emigrated to Canada at age 12 and represented the nation in wheelchair basketball on the 2016 Summer time Paralympics. Received recovered his South Korean nationality in 2017 and competed in para nordic snowboarding for his native nation on the 2022 Winter Paralympics.
