Kim Min-chun won the ‘2024 National Sports Promotion Organization Chairman’s Cup Wangjoong Wangjeon’.
The event, held at the Misari Racecourse in Hanam on Tuesday, featured the 12 top scorers in the average score from the first round of this year to the last 23 rounds. The Gyeongneung Keirin Keirin General Headquarters of the Seoul Olympic Commemorative National Sports Promotion Organization organizes a total of six grand or special races every year. The first half is the Wangjung Wangjeon, and the second half is the Grand Prix, which is the most prestigious.
The qualifiers themselves are a good indication of which players are the strongest in the first half of the season and have lived up to the expectations of their customers. Moreover, as the name of the tournament suggests, it is a competition to determine the strongest of the strong, so there is a lot of weight and honor attached to winning.
The main attraction of this year’s grand prize race was the battle between the strongest male and female sailors, and while the male sailors have been dominant in the grand prize race, the female sailors were runners-up in the first grand prize race (Sports World Cup) in April. In May, Kim Ji-hyun, who won the May Queen Special Regatta and became the leader of the generation change, and Ahn Ji-min, the original female warrior of the regatta, competed in the final race of the King of Kings. All eyes were on the women to see if they could make it to the podium.
With tension in the air, the long-awaited final race of the 2024 Korea National Sports Promotion Organization Chairman’s Cup Wang Joong Wang took place. All six athletes began to accelerate after the waiting period. Kim Min-chun was the first to reach the turn 1 mark of the first lap, taking advantage of the course advantage. Gathering the momentum, Kim Min-chun crossed the finish line first with his stable race management. Shim Sang-cheol, who poked through 토토사이트 the gap, gave chase but was unable to overturn the order and finished second. Han Sung-geun, Ahn Ji-min, and Kim Ji-min fought for third place. Han Sung-geun was the first to cross the finish line in three strokes.
With two perfect pulls in the qualifiers and finals, Kim Min-chun won the Wangjungwangjeon Wangjungwangjeon after 13 years. In the grand prize race, he won the title for the first time in nine years since the 2015 Kurihara Bae and took home 15 million won. Second-place finisher Shim Sang-chul, who vowed to win all the grand prizes in his first grand prix this year, took home 10 million won, and third-place finisher Han Sung-geun took home 7 million won for his first grand prix win since entering the competition.
“First of all, I want to thank my parents and my family who are waiting anxiously at home,” said Kim Min-chun at the winner’s ceremony, “I was assigned a good motor, and I think the reason I was able to win was because I trusted the motor and focused on the start. We will continue this momentum and do our best to show our sincerity to our customers in the second half of the season.”
“Emerging powerhouses such as Han Sung-geun and Park Won-kyu, and female powerhouses such as Kim Ji-min and Ahn Ji-hyun, battled it out in the final race of the King of Kings, providing a variety of spectacles and guessing fun,” said Lim Byung-jun, Team Manager of Speedboat. “We look forward to the second half of the season as well, with more emerging powerhouses and female powerhouses.”
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