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Growing in Experience, Hwang Sun-Woo Aiming to Be Best Self by Paris<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hwang Sun-Woo<\/strong> doesn\u2019t have to be told about the pressure that comes with being a star athlete in South Korea. He knows the historical context, from his performance at the Tokyo Olympics last summer to his medal at the 2022 World Championships, the first since Park Tae-Hwan<\/strong> in 2011.<\/p>\n

At 19, he fully understands what it means to be the standard-bearer for a country\u2019s swim program. After all, he literally carried the flag at the Tokyo Olympics<\/a>, barely two months after his 18th birthday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s true that a lot of fans and media are putting pressure on it,\u201d Hwang recently told Swimming World, via Zoom and through an interpreter. \u201c\u2026 I feel the pressure from the fans and media, but I appreciate it. I use it for my own motivation, to practice more and to improve my times.\u201d<\/p>\n

If Hwang is looking for external pressures, he\u2019ll find no shortage of them. There\u2019s his status as the next big hope for South Korea program, the first since Park. There\u2019s his collision course for the foreseeable future with another generational talent in David Popovici<\/strong>, part of a burgeoning cohort of mid-distance freestylers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Hwang Sun-Woo at the 2021 FINA Short-Course World Championships; Photo Courtesy: Andrea Staccioli \/ Deepbluemedia \/ Insidefoto<\/p><\/div>\n

But Hwang\u2019s goals are self-directed. His objective over the next two years on the road to the Paris Olympics, he said, is all about himself and lowering his times. Fast as he\u2019s swimming, he\u2019s still learning about how to perform on the international stage and handle big events.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy personal goal for the Olympics is improving my time for the 200 freestyle,\u201d Hwang said. \u201cI think doing that, that will bring me onto the podium.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hwang has already showed that in the 200 free, his signature event. Hwang\u2019s introduction in Tokyo was to blast a Korean record and world junior record of 1:44.62 in prelims<\/a>, the third time he’d lowered that world junior record dating to the fall of 2020<\/a>. He wouldn\u2019t quite replicate that speed in semifinals or finals, going 1:45.62 to finish seventh in the final. (His prelims time would\u2019ve won bronze had he duplicated it in the final.)<\/p>\n

From that, Hwang learned to pace better, having gone out too quickly in the first 100 and having not enough left on the back end. With the amended race plan, he earned silver at Worlds in 1:44.47<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cI learned from it,\u201d he said, \u201cand what I showed in this World Championships is what I learned.\u201d<\/p>\n

That Popovici won the event and took the world junior record, in 1:43.21, is of secondary importance to Hwang. He called it \u201can amazing\u201d swim from the Romanian, who is 16 months younger than Hwang, and he played down any notion of rivalry between them.<\/p>\n

Hwang has plenty to aim for. He set the Korean record in the 100 free in the spring at 47.56 seconds, then finished 11th in 48.08 in Budapest. In addition to the two freestyle records, he owns the Korean mark in the 200 IM<\/a> (1:58.04) and helped the nation reset both freestyle relay records at Worlds this summer. (He anchored the 400 medley relay record at Olympic Trials last year.)<\/p>\n

Over the short course, he owns the 50 and 100 free and 100 IM marks. He won gold in the 200 free at the World Championships last December in Abu Dhabi<\/a>, prevailing in a gutsy race over a deep field in 1:41.60. (Park still holds that Korean record, a half-second ahead of Hwang.)<\/p>\n

Hwang lists Park as a significant inspiration. Though he doesn\u2019t have a personal relationship with the four-time Olympic medalist, watching Park win gold in the 400 freestyle at the 2008 Beijing Olympics was a formative experience for Hwang, then five years old. He set out to follow that path and reach the same heights.<\/p>\n

Given his youth, the Paris Olympics were always the more substantial goal. Wonderful as a medal in Tokyo would\u2019ve been, the primary purpose was to learn about competing on the world stage as part of the preparation for Paris.<\/p>\n

Those lessons have already paid dividends. With Worlds looming in the Olympic year, Hwang has positioned the Asian Games, moved to the fall of 2023 in Hangzhou, China, as his major meet next year.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s all in service of being the best he can be the next time the Olympics arrive.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I went to the Olympics for the first time, I didn\u2019t have much experience,\u201d Hwang said. \u201cBut going through the Olympics and two World Championships, I earned a lot of experience from it. With that experience, I\u2019ll be ready for the next World Championships and the Olympics.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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