High Jumper Woo Sang-Hyeok Takes 3rd Place with 2.22m… Wins Medal for 3rd Consecutive Time
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‘Smile Jumper’ Woo Sang-hyeok (30) smiled for the first time in a while. Although he did not win the gold medal he had aimed for, he stood on the podium after overcoming his injury, showing that ‘Woo Sang-hyeok is still going strong.’ On the 27th, at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games men’s high jump final held at the Mizuho Park Athletics Stadium in Nagoya, Japan, Woo Sang-hyeok...
(Nagoya=Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Kyung-yoon = South Korea's high jump star, the 'Smile Jumper' Woo Sang-hyeok (30, Yongin City Hall), will be competing in the men's high jump at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games...
South Korean athletics star Woo Sang-hyeok competed in the high jump final at the Asian Games in Nagoya, Japan, and secured a bronze medal with a record of 2.22 meters. Woo, who had been struggling with his condition following an injury, failed to clear the 2.25 and 2.28 meter barriers and had to settle for a medal.
Korea's high jump star, 'Smile Jumper' Woo Sang-hyeok (Yongin City Hall), won a medal at the Asian Games for the third consecutive time.
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