▲ Finswimming star Shin Myung-jun (center) poses with his gold medal after winning the men's 100m immersion event with a world record time of 30.70 seconds at the 24th CMAS Finswimming World Championships held at the Munhak Park Tae-hwan Aquatics Center in Incheon on June 25.
South Korean national finswimmer Shin Myung-jun (Seoul City Hall) has set a new world record in the men's 100m immersion at the 24th Confédération Mondiale des Activités Subaquatiques (CMAS) Finswimming World Championships, currently being held on home soil.
Shin touched the pad at 30.70 seconds in the men's 100m immersion final at the Munhak Park Tae-hwan Aquatics Center in Incheon today (June 25), comfortably defeating China's Guan Zhi (31.94 seconds) to secure the gold medal.
He shaved 0.17 seconds off his previous world record of 30.87 seconds, which he had set at the National Sports Festival last October.
This marks the fourth time Shin has set a world record in this event.
He first broke the eight-year-old world record with a time of 31.01 seconds at the World Championships in July 2024, and subsequently surpassed his own mark with a 30.97-second finish at the 105th National Sports Festival in October of that same year.
After setting his third world record last year, he has now rewritten the record books for the fourth time at this tournament.
Meanwhile, in the men's 800m surface relay held on the same day, the South Korean team—consisting of Lee Sung (Daejeon City Hall), Jang Hyung-ho (Gyeonggi Provincial Office), Ha Seung-woo (Gyeongnam Sports Association), and Park Hee-mang (Gangwon Underwater Finswimming Association)—won the bronze medal with a time of 5 minutes and 29.54 seconds.
Lee Sung, who won the men's 1,500m surface event the previous day with an Asian record of 12 minutes and 16.07 seconds, claimed his second medal of the competition.
The tournament will continue at the same venue until June 28.
(Photo: Courtesy of Korea Underwater Association, Yonhap News)
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