▲ Japan's Ichitaka Yamashita
South Korean male marathoner Park Min-ho (Korea Armed Forces Athletic Corps) completed the 42.195-kilometer full course in 2 hours, 15 minutes, and 35 seconds at the men's marathon held on the road course in Nagoya, Japan, on the 26th, finishing 8th out of 19 competing athletes.
Park Min-ho (Korea Armed Forces Athletic Corps) remained in the leading group up to the 15-kilometer mark before slipping back around the 20-kilometer point.
Kim Hong-rok (Korea Electric Power Corporation), who competed alongside him, finished 10th with a time of 2 hours, 18 minutes, and 27 seconds.
The championship of this event was won by Ichitaka Yamashita (2 hours, 10 minutes, 49 seconds, Japan), the silver medal went to Sawan Barwal (2 hours, 11 minutes, 37 seconds, India), and the bronze medal was claimed by Peng Feiyu (2 hours, 12 minutes, 13 seconds, China).
Han Il-ryong of North Korea, who won the silver medal at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games, finished 4th with a time of 2 hours, 12 minutes, and 21 seconds.
The last time the South Korean men's marathon won a medal at the Asian Games was Ji Young-jun (gold medal) at the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games.
(Photo: AP, Yonhap News)
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