Oh Jun-seong (left) and Park Gyu-hyeon
‘Next-generation ace’ Oh Jun-seong (Mirae Asset Securities) won a gold medal at the 70th National Men’s and Women’s Table Tennis Championships.
Oh Jun-seong defeated Park Gyu-hyeon (Mirae Asset Securities) 3-1 (4-11 11-8 11-7 11-5) in the men’s singles final of the general division held at Gangneung Arena in Gangwon-do on the 17th.
Oh Jun-seong, born in 2006, became the youngest winner of the men’s general division of this competition.
Oh Jun-seong has been competing in good faith with his one-year older brother and teammate Park Gyu-hyun as his doubles partner. 메이저사이트
In the final of the Korea Middle and High School Table Tennis Championships in November 2021, Oh Jun-seong, then a third-year student at Daegwang Middle School, defeated Park Gyu-hyeon, a first-year student at Shinban Information High School, to win the championship.
After Park Gyu-hyun and Oh Jun-seong joined Mirae Asset Securities in turn in 2022, the two formed a doubles group.
Oh Jun-seong won a silver medal in the men’s team event at the Hangzhou Asian Games in October last year and became the youngest Asian Games medalist in Korean table tennis history. In December, he defeated Park Gyu-hyun to win the 77th Shinhan SOL National Men’s and Women’s Table Tennis Championships.
Oh Jun-seong missed out on qualification for the World Table Tennis Championships in Busan last February after losing to Park Gyu-hyun, but performed well by reaching the round of 16 at the World Table Tennis (WTT) Champions Incheon Tournament held in March.
Oh Jun-seong said, “I haven’t been able to play many games in Korea due to the recent international competition schedule, but it was good to win a competition for the first time in a long time.” He added, “I go into the game with the intention of learning from (Park) Kyuhyun, who is always a difficult opponent. We can go to the 2028 Olympics together.” “Wouldn’t it be great?” I expected. 슬롯사이트
Kim Taek-soo, general manager of Mirae Asset Securities, said, “Oh Jun-seong and Park Gyu-hyun have a relationship of giving and receiving help. While they show a sense of competition, they also have a lot of technical exchanges as partners.”
In the men’s team finals, Samsung Life Insurance, featuring leading national players such as Lee Sang-soo, Cho Dae-sung, and Cho Seung-min, won the championship by defeating Mirae Asset Securities 3-1.
Samsung Life’s Lim Yu-no and Noh Ji-min team also reached the top in men’s doubles.
In the women’s general team finals, Korean Air won the championship, defeating POSCO International 3-1.
In the individual competition, Yang Ha-eun (POSCO) won the singles, and paired with Yu Han-na, she also won a gold medal in the doubles, winning two gold medals.
In the college team event, Kyonggi University and Incheon University each won the men’s and women’s singles championship, and in the individual event, Yoon Chang-min (Kyonggi University) and Kim Min-seo (Yongin University) won the men’s and women’s singles event. 토토사이트 순위