Park Si-hoon, 12th place in men's shot put at Asian Games... Kim Seo-yoon sets a new Korean record in the women's 400m

(Nagoya = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Kyung-yoon = ‘Thor’ Park Si-hoon (19, Ulsan Metropolitan City Hall) finished 12th in his first Asian Games.

Park Si-hoon ranked 12th out of 13 athletes with a record of 17m 97 in the men's shot put finals of the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games held at the Mizuho Park Athletic Stadium in Nagoya, Japan on the 26th.

Park Si-hoon was disqualified in the first period and threw 17m97 in the second period.

He was disqualified again in the third period and ended the competition as he did not make it into the top eight.

The winner was Mohammad Reza Tayebise (Iran), who set a new competition record of 20m81, the silver medal went to India's Tajinderpal Singh Toor (20m64), and the bronze medal went to Saudi Arabia's Mohammed Tolu (20m48).

Park Si-hoon is a shot put athlete who holds all Korean records in elementary, middle, and high school divisions.

He set a new U-20 Asian record (20m65, shot put weight 6kg) at the U-20 Asian Athletics Championships in May this year, and last month he won a silver medal with a throw of 20m31 at the World Athletics (WA) U-20 World Championships, becoming the first Korean athlete to win the event.

However, at the Asian Games, an adult stage where he competed with the 7.26kg shot put, he performed somewhat disappointingly.

The adult Korean record for this event is 19m 49, set by Jeong Il-woo in July 2015.

Kim Seo-yoon (Changwon City Hall) won the women's 400m final with a time of 53.38 seconds, breaking the Korean record (53.67 seconds) achieved by Lee Yun-kyung in August 2003 for the first time in 23 years.

He set a personal best of 53.81 seconds in the preliminaries the day before, and set his best time again in the finals.

He came in fourth place, behind Bahrain's Salwa Nasser (49.20 seconds), Iran's Zahra Zaray Manuzan (52.38 seconds), and India's Prachi (53.21 seconds).

In the men's triple jump, Kim Jang-woo (Jangheung County Office), the Korean record holder (17m 13), ranked 4th with a record of 16m 50m.

Kim Jang-woo, who jumped 16m20 in the third period, was disqualified in the fourth period, but jumped to fourth place by recording 16m50 in the fifth period.

And in the 6th and final period, he recorded 15m74 and unfortunately did not make it to the podium.

China's Su Wen won the gold medal with a new Asian Games record of 17m 42, Manato Miyao (16m 77, Japan) won the silver medal, and Ma Yinglong (16m 75, China) won the bronze medal.

Kim Dong-hyuk (Korea National Sport University), who competed in the same event, ranked 10th with 15m58.

In the women's 1,500m final, Na-yeon Park (Wonju City Hall) ranked 5th with 4 minutes 14.96 seconds, and Yujin Kim (Gyeongsan City Hall) ranked 9th with 4 minutes 22.89 seconds.