
Beats rival Mori Ai to win first Asian Games gold medal in 8 years
Korean sport climbing's Seo Chae-hyun won the gold medal by defeating Japan's Mori Ai in the women's lead final at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games.
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Seo Chae-hyun won the gold medal by climbing the ladder in the women's lead final at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games.
(Nagoya = Yonhap News) Reporter Jang Hyeon-gu = Seo Chae-hyun (Seoul City Hall, The North Face), a symbol of Korean sport climbing, presented her country with its first gold medal in 8 years at the Asian Games.
Seo Chae-hyun received TOP in the women's lead final of the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games held at the Port Messe Exhibition Hall in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan on the 3rd, beating her rival Ai Mori (Japan, 47+) and winning the gold medal.
Lead is a competition to see who can climb the highest on a 15m high artificial rock wall within a time limit (6 minutes). It focuses on endurance and efficient distribution of power through 'route finding', which involves understanding the course in advance.
TOP means that you have completed the climb to the last hold.

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Seo Chae-hyun, a leading figure in Korean sport climbing, won a gold medal by recording a TOP finish in the women's lead final at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games. This is the first Korean athlete to win an Asian Games climbing gold medal in eight years since Chun Jong-won in 2018.

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