Sports climbing Lee Do-hyun wins bronze medal in Asian Games lead
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- Lee Do-hyun scored 38 points and won a bronze medal in the sport climbing men's lead final held in Nagoya, Japan.
- This is Lee Do-hyun's third Asian Games medal.
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The lead event is a sport climbing competition in which participants compete to climb a 15m high artificial rock wall as high as possible within a time limit.
(Nagoya = Yonhap News) Reporter Jang Hyeon-gu = Lee Do-hyun (Seoul City Hall, North Face) won his third medal in the Asian Games.
Lee Do-hyun received a score of 38 in the sport climbing men's lead final held at the Port Messe Exhibition Hall in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan on the 3rd, and won the bronze medal following Neo Suzuki (40+) and Satone Yoshida (38+, both of Japan).
This is Lee Do-hyun's third medal at the Asian Games, having won a silver medal in the combined event at the 2022 Hangzhou Games and a silver medal in bouldering at this event.
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 fully climbed to the last hold (handle). For example, if it is 38, it means that you have succeeded in the 38th hold, and if it is 38+, it means that you have succeeded in the 38th hold and made a valid move to move to the 39th hold.
The higher the number, the higher the ranking.
Noh Hyun-seung (Busan Shinjeong High School), who competed with Lee Do-hyun, ranked 7th out of 9 participating players with 26+.
