
South Korea's 15-year-old sailor Choi Ji-un won the gold medal in the boy's dinghy event at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games in Gamagori, Japan, becoming the youngest gold medalist in the country's delegation.
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Choi Ji-un, a 15-year-old sailor from South Korea, competed in the boy's dinghy event at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games held in Japan.
By Kim Boram
NAGOYA, Japan, Oct. 3 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's teenage sailor Choi Ji-un won the gold medal in the boy's dinghy event in sailing at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Saturday, becoming the youngest gold medalist in the country's delegation.
Choi finished first in the event's final at Kaiyoh Yacht Harbor in Gamagori, some 50 kilometers southeast of the main host city of Nagoya.
The 15-year old athlete became the youngest gold medalist in the South Korean delegation at the Asian Games.

15-year-old Choi Ji-woon won the gold medal in the sailing boys' dinghy race at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games held in Gamagori, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. It has been 12 years since the 2014 Incheon Games that a Korean yacht won a gold medal in the youth division of the Asian Games.

Korean athlete Choi Ji-woon (15, Daecheon Middle School) won the gold medal in the sailing men's and boys' dinghy event at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games. With a come-from-behind victory in the last two races, Korea's yacht won the Asian Games youth division gold medal for the first time in 12 years since the 2014 Incheon Games.

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