15-Yr-Old Kim Seung-Won Posts 27.71 Korean Record In Women’s 50 Back

2025 KOREAN SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS

• Sunday, March 23rd – Friday, March 28th
• Gimcheon, South Korea
• LCM (50m)
• Recap #1/Recap #2/Recap #3
• Results

The 2025 Korean Swimming Championships saw two national records bite the dust on its penultimate night of action.

We reported how 19-year-old Yoon Ji-hwan busted out a new lifetime best of 24.48 to top the men’s 50m backstroke podium, qualifying for this summer’s World Championships in the process.

The teen’s performance surpassed his own previous record of 24.67 to become the #2 performer in the world thus far this season.

But the women’s 50m backstroke also saw its Korean standard go down.

Kim Seung-won, just 15 years of age, cracked a new lifetime best of 27.71 to grab the gold.

She beat the field by over a second, with Lee Eun-ji clocking 28.73 as the runner-up and Park Han-byeol earning the bronze in 28.83.

Kim’s performance overtook her own previous national record of 27.84 produced at the Korean National Junior Sports Festival last May.

Her outing tonight doubled up on her 100m backstroke victory, with the teen qualifying for the 2025 World Championships in both events.

Kim’s 27.71 record inserts her into the list of all-time Asian performers in slot #9 and she ranks 7th in the world this season.