2025 KOREAN SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Sunday, March 23rd – Friday, March 28th
- Gimcheon, South Korea
- LCM (50m)
- Results (when available)
The 2025 Korean Swimming Championships began this week and already we saw some impressive performances as athletes try to notch their names onto the World Championships roster.
Racing in the men’s 100m freestyle, 18-year-old Kim Youngbeom blasted a new lifetime best of 47.96 to claim the top spot. out of the heats.
The performance represented the teen’s first-ever foray under the 48-second barrier.
Entering this competition, Kim’s PB rested at the 48.65 logged in the heats of the 2024 Junior Pan Pacific Championships. He ultimately won the gold there in Australia in a slightly slower outing of 48.66.
Olympic finalist Hwang Sunwoo remains the Korean national record holder in the men’s 100m free with this 47.56 from the 2020 Olympic Games. However, Kim joins Hwang as the only two Koreans ever to delve into the 47-range.
Kim becomes the 7th-best Asian swimmer of all time and is the sole sub-48-second swimmer in the world at the moment.
Of note, Hwang was 48.75 in the prelims.
2024-2025 LCM Men 100 Free
Youngbeom
47.96
| 2 | Thomas CECCON | ITA | 48.17 | 03/16 |
| 3 | Jamie Jack | AUS | 48.27 | 12/16 |
| 4 | Shaine Casas | USA | 48.31 | 03/06 |
| 5 | KATSUHIRO MATSUMOTO KATSUHIRO | JPN | 48.36 | 03/22 |
KB Financial Korea Swimming Championships
男子100Fr 予選
キム・ヨンボム 47.96
Kim Youngbeomは100mバタフライのコリアンレコードホルダー pic.twitter.com/0VDyd6ivFi
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GMOs are breeding monsters
Dudes stroke rate is so smooth and long might be the longest I’ve seen for someone in a long time
wouldve been 45 if his ears were in his cap
How tall is he?? He looks gigantic in the water.
Came here to say that, too! Looks like he’s at least 1.90m, maybe 1.95m.
196cm
216cm
https://en.namu.wiki/w/%EA%B9%80%EC%98%81%EB%B2%94(%EC%88%98%EC%98%81)
Damn, there’s man 4 on the Korean 4×2!
just as one supreme falls (uk), another rises (china and korea)… bob has a lot of work on his hands if the us men are to ever win this relay ever again
Looks like he didn’t breathe the first 25…
Bro is 6’7
Do Assians (at least eastern Assians like Japanese, Korean and Chinese) peak earlier in life?
huh
Idk. I’ll confirm with you when my life goes downhill.
lol good luck phrenologizing the us out of its comparative decline…
siobhan haughey and zhang yufei both collected multiple individual medals in their mid to late 20s… wang shun and xu jiayu had pretty electric meets at age 31 and 29 — while their american generational counterparts (dressel, fink, murphy) did not
What’s “Assians”?
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