12 Sep

Korean Table Tennis, Women's Team Bronze Medal for the First Time in 16 Years... Shin Yu-bin's Second Medal [2024 Paris Olympics]

They won 3-0 over Germany in the 3rd place match and finished the tournament with 2 bronze medals.

The Korean women's table tennis team won the bronze medal in the Olympic team event for the first time in 16 years.

The Korean team, consisting of Shin Yu-bin (20), Lee Eun-hye (29), and Jeon Ji-hee (32), won the bronze medal by defeating Germany 3-0 in the 3rd place match of the women's team table tennis event at the 2024 Paris Olympics held at the South Paris Arena in France on the 10th.

With this, the Korean table tennis team won a medal in this event for the first time in 16 years since the bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Games. 파워볼사이트 추천

Shin Yu-bin, who previously won a bronze medal with Lim Jong-hoon (27) in the mixed doubles, added a second bronze medal to become a 'multi-medalist'.

It is the first time in 32 years since Hyun Jung-hwa (women's singles bronze, women's doubles bronze) and Kim Taek-soo (men's singles bronze, men's doubles bronze) won two medals in a single competition in Barcelona 1992.

With this day's medal, Korean table tennis finished the competition with two bronze medals in the mixed doubles and women's team event.

The first doubles match, played by Shin Yu-bin and Jeon Ji-hee, was the most competitive.

Shin Yu-bin and Jeon Ji-hee, who faced the Wan Yuan-Shan Xiaona pair, won the first and second sets in succession, but lost the third and fourth sets in succession, forcing a final set.

However, they showed their concentration in the final fifth set.

Shin Yu-bin and Jeon Ji-hee, who were once down 4-7, turned the match around with four consecutive points.

After that, they won the point after a long rally at 8-8 and succeeded in scoring consecutive points, and barely managed to grab the match.

They won the set score 3-2 (11-6 11-8 8-11 10-12 11-8).

Korea, which won the first and most important match, easily won the second and third matches.

In the second singles, Lee Eun-hye won a complete victory over Annette Kaufmann with a set score of 3-0 (11-8 11-9 11-2).

Korea finished the match in the third singles with Jeon Ji-hee.

Jeon Ji-hee, who faced Shan Xiaona, showed off her superior skills and won a complete victory with a set score of 3-0 (11-6 11-6 11-6).

When Jeon Ji-hee’s victory confirmed Korea’s bronze medal.

Jeon Ji-hee clenched her fists and Shin Yu-bin and Lee Eun-hye also smiled brightly and shared their joy.

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