Hwang Sun-woo (; born 21 May 2003) is a South Korean swimmer. He is the 2024 World Champion in the men's 200m freestyle and won 6 medals in the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games.

Career

On 14 May 2021, he established the new Korean national record of 48.04 in the 100m freestyle and then followed up with a new World Junior Record in the men's 200m freestyle. In July 2021, he represented South Korea at the

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held in Tokyo, Japan. He was the flagbearer for South Korea together with Kim Yeon-koung. He competed in the 50m freestyle, 100m freestyle, 200m freestyle and 4 × 200m freestyle relay events. In the 50m freestyle heats event, he did not advance to compete in the semifinal. In the remaining freestyle heats events, he completed at rank 1 for 100m and rank 6 for 200m, allowing him to advance to compete in the semifinal. In the freestyle semifinal events, he completed at rank 4 for 100m and rank 6 for 200m, allowing him to advance to compete in the final. In the freestyle final events, he completed at rank 5 for 100m and rank 6 for 200m. In the freestyle relay event, the team did not advance to compete in the final. At the 2022 World Championships, Hwang won silver medal in the Men's 200-metre freestyle. In the final, on 20 June, he finished 1:44.47 In December 2022, he won gold in the Men's 200 metre freestyle event at the 2022 short course FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) with a time of 1:39.72, beating the previous Championship record that was set by Lithuania’s Danas Rapsys in 2018, as well as setting a new Asian record.

Results

Key: AS = Asian Record; NR = National Record; GR = Asian Games Record; CR = Championship Record, RS= Relay Spilt, MNR= Mare Nostrum Record

Personal best times

Key: AS = Asian Record; NR = National Record; GR = Asian Games Record; CR = Championship Record

Honours

Other

* 19th Korea Image Awards (2023) – Korea Image Budding Youth Award

References

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at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics (archived) *
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at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics {{DEFAULTSORT:Hwang, Sun-woo 2003 births Living people South Korean male freestyle swimmers Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic swimmers for South Korea Sportspeople from Suwon Swimmers from Gyeonggi Province World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) Medalists at the 2022 Asian Games Asian Games medalists in swimming Asian Games gold medalists for South Korea Asian Games silver medalists for South Korea Asian Games bronze medalists for South Korea Swimmers at the 2022 Asian Games Swimmers at the 2024 Summer Olympics 21st-century South Korean sportsmen