Hwang Sun-woo

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Hwang Sun-woo

Personal information
Nationality	South Korean
Born	(2003-05-21) 21 May 2003 (age 21) Suwon, South Korea
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)[1]
Weight	76 kg (168 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Freestyle
Medal record Men's swimming Representing  South Korea World Championships (LC) 2024 Doha 200 m freestyle 2022 Budapest 200 m freestyle 2024 Doha 4×200 m freestyle 2023 Fukuoka 200 m freestyle World Championships (SC) 2021 Abu Dhabi 200 m freestyle 2022 Melbourne 200 m freestyle Asian Games 2022 Hangzhou 200 m freestyle 2022 Hangzhou 4 x 200 m freestyle 2022 Hangzhou 4 × 100 m medley relay 2022 Hangzhou 4 × 100 m freestyle relay 2022 Hangzhou 4×100 m mixed medley 2022 Hangzhou 100 m freestyle
Korean name
Hangul	황선우
Revised Romanization	Hwang Seon-u
McCune–Reischauer	Hwang Sŏnu

Hwang Sun-woo (Korean: 황선우; born 21 May 2003) is a South Korean swimmer.^[2] He is the 2024 World Champion in the men's 200m freestyle and won 6 medals in the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games.^[3]

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^[4] in the men's 200m freestyle.^{[citation needed]}

In July 2021, he represented South Korea at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan. He was the flagbearer for South Korea together with Kim Yeon-koung.^[5] 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.^[6] 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.^[7][8] 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.^[9][10] In the freestyle final events, he completed at rank 5 for 100m and rank 6 for 200m.^[11][12] In the freestyle relay event, the team did not advance to compete in the final.^[13]

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.^[14][15]

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

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

• 19th Korea Image Awards (2023) – Korea Image Budding Youth Award^[16]

• Hwang Sun-woo at World Aquatics
• Hwang Sun-woo at SwimRankings.net
• Hwang Sun-woo at Olympics.com
• Hwang Sun-woo at Olympedia
• Hwang Sun-woo at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics (archived)
• Hwang Sun-woo at the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games (archived)
• Hwang Sun-woo at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics