‘4 gold, 4 silver, 3 bronze’, total of 11 medals won... Won overall top for second consecutive year
Han Hyun-soo wins MVP Award and Coach Kim Ik-hee wins Best Coach Award
Dominating collegiate wrestling by winning overall first place for third consecutive year in the fall national wrestling championships
[March 21, 2019]
<YU wrestling that won overall first place in the group division at the 37th Chairperson’s National Wrestling Championships>
The YU wrestling team (Coach Kim Ik-hee) won overall first place in the group division of the 37th Chairperson’s National Wrestling Championships. This is the second straight year to come out on top.
At the collegiate freestyle division held at the Cheorwon Gymnasium in Gangwon-do from March 12 to 14, the YU wrestling team swept a total of 11 medals – 4 gold, 4 silver, 3 bronze, and took first place in the group division.
Gong Ji-min (19, Sports Science sophomore, 61kg), Moon Jin-woo (19, Sports Science sophomore, 74kg), Kim Yong-hak (21, Special Physical Education junior, 79kg), and Han Hyun-soo (20, Special Physical Education junior, 125kg) won gold medals, Kim Ha-nel (22, Sports Science senior, 65kg), Nam Dae-hyun (18, Sports Science freshman, 79kg), Park Yong-min (18, Sports Science freshman, 86kg), and Shin Gi-sung (18, Special Physical Education freshman, 97kg) won silver medals, while Ahn Jae-yong (21, Sports Science senior, 57kg), Jang Hyun-woo (19, Sports Science freshman, 65kg) and Park Chang-hwan (20, Special Physical Education junior, 92kg) won bronze medals.
In particular, freshmen who just began their college life also won medals, thus continuing the tradition as the top college wrestling team. Han Hyun-soo, who won the gold medal in the 125kg division won the MVP award and Coach Kim Ik-hee of the YU wrestling team won the best coach award for the second consecutive year.
The YU wrestling team also was ranked first by sweeping a total of eightfold way medals including 5 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze at the 29th Fall National Wrestling Championships in December of last year. They won first place for the third consecutive time in this tournament as well, showing their dominance in collegiate wrestling.
Coach Kim Ik-hee, who is leading the glory days of the YU wrestling team, said, “As we have been performing well every year, outstanding students are naturally coming to the YU wrestling team. It is very encouraging to see not only sophomores, juniors and seniors do well, but also freshmen wrestlers doing superbly.” He added, “We will not stay satisfied with our achievements thus far, but continue to train hard to continue this legacy and golden age of YU wrestling.”
