On the morning of the 11th (local time), the closing day of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, the Korea Sports Federation will hold a press conference at Korea House in Paris, France, to announce the Most Valuable Player (MVP) of the Korean team.
The KOC will select the MVP by holding a vote among journalists who covered the Olympics in Paris.
KFA President Lee Ki-heung chose one male and one female MVP for the first time at an international championships to reward the team’s performance at the Hangzhou Asian Games last year to boost morale.
Swimming management Kim Woo-min (Gangwon-do Province) and archery’s Lee Im-hyun (Korea Gymnastics Federation), who won three Asian Games titles, were voted MVP and received a cash prize of 30 million won each.
In an exclusive interview with Yonhap News Agency on the opening day of the Paris Games, Lee promised to select a team MVP again.
Based on their performances, archers who swept all five events for the first time are strong candidates for MVP.
Kim Woo-jin (Cheongju City) swept the men’s individual, team, and mixed events.
Kim also collected three gold medals in the women’s individual, team and mixed events to become the first Korean archer to win three gold medals at two consecutive international championships.
Im and Kim also became the second and third Korean archers to win three gold medals at a single Olympics, joining An An (Gwangju Bank), the first archery triple winner at Tokyo 2020.
Kim Woo-jin won his fifth Olympic gold medal, surpassing Kim Soo-ning (archery), Jin Jong-oh (shooting) and Jeon Yi-kyung (short track – four gold medals) to set a new record for the most gold medals won by a South Korean athlete at an Olympic Games.
Oh Sang-wook (Daejeon Metropolitan Government), who became the first Korean male athlete to win gold in the individual fencing sabre event and led the team to a double gold medal, is also a strong contender for male MVP.
High school sharpshooter Ban Hyo-jin (16-Daegu Chego), who won the women’s 10-meter air rifle to become the youngest gold medalist in history and Korea’s 100th gold medalist at the Summer Olympics, is another surprise Women’s MVP contender.
Ahn Se-young (Samsung Life Insurance), the first Korean to win the women’s singles badminton title at the Olympics in 28 years, could also be in the running for MVP. 파워볼게임