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Lim Jong-hoon (29, Korea Exchange) and Shin Yoo-bin (22, Korean Air) won the gold medal.
Lim Jong-hoon and Shin Yoo-bin won 3-2 (7-118-111-111-11-8 11-8 11-8) after a close game in the first round of the mixed doubles finals (the round of 16) of the 79th General Championship at Jecheon Gymnasium in Chungcheongbuk-do on the 24th.
Lim Jong-hoon and Shin Yoo-bin, who faced a crisis by giving up one or two games, took three or four games to bring the game to square one. In the last five games, he allowed the first four points down, but after tying the opponent to five points, he took the lead and finished the game 11-8.
Lim Jong-hoon and Shin Yoo-bin joined the semifinals by beating Park Chan-hyuk and Lee Da-eun (Korean Racing Authority) with a game score of 3-1 (11-7 11-9 11-13 11-5) in the following quarterfinals.
The two will compete with Park Kang-hyun and Lee Da-eun (Mirae Asset Securities) to advance to the finals.
This is the first time that Lim Jong-hoon and Shin Yoo-bin, who collaborated to win the Hong Kong mixed doubles title at the World Table Tennis (WTT) in December last year, participated in the overall championship, the most prestigious in Korea.
Lim Jong-hoon finished second in the mixed doubles with Lee Eun-hye (Korean Air) at the 2019 general championship. Shin Yu-bin won a silver medal with Cho Dae-sung (Hwaseong City Corporation) at the 2018 competition when she was a 14-year-old middle school student. Shin Yoo-bin, who joined Korean Air, an unemployment team, without going to high school in 2020, has not participated in the overall championship due to his schedule overlapping with international competitions.
Im Jong-hoon - Shin Yu-bin Cho is also a bronze medalist in mixed doubles at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
After the game, Lim Jong-hoon and Shin Yoo-bin said, "Domestic players are so good at doubles. "It's more difficult than playing with foreign players," he said. "The goal is to make good content every game while sticking to the process rather than winning."
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