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Park Si-Eun Claims Silver in Women's Breaststroke Swimming

Summary by The Korea Times
TOKYO — Park Si-eun grabbed a surprising silver medal in the women's 200-meter breaststroke swimming at the Asian Games on Thursday. Park finished with a new national record time of 2:22.69 at Tokyo Aquatics Centre, just 0.12 second back of the champion from Japan, Kotomi Kato. Swimming in Lane 5, Park led Kato by 0.72 second at the 150m mark, but Park came home in 37.41 seconds, compared to 36.57 seconds by the Japanese. Zhu Leiju of China got …

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[OSEN=Reporter Ko Seong-hwan] Park Si-eun (19, Gangwon Special Self-Governing Province Sports Association), the future of Korean women's breaststroke, won a surprise silver medal in the women's 200m breaststroke at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games. Despite this, tears would not stop flowing from her eyes. On the 24th, Park Si-eun recorded a time of 2 minutes 22.69 seconds in the women's 200m breaststroke final held at the Tokyo Aquatics Center …

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From third place to first, and the gold medal missed by just 0.12 seconds. Park Si-eun, Korea's leading female breaststroke swimmer who delivered a dramatic race, took home the silver medal in the 200m breaststroke at the Asian Games. On the 24th, at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games swimming women's event held at the Tokyo Aquatics Center in Japan, Park Si-eun...

(Tokyo=Yonhap News) Reporter Lee Dae-ho = South Korean female breaststroke hopeful Park Si-eun (Gangwon Special Self-Governing Province Sports Council) will... in the women's 200m breaststroke at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games...

·Seoul, Korea (the Republic of)
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연합뉴스-Yonhap News Agency broke the news in Seoul, Korea (the Republic of) on Thursday, September 24, 2026.
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