Korean Womens Basketball Wins Return Match
[Asian Games] Korean women’s basketball wins return match against North Korea… Bronze medal won
Jisoo Park made a great performance with 25 points, 10 rebounds, and 7 assists… Captain Kim Dan-bi explodes in the third quarter.
The Korean women"s basketball team held a "return match" against North Korea and won a bronze medal at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games.
The women"s basketball team, led by coach Jeong Seon-min, defeated North Korea 93-63 in the women"s basketball bronze medal game held at the Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium in Hangzhou, China on the 5th.
South Korea, which lost 58-81 in the semifinals against Japan two days ago, failed to advance to the finals and was pushed to the bronze medal match, met again with North Korea, whom it defeated 81-62 in the group stage on the 29th of last month, and won again, taking the bronze medal.
He left a legacy of ‘the beauty of Yujong’.
Korean women"s basketball, which won a silver medal at the 2010 Guangzhou Games, a gold medal at the 2014 Incheon Games, and a silver medal with North Korea as a unified team at the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Games, recorded 4 consecutive Asian Games appearances, including as a unified team. did.
North Korea"s women"s basketball had to be satisfied with its highest score, 4th place (1974, 1982, 2022), in women"s basketball at the Asian Games, excluding the unified North and South Korean team at the Jakarta Games.
South Korea, which clashed with North Korea for a medal for the first time in the Asian Games women"s basketball since 1974, lost 15-21 in the first quarter, giving up 8 points to North Korea"s 205cm center Park Jin-ah, born in 2003.
Park Jin-ah, who missed the semifinals against China on the 3rd but started as a starter on this day, stayed under the goal and steadily scored even though her legs looked somewhat uncomfortable.
Kim Yu-jung and Hong Ryeon-ah"s outside guns were also supported, and North Korea took the lead. Subdued.
Korea faced off with the twin guns of Park Ji-soo and Kang I-seul (KB), but the scoring was concentrated on them, and Park Ji-hyun (Woori Bank), who was supposed to solve the problem together, struggled, recording 3 fouls in the first quarter alone.
As soon as the second half began, North Korea balanced the score at 40-40 with Park Jin-ah"s direct goals and scores derived from him, but South Korea scored 19 points in a row to get away with the win at 42-42.
‘Captain’ Kim Dan-bi (Woori Bank) led the excitement by scoring 13 points, including 3 3-point shots, in the third quarter alone.
Korea scored the first point in the fourth quarter with an outside shot by Lee So-hee (BNK) to make it 64-44, a 20-point lead, and then the game was settled down without any major crisis.
Jisoo Park had a "double performance" with 25 points, 10 rebounds, and 7 assists, and Danbi Kim had 21 points and 6 rebounds.
In North Korea, Park Jin-ah contributed with 27 points and 9 rebounds, and captain Ro Suk-young, who was a member of the Jakarta tournament"s unified team, contributed with 20 points, 7 rebounds, and 5 assists.