Shin Yu-bin celebrates after scoring in the bronze medal match of the women’s singles at the 2024 Paris Olympics held at Arena Paris Sud 4 in Paris, France on the afternoon of the 3rd (local time). Shin Yu-bin lost to Japan’s Hayata Hina 2-4 (11:9/11:13/10:12/7:11/12:10/7:11).
“I will play brightly again without getting tired, as there is still the team event left.”
This is what ‘Ppyak-ee’ Shin Yu-bin (20) said after finishing 4th in the women’s singles table tennis event at the Paris Olympics. Shin Yu-bin lost 2-4 (11-9, 11-13, 10-12, 7-11, 12-10, 7-11) to Hayata Hina (24, Japan) in the bronze medal match held at South Paria Arena 4 in Paris, France on the 3rd. No Korean table tennis player has won an Olympic medal in singles since Ryu Seung-min (42) won gold in the men’s singles and Kim Kyung-ah (47) won bronze in the women’s singles at the 2004 Athens Games.
Shin Yu-bin, who won a bronze medal in the mixed doubles event with Lim Jong-hoon (27) at this tournament, will continue her medal hunt by competing in the team event with Jeon Ji-hee (32) and Lee Eun-hye (29) starting on the 5th. The Korean women’s table tennis team has not won a medal in the team event since the bronze medal at the 2008 Beijing Games, when the team event was first adopted as an official Olympic event. If the Korean table tennis team wins a medal in the women’s team event for the first time in 16 years, Shin Yu-bin will become the first Korean table tennis player in 32 years to win a multi-medalist in the Olympics, following Kim Taek-soo (54) and Hyun Jung-hwa (55), who won medals in both the men’s and women’s singles and doubles at the 1992 Barcelona Games.
The Olympic table tennis team event, which determines the medalist through a round of 16, is played with a total of five matches, with the first team to win three matches winning. Only the first match is doubles, and the remaining four are singles. Since three players can play up to five matches, if they play doubles, they can only play one singles match. They have to decide which player to place in which position.
In that regard, Korea does not have much to worry about. The reason is that the “Hee-bin duo” Jin Ji-hee and Shin Yu-bin, who won the gold medal in women’s doubles at the Hangzhou Asian Games last year, are ranked second in the world. On the other hand, Brazil, Korea’s first-round opponent at this tournament, has never advanced to the second round of an Olympic team event. It is a situation where they can be relaxed, but Oh Kwang-heon, the head coach of the Korean women’s table tennis team, said, “Winning a doubles match and going in with a loss are completely different,” and expressed his intention to put Jin Ji-hee and Shin Yu-bin in doubles. Shin Yu-bin said, “It is not easy to prepare for the next match after losing a match. However, it is good that there is another chance. I will prepare hard,” he said.
According to the matchup, Korea will meet China in the semifinals. China has never missed an Olympic gold medal in this event. If Korea is pushed to the 3rd and 4th place match, it is likely to compete with Japan or Germany for the bronze medal. Japan is the team that won the silver medal at the Tokyo Games three years ago, and Germany is the team that eliminated Korea in the quarterfinals of the same competition. 카지노사이트