(Asiad) S. Korea's Jung Ha-eun wins gold in taekwondo poomsae

NAGOYA, Japan, Oct. 1 (Yonhap) -- South Korea's Jung Ha-eun won the gold medal in the women's taekwondo poomsae at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Thursday, giving the country its first taekwondo gold in the ongoing competition.

In the women's individual poomsae final at Toyohashi Gymnasium in Toyohashi, some 85 kilometers southeast of Nagoya, Jung won 9.3100 to top the podium.

Juliana Mykhail Candelaria of the Philippines won the silver medal with 9.1300 points and Thitaree Kaewolanwasu of Thailand won the bronze medal with 9.0400.

She became the second female gold medalist poomsae practitioner at the Asiad, following Cha Yea-eun who won the event's title at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games.

South Korea had won one gold and one bronze in the individual event and one silver in the team event since the discipline became an official Asian Games event in 2018.

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