‘7 consecutive wins’ Woo Sang -hyuk over 2m33 and tied for first place in the 2025 record… I can see the summit of Tokyo
He roared again at the highest place. The world’s top -ranked No. 1 record (2m34) was also set.
Woo Sang -hyuk (29, Yongin City Hall) won the 2025 World Athletics Federation Diamond League Men’s high jump at the Stade Louis II Stadium in Monaco on the 12th (Korea time). Yan Stephella (Czech), who played 2m32, beaten.
The championship brought many things to Woo Sang -hyuk. It was ranked No. 1 in the record ranking this season. Woo Sang -hyuk, who was third before the tournament, surpassed Stephella (up to 2m33), and tied for first place with Olleh Dorochek (2m34, Ukraine).
This season, he continued undefeated march this season. Woo Sang -hyuk won the 2m31 in the Czech Indoor Championship, the first competition on February 9, and then at the top at the Slovakia (2m28), the World Championship (2M31), the Watgaberti Challenge (2M29) and the Gumi Asian Championships (2m29). Following the Roman Diamond League (2m32), he took the Monaco Diamond League.
In September, the Tokyo World Championships recorded 2m33. The Tokyo World Championships exceed the standard record from August 25, 2024 to August 24, this year. Woo Sang -hyuk had already secured the right to participate in the ranking point, but he wanted to confirm the right to participate in the standard record. Woo Sang -hyuk became the seventh player to pass the Tokyo World Championships, following Hamishi Kerr (New Zealand), Shelby McCuan (USA), Mutaz Esaba Sim (Qatar), Stefano Sopile (Italy), Rochk and Stephella. A total of eight people have secured tickets to Tokyo, including the Defending Champion (winning the World Championships in 2023) Wild Card, which received the wild card.
At the start of the 2025 season, Woo Sang -hyuk aimed to win the Nanjing World Indoor Championship in March, the Gumi Asian Championships in May, and the Tokyo Outdoor World Championship in September. After the Gumi competition, he said, “We will win all the competitions in the future. But the remaining tournament is the preparation process to win the Tokyo World Championship.” Woo Sang -hyuk is now preparing for the remaining one goal, the Tokyo World Championship, which will open on September 13.
By Nam Ji -eun, reporter myviollet@hani.co.kr
