Korean modern pentathletes pose for a group photo during a press conference at Jincheon National Training Center, North Chungcheong Province, Thursday. Yonhap
JINCHEON — Korean modern pentathletes said Thursday they will try to win the country's very first gold medal of this year's Asian Games in Japan.
All four gold medals in the sport — in the men's and women's individual and team events — will be awarded Sept. 20, the first day of the medal race at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, with the preliminary action set to commence Sept. 16, three days before the opening ceremony.
Korea will send four male and four female athletes: Jun Woong-tae, Seo Chang-wan, Lee Jong-hyun and Kim Young-ha for men; and Seong Seung-min, Shin Sumin, Jang Ha-eun and Kim Yu-ri for women.
Jun, the 2021 Olympic bronze medalist, won both the individual and team titles at the previous Asian Games in 2023.
