Korea's gold-medal hopes span modern pentathlon to archery at Asian Games

Korea is expected to begin its gold-medal campaign at the upcoming Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games with the women's modern pentathlon on the first day of competition, an analysis showed Tuesday. The quadrennial Asian sports event, to be held on Japanese soil for the first time in 32 years, will begin its official 16-day run on Saturday, with 469 gold medals in 43 sports up for grabs. Korea will send more than 1,000 athletes and officials in 41 sports to the Asian Games, targeting up to 45 gold medals. According to an analysis by Yonhap News Agency, Korea may expect its first gold medal from Seong Seung-min in the women's modern pentathlon on Sunday, the first day of competition. Seong won the 2024 World Modern Pentathlon Championships to become the first Korean woman to win a world title in the event. At the Paris Summer Olympics later that year, she became the first Asian female pentathlete to win an Olympic medal. Multiple gold medals are expected in swimming from Monday, with Kim Woo-min and Hwang Sun-woo leading Korea's medal hopes in the men's 4x200-meter freestyle relay and 200-meter frees