Reading list: Woo Sang-hyuk to try for second straight Diamond Final...will leave next week
The wounds of one competition are healed by another.

Woo Sang-hyuk (28, Yongin City Hall), who was in tears after finishing seventh at the [Paris Olympics](https://outlookindiacasino.mystrikingly.com/), is back in action.

Woo will compete at the World Athletics Diamond League 2024 in Silesia, Poland, on Aug. 25 (local time).

After returning home on the 13th and taking a short break, Woo will resume training in Korea and depart for Europe next week.

After accumulating points at the Diamond League in Silesia on Sept. 25 and Rome, Italy on Sept. 30, Woo will compete at the 2024 Diamond League Final in Brussels, Belgium, on Sept. 14, where he hopes to win his second consecutive title.

Woo is the defending Diamond League Finals men's high jump champion.

However, the wounds are deeper now.

Woo burst into tears after finishing seventh in the men's high jump final at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Stade de France in Paris, France, on Nov. 11 with a height of 2 meters (27 feet).

He was considered a medal favorite and was determined to become the first South Korean track and field athlete to win an Olympic medal, so he was devastated by the unexpected result.

“I cry more when I think about coach Kim Do-gyun, who struggled more than I did,” Woo said, ”I just need to do what he planned, but he gave up his own life and dedicated himself to me.”

However, Kim Do-gyun, head coach of Yongin City Hall (Korea Athletics National Team), said, “Woo Sang-hyuk really struggled. It's unfortunate that he didn't get the result he wanted, but I hope he doesn't feel sorry for me.”

Kim didn't want Woo to feel helpless.

Before the wounds of the [Paris Olympics](https://outlookindiatoto.mystrikingly.com/
) could heal, he prepared for another competition, and Woo Sang-hyuk decided to compete in the Diamond League to keep his mind at ease.

In 2024, the Diamond League will be ranked by ranking points accumulated over 14 events, with the winner crowned at the 15th Brussels Final, a “championship” event.

The men's high jump is scheduled for six competitions: Xiamen on April 20, Suzhou, China on April 27, Monaco on July 12, London, England on July 20, Silesia, Poland on August 25, and Rome, Italy on August 30.

The first through eighth place finishers in each event will receive 8 to 1 ranking points. In the men's high jump, the top six ranking points earners will advance to the final.

To prepare for Paris, Woo competed in just one Diamond League event this year.

On July 12 in Monaco, Woo cleared 2.28 meters to finish third. He is currently tied for ninth place with six Diamond League ranking points.

The gap between him and Wang Zhen (CHN), who is in sixth place with nine ranking points, is three points.

If Woo adds a total of 10 points in Silesia on August 25 and Rome on August 30, he will easily qualify for the Diamond League Finals.

In 2023, Woo made up for his sixth-place finish (2.29m) at the World Championships in Budapest in August by winning the Diamond League Final (2.35m) in September.

He became the first Korean athlete to qualify for the Diamond League Final, let alone win it.

Despite not reaching the podium in Paris, Woo is one of the most decorated athletes in South Korean athletics history, having won the World Indoor Championships in 2022 (2.34m), finished second at the World Outdoor Championships (2.35m) and won the Diamond League Final in 2023 (2.35m).

Woo Sang-hyuk is determined to bounce back from the heartbreak of the Paris Olympics.

The rest of this year's Diamond League, the 2025 World Championships in Tokyo, the 2026 Asian Games in Aichi and Nagoya, and the 2027 World Championships in Beijing will be followed by the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.

Once again, she'll have the chance to climb the stairs and win an Olympic medal. [메이저사이트](https://www.outlookindia.com/plugin-play/2023%EB%85%84-11%EC%9B%94-%EB%A9%94%EC%9D%B4%EC%A0%80-%ED%86%A0%ED%86%A0%EC%82%AC%EC%9D%B4%ED%8A%B8-%EC%88%9C%EC%9C%84-%EC%B6%94%EC%B2%9C-%ED%86%A0%ED%86%A0-%EC%95%88%EC%A0%84%EB%86%80%EC%9D%B4%ED%84%B0-top15-news-332207)