Seo Chae-hyun, representing South Korea in sport climbing, secured her place in the finals of the bouldering event with a perfect score. This sets the stage for her bid to win two gold medals at the competition.
On September 30, at the Nagoya International Exhibition Center in Japan, Seo completed all four bouldering challenges on her first attempt during the women's semifinals of the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, earning a perfect score of 100 points.
Japan's Miho Nonaka, a silver medalist at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, finished second with a score of 99.8 points. Nonaka also completed all four challenges but took three attempts to finish the third one.
Additionally, Noh Hee-joo, who competed alongside Seo, secured her spot in the finals with a score of 69.8 points, finishing in seventh place after completing two of the four challenges. The women's bouldering finals are scheduled for October 1, with South Korea, Japan, China, and Singapore each advancing two competitors.
Seo Chae-hyun's primary discipline is lead climbing. She previously won a silver medal in the combined event at the 2022 Hangzhou Games, where the lead and bouldering events were combined. In this competition, however, the lead and bouldering events are separate, allowing Seo to aim for gold in both categories.
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