Twenty-year-old South Korean swimmer Kim Young-beom claimed gold in the men's 50-metre freestyle at the Asian Games (a pan-continental multi-sport event held every four years) in Tokyo on Monday, setting a new Asian Games record of 21.66 seconds — a mark he had already broken once that same day after posting 21.71 seconds in the morning heats. South Korea added four further bronze medals through Yoon Ji-hwan and Kim Seung-won in the 50-metre backstroke events and the men's 4x200-metre freestyle relay team, which finished a distant third behind a record-breaking Chinese squad, falling short of its own 2023 gold in that event. After two days of competition, South Korea holds eight swimming medals in total and is chasing its record haul of 22 medals from the 2023 Asian Games, with the swimming programme continuing through Friday.