South Korean pentathlete Seong Seung-min claimed her country's first gold medal at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games (held across the Aichi Prefecture region of central Japan), winning the women's individual modern pentathlon with 1,492 points at Anjo Sports Park on 20 September. Seong, a former world champion and Olympic bronze medallist, dominated the field from start to finish across the five disciplines — fencing, swimming, obstacle course racing, and laser run — ending a four-consecutive-gold-medal streak by China, whose athletes Zhang Mingyu and Wu Xiyao took silver and bronze. The victory adds to Seong's already historic résumé: she won the 2024 World Modern Pentathlon Championships as the first South Korean woman to claim that title, and at the Paris Olympics became the first Asian female pentathlete to win an Olympic medal.