KT sports team athletes win 7 medals, 3 gold, at Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games
In short
KT said 18 athletes from its sports teams competed as national team members at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games in five sports and won three gold, two silver and two bronze medals. The gold medals came in baseball, basketball and esports, while the women's hockey team, which supplied 10 of KT's 18 athletes, reached the semifinals. KT said the 18-strong delegation was its largest ever for a single Korean company, exceeding the 13 it sent to the 2022 Hangzhou Games.
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KT said its sports team athletes won three gold, two silver and two bronze medals at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, seven medals in total. The company said 18 KT Sports athletes competed as national team members in five sports — baseball, basketball, esports, shooting and hockey. [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]
The three gold medals came in baseball, basketball and esports. KT Wiz players So Hyeong-jun, Oh Won-seok and Park Young-hyun were part of the baseball team that won Korea's fifth consecutive Asian Games title, according to ZDNet Korea. Moon Jung-hyun of the KT Sonicboom was on the men's basketball team that took gold, and Yeon Jae-gil of KT Rolster won gold in the esports fighting game team event, the first Asian Games gold in that event, the report said. [ 1 ]
Women's hockey supplied the largest group of KT athletes: 10 of the 18, or half of the 20-player national squad, including captain Lee Yu-ri. KT said it was the most national team players the hockey team has sent to an Asian Games since it was founded, and the women's team reached the semifinals. In shooting, Park Ha-jun won silver in the 10m air rifle mixed team event and bronze in the men's team event, Jung Seung-woo took bronze in the men's 50m rifle three positions team event, and Jang Kuk-hee won silver in the skeet mixed team event. [ 1 ]
KT said the 18-strong delegation was the largest from a single Korean company, above the 13 it sent to the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games. KT founded its women's hockey team in 1984 and its shooting team in 1985 and now operates teams in five sports including baseball, basketball and esports. [ 1 , 2 ]
Lee Sun-joo, chief executive of KT Sports, said he was proud of “the athletes who showed outstanding ability on the international stage representing Korea,” and that “42 years” of support for various sports and athletes had produced meaningful results at these Games. He added that KT Group will keep working to strengthen competitiveness across sports and the base for developing athletes, according to the report. [ 1 ]
The outlets covered the result at different levels of detail. ZDNet Korea published the sport-by-sport breakdown and the executive's comments; Chosun Ilbo carried a summary with the delegation size, the sport list and the medal count; Korea Economic Daily headlined the three gold medals. [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]
Why it matters
The reports frame the medal haul as the payoff of KT's 42 years of running corporate sports teams, an argument the company makes itself. For readers, the coverage is a measure of how corporate sponsorship feeds national squads: KT said its athletes filled half of the women's hockey national team at this Games. The documents give no wider figures on the Games or on other companies' delegations.
Key facts
- KT said 18 of its sports team athletes competed as national team members at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games in five sports: baseball, basketball, esports, shooting and hockey. [ 1 , 2 ]
- Those athletes won three gold, two silver and two bronze medals, seven in total. [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]
- The three gold medals came in baseball, basketball and esports. [ 1 ]
- KT shooting athletes won two silver and two bronze medals across individual and team events. [ 1 ]
- Women's hockey contributed 10 of the 18 KT athletes, half of the 20-player national squad, and the team reached the semifinals. [ 1 ]
- KT said 18 athletes is the largest delegation from a single Korean company, above the 13 sent to the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games. [ 1 ]
- KT founded its women's hockey team in 1984 and its shooting team in 1985, and now runs teams in five sports. [ 1 , 2 ]
Confirmed by several sources
- KT sports team athletes won three gold, two silver and two bronze medals at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games. [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]
- Eighteen KT sports team athletes competed as national team members in five sports: baseball, basketball, esports, shooting and hockey. [ 1 , 2 ]
- KT founded its women's hockey team in 1984 and its shooting team in 1985. [ 1 , 2 ]
Still unclear
- The event-by-event medal breakdown, including which shooting athletes took which medals and the baseball, basketball and esports gold medallists This detail appears only in ZDNet Korea's report; the two business outlets carry only the aggregate medal count, so these specifics rest on a single source.
- Whether 18 athletes is the largest delegation ever sent by a single Korean company The figure is a company claim, reported by one outlet as what KT said, and is not independently confirmed in the other documents.
- When during the Games each medal was won No document gives dates or times for the individual medal events.