Park Sung-hyun (archer)
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Park Sung-hyun (Korean: 박성현; Hanja: 朴成賢; born 1 January 1983) is an archer from South Korea who competed in two Olympic Games, winning three gold medals. Park made her international archery debut in 2001, winning the women's recurve title at that year's World Archery Championships. Her Olympic debut came at the 2004 Summer Olympics, where she won gold medals in both the women's individual and women's team events. She won two further medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics, achieving her third Olympic gold in the women's team event before earning the silver medal as the runner-up in the women's individual event.
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Nationality | South Korean | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1983-01-01) 1 January 1983 (age 41) Incheon, Gyeonggi Province | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 172 cm (5 ft 8 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Archery | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Recurve archery | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hangul | 박성현 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hanja | 朴成賢 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Revised Romanization | Bak Seong-hyeon | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
McCune–Reischauer | Pak Sŏng-hyŏn | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
During her career Park achieved success in a variety of international competitions. She was the first South Korean archer to achieve gold medals at the Olympics, the World Championships, the Asian Games, and the Asian Championships.[2] She was the first recurve archer to post at least 1,400 points in a 144-arrow round, and was from 2004 to 2015 the world record holder for the women's 72-arrow round. In 2016 the World Archery Federation named her as the greatest Olympic archer of the 21st century and the third greatest archer of all time.[3]