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Park Sung-Hyun

Park Sung-hyun
Medal record
Representing  South Korea
Women's archery
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2004 Athens Individual
Gold medal – first place 2004 Athens Team
Gold medal – first place 2008 Beijing Team
Silver medal – second place 2008 Beijing Individual
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2001 Beijing Individual
Gold medal – first place 2003 New York City Team
Gold medal – first place 2005 Madrid Team
Gold medal – first place 2007 Leipzig Team
Silver medal – second place 2003 New York City Individual
Silver medal – second place 2007 Leipzig Individual
Bronze medal – third place 2001 Beijing Team
Bronze medal – third place 2005 Madrid Individual
World Cup Finals
Silver medal – second place 2008 Lausanne Individual
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 2002 Busan Team
Gold medal – first place 2006 Doha Individual
Gold medal – first place 2006 Doha Team
Park Sung-hyun
Hangul 박성현
Hanja 朴成賢
Revised Romanization Bak Seong-hyeon
McCune–Reischauer Pak Sŏng-hyŏn

Park Sung-hyun (Korean pronunciation: [pak̚.s͈ʌŋ.ɦjʌn]; born January 1, 1983 in Gunsan, North Jeolla) is a world champion and former world number one archer from South Korea. She had held the women's world record for a 70m 72-arrow round, set at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, and won a gold medal with her team in both the 2004 and 2008 Olympics. She has the women's world record in a FITA Round with 1405 points.

Park represented Korea at the 2004 Summer Olympics, placing 1st in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 682, setting a world record that lasted for 11 years.

Park was on the gold medal team in the women's team competition.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Park finished her ranking round with a total of 673 points, six points in front of second placed Yun Ok-Hee. This gave her the first seed for the final competition bracket in which she faced Khadija Abbouda in the first round, beating the archer from Morocco 112-80. In the second round Park was too strong for Anja Hitzler (112-107) and via Elpida Romantzi (115-103) with a new Olympic Record in the third round she advanced to the quarter finals. There she had no problem beating Nami Hayakawa 112-103. In the semi final she was too strong for Kwon Un-Sil (109-106). In the final it was a close match for the gold, with her opponent Zhang Juanjuan scoring a 7 with the second arrow, while Park did not score lower than an 8. In the end Zhang took the gold medal 110-109.


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