Medal record | ||
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Representing South Korea | ||
Women's archery | ||
Olympic Games | ||
2004 Athens | Individual | |
2004 Athens | Team | |
2008 Beijing | Team | |
2008 Beijing | Individual | |
World Championships | ||
2001 Beijing | Individual | |
2003 New York City | Team | |
2005 Madrid | Team | |
2007 Leipzig | Team | |
2003 New York City | Individual | |
2007 Leipzig | Individual | |
2001 Beijing | Team | |
2005 Madrid | Individual | |
World Cup Finals | ||
2008 Lausanne | Individual | |
Asian Games | ||
2002 Busan | Team | |
2006 Doha | Individual | |
2006 Doha | Team |
Park Sung-hyun | |
Hangul | 박성현 |
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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.