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- Kim Soo-nyung (born April 5, 1971, in Chungcheongbuk-do) is a former member of the South Korean Olympic archery team in 1988, 1992, and 2000. She has earned a total of four gold medals at the Olympics, one for the individual event in 1988 and three for the team event in 1988, 1992 and 2000.
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She competed at the 1990 Asian Games winning a gold medal in the team event and a bronze in the individual. [3] She also won two consecutive individual and team world championships in 1989 and 1991. [2] In 2011, Kim was declared the Female Archer of the 20th Century by the International Archery Federation (FITA). [4]
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Jul 7, 2016 · It paid off: Soo-Nyung made the national team at 16, when she set a world record at 30 metres and won individual gold at the international ‘COQ France’ event, a forerunner of the Archery World Cup. The Korean Olympic recurve machine was already in place, taking two individual medals in Los Angeles, but was in full flow by Seoul.
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Four years later in Barcelona, Kim earned the silver medal in the individual event and took home another gold medal in the team event. With so little left to prove, Kim decided to retire. Despite being only 21 years old, she was already considered to be the greatest female archer ever.
In 1988, Kim won an individual and team gold medal in archery at the Olympics. Nicknamed “Viper,” she was also women’s individual and team world champion in both 1989 and 1991. Through 1990, she held every woman’s world record at all distances and the overall as well.
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Kim Soo-Nyung’s official World Archery biography, including results, medal list, news, photos, videos and more
Three of those individual medals belong to Kim Soo-Nyung who, with three team gold medals as well, is the leading medallist in modern Olympic archery. As a 17-year-old, Kim won the gold medal on home territory at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul and followed it up with silver four years later.
Aug 4, 2024 · Kim's victory gave South Korea a clean sweep of all five archery gold medals in Paris, as the archery powerhouse won the men's individual, men's team, women's individual, women's team and mixed team titles.
