Korean girls’s archery ‘trusted and seen’ … Scored 10 consecutive Olympic staff occasion wins [2024 파리올림픽]

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Korea’s Im Si-hyun, Jeon Hoon-young, and Nam Su-hyun have a good time after profitable the ladies’s archery remaining towards China on the Paris 2024 Olympics held at Les Jean-Valides in in Paris, France on the twenty eighth (native time). Yonhap Information Korea’s girls’s archery staff wrote a brand new chapter in archery historical past by profitable its tenth consecutive Olympic staff occasion.

The ladies’s archery staff, consisting of Jeon Hoon-young, Im Si-hyun, and Nam Su-hyun, drew 4-4 with China within the remaining of the ladies’s archery staff on the ‘Paris 2024 Olympics’ shall be held at Les Valides in Paris, France at 0:11 on the twenty ninth (Korean time). After that, they received 5-4 after a shootout and remained within the lead for 10 consecutive Olympic Video games. Korean girls’s archery has dominated the competitors because the 1988 Seoul Video games, when staff competitions have been launched. Though the Olympics got here with the burden of shedding 10 video games in a row, the Korean staff confirmed an excellent efficiency from the beginning. Im Si-hyeon set a brand new world document by capturing 694 factors within the girls’s archery rating spherical on the twenty fifth. Nam Soo-hyun was second with 688 factors, and Jeon Hoon-young was thirteenth with 664 factors. South Korea, who have been first in mixed scores, have been seeded first and superior on to the quarter-finals.

The opponent within the remaining was China. For Korea, Jeon Hoon-young, Nam Su-hyun, and Lim Si-hyeon, and for China, Li Jiaman, Yang Xiaolei, and An Chuxuan stood in that order. Jeon Hoon-young began effectively by scoring 10 factors on each units, profitable the primary set by 3 factors. Within the second set, Nam Soo-hyun hit a disaster by scoring 8 factors, however Si-hyeon Lim saved 9 factors and received 2 factors, main China by 1 level. Nonetheless, after dropping the third and 4th units, the match resulted in a shootout.

The older sister, Jeon Hoon-young, took the lead by getting 10 factors, and Nam Soo-hyun obtained 9 factors. China scored 8 factors with the primary shot and hit the second shot within the center. In a state of affairs the place 10 factors have been completely vital, ace Im Si-hyeon’s final arrow was caught on the 10-point restrict. With China’s archer An Qixian capturing 9 factors, the consequence relied on two Korean pictures. Korea’s gold medal was confirmed because the judges acknowledged the shot as 10 factors.

Reporter Jo Soo-young delinews@hankyung.com