From Seoul 1988 to Paris 2024. The South Korean women's archery team is on the verge of winning its 10th consecutive Olympic team title. They reached the final at Paris 2024 and are one win away from completing the feat.
The South Korean team of Lim Im-hyun (Korea Gymnastics University), Nam Soo-hyun (Suncheon City Hall) and Jeon Hoon-young (Incheon City Hall) defeated the Netherlands (Quinty Roepen, Gabi Slusser, Laura Vanderbinkel) 5-4 (57-53 52-53 57-58 59-51 <26-23>) in a shoot-off to advance to the final of the women's archery team event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on Monday at Les Invalides in Paris, France. This secured at least a silver medal for Team Korea.
South Korean women's archery is the undisputed world champion. From Seoul 1988, when the Olympic team event was first introduced, to Tokyo 2020 in 2021, South Korean women's archery has won nine consecutive titles in the event without missing a single Olympics.
However, their path to the final was not so smooth. They took the first set 57-53 to take a 2-0 lead, but lost the second set by one 토토사이트 point, 52-53, to tie the series 2-2. In the third set, Korea secured 57 points, but the Netherlands scored three 10-pointers in a 28-point span to lose another one-point game, 57-58, and fell behind 2-4.
Mentally shaken, the world's top-ranked Korean women's archers were stronger in a crisis. They scored 59 points in the fourth set, including five 10s and one 9, to hold the Netherlands to 51 points and tie the match 4-4.
Now it's a shootoff with three players shooting one shot each. Jeon Hoon-young shot 9 points, followed by Nam Soo-hyun's 10 points to effectively seal the victory. Im Seom-hyun shot a 7, but the game was already decided.
The final opponent for the women's archery team will be China, who defeated Mexico 5-3 in the quarterfinals. The Chinese women's archery team is a tough opponent. The Chinese, coached by Kwon Yong-hak, have won all three World Cups this year, defeating South Korea in the team final at the first and second editions. At the third edition, South Korea won the team event, but they didn't face China in the final.
It will be interesting to see if the Chinese, who have lost to South Korea twice this year, can beat the Koreans at the Olympics, where women's archery is their home turf.
