The world’s best archery duo was again.
Kim Woo-jin (Cheongju City Hall) and Lim Si-hyun (Korea Gymnastics University) won two gold medals. Kim Woo-jin and Lim Si-hyun defeated Germany’s Michel Kroppen and Florian Unruh 6-0 (38-35 36-35 36-35) in the final of the mixed team event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Les Invalides Special Saro in Paris, France, on Sunday (Feb. 2). Korean archers won their second straight mixed event title. Kim Jeduk-Ahnsan won gold at the last Games in Tokyo, the first time the mixed event was included.
Kim Woo-jin and Kim Im-hyun earned their spot in the mixed event after topping the ranking round on Friday. Korean archery has traditionally awarded the mixed event to the male and female archers who perform best in the ranking rounds of major international competitions. In the ranking round, Im scored a world record and Olympic record total of 694 points. She fired 72 shots, with 48 of them hitting the 10-point bullseye. Twenty-one were extensions (10-point center).
As expected, Kim Woo-jin and Lim Shi-hyun won gold in the mixed event and then followed it up with a double in the team event. Woo Jin Kim won his third straight men’s team title, while Lim won his 10th straight women’s team title. Both athletes perfected their most demanding role, the No. 3 runner. Kim had previously won three team gold medals, but this was his first mixed event gold. It was his first Olympic gold medal outside of the team event. It was Kim’s fourth Olympic gold medal. He is tied with Jin Jong-oh of shooting and Kim Soo-ning of archery for the most Olympic gold medals by a South Korean. Im has already won two gold medals in his first Olympics.
Kim Woojin and Lim Shi Hyun had an unexpectedly difficult time reaching the final. In the round of 16, they came from behind to win. They defeated Chinese Taipei’s Lei Jen-Ying-Dai Yeou-Hsuan 5-4 (37-35 39-37 37-38 20-19) in a shootout. It looked like it was going to be easy after winning the first two sets, but the Chinese Taipei duo fought back to level the match at 4-4. They showed incredible focus in the shootout. Both Lim Im-hyun and Kim Woo-jin shot 10 points.
The quarterfinal was another upset. Italy’s Chiara Levagliatti-Mauro Nespoli won 6-2 (34-38 39-37 38-36 40-38). After a shaky start in which they dropped the first set, the pair won the next two to reach the quarterfinals. Her performance improved as the match progressed. The fourth-place match was another upset. She defeated India’s Ankita Bhakat-Diraj Bommadevara 6-2 (36-38 38-35 38-37 39-38). After dropping the first set, she fought back to win the next four games and reach the final.
Their final opponent was Germany. The Germans defeated Colombia, Mexico, and the United States to reach the final. They struggled, with not a single match winning more than six points in the set score. However, the team’s resilience made it to the final, so it was hard to take them lightly.
Set 1, it didn’t start well. Lim scored eight points. After that, he recovered. It was a 10-10-10 run, including two 10-point shots from Kim Woo-jin. The 38 points sealed the victory early. Germany shot 8-9-9-9. 38-35, South Korea wins.
Set 2, Germany faltered. They scored 8-9 points. It was Korea’s turn, and Im Yeon-hyun continued 온라인카지노사이트 the 10-point relay. Kim Woo-jin had nine points. Germany shot 9 points in all. 35 points. Lim Tem-hyun fired eight points, but Kim Woo-jin finished with nine. 36-35. 4-0 set lead.
Set 3, Germany scored the first 8-10 points. Lim also scored eight points. Kim Woo-jin scored 9 points to catch up. Germany finished with 7-10 points and 35 points. Lim scored 9 points and got 26 points. Woojin Kim scored 10 points, including a 10-point run to win 36-35.
After winning the team event and the mixed event, Kim Woo-jin and Lim Im-hyun will now go for the triple crown.
Kim has won nine gold medals at the World Championships, three at the Asian Games and two at the Olympics. Even more impressively, he has qualified for the Olympics three times before Paris. It is often said that making the Korean Olympic team is harder than winning an Olympic gold medal. Ahn San, who won three gold medals at the last Games in Tokyo, also failed to make the cut, a feat that only four other archers in Korea’s storied archery history have accomplished, including Kim Soo-ning, Jang Yong-ho and Lim Dong-hyun. After winning gold in the team event, Kim Woo-jin broke the jinx with a gold medal in the mixed event, and now she’s aiming to win gold in the individual event. In particular, Kim has been in top form in the round of 64 and round of 32 of the individual competition, firing 18 shots and hitting 15 of them for 10 points.
Kim won three medals at last year’s Hangzhou Asian Games. She swept the individual, team, and mixed gold medals. It had been 37 years since an archer had won a triple at an Asian Games. She’s looking to build on her momentum and go for a triple at the Olympics. She has a chance to accomplish the unprecedented feat of winning two gold medals in a row at an international event. Lim hasn’t hidden his dream of winning the Olympic triple, which was accomplished by Ansan (Gwangju Bank) at the last Tokyo Games. “I’m grateful for the opportunity to challenge myself,” he said after the ranking round. I will do my best to seize the opportunity,” he said after the ranking round. Although his performance has been a bit shaky compared to expectations, his focus remains the same. There is a great chance that he will be a force to be reckoned with in the individual competition.
With Kim Woo-jin and Lim Si-hyun’s predictable gold medal victory, South Korean archery is now within striking distance of its goal of winning the entire event. The two remaining gold medals are in the men’s and women’s individual events. The chances are good. Women’s archery has been so dominant that it has won 10 individual gold medals in 11 Olympics. The men have also won two gold medals in the last three Games. All six Korean archers in the men’s and women’s individual events advanced to the round of 16. This is the first time since Rio 2016 when the set system was introduced.