Seo Hyang-soon (Korean: 서향순; Hanja: 徐香順; RR: Seo Hyang-sun, born July 8, 1967) is a female South Korean archer and Olympic champion. She competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, where she won an individual gold medal at the age of seventeen.[1][2] She became Korea's first female gold medalist, and its fifth gold medalist overall.[3]
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Women's archery | ||
Representing  South Korea
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| Olympic Games | ||
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1984 Los Angeles | Individual |
| World Championships | ||
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1985 Seoul | Team |
She moved to the United States in 2004, where she teaches Olympic Recurve archery at her own archery school (HSS Sports Academy) in Irvine, California.[4] Her husband is Park Kyung-ho, who won a gold medal in judo at the 1986 Asian Games. They have three children, their eldest daughter, Park Seong-min (박성민) is a professional golfer.[3]
References
edit- ^ "1984 Summer Olympics – Los Angeles, United States – Archery" Archived 2008-08-27 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on April 13, 2008)
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Seo Hyang-Sun". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2016-12-04. Retrieved 2019-10-06.
- ^ a b "아빠는 유도 금 엄마는 양궁 금 딸은 미국 주니어 골프 챔프" (in Korean). JungAng Ilbo. Retrieved 2019-10-06.
- ^ "Hyang Soon Seo". HSS Sports Academy. Retrieved 2019-10-06.
External links
edit- Seo Hyang-Soon at Olympics.com
- Seo Hyang-Soon at Olympedia
- Hyang-Soon Seo at databaseOlympics.com (archived)
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