The three musketeers Kim Woo-jin (Cheongju City Hall), Kim Je-deok (Yecheon County Office), and Oh Jin-hyuk (Hyundai Steel), who jointly won the gold medal in the men’s team archery event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, will also work together at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games in September.
Kim Woo-jin received 8 points in the men’s recurve men’s final round of the 2023 national team evaluation match that ended at the Wonju Archery Field in Gangwon-do on the 21st, and took first place with 16 points by adding the points (8 points) from the first round of evaluation earlier this month.
Kim Jae-deok and Oh Jin-hyeok, respectively, placed 3rd with a total of 12 points and 4th with 11 points, earning a ticket to the Asian Games, which are given up to 4th. Lee Woo-seok (Kolon) is together with 13 points, 2nd place.
Kim Woo-jin, Kim Je-deok, and Oh Jin-hyuk jointly won the gold medal in the men’s team event at the Tokyo Olympics. The youngest, Kim Jae-deok, along with Ansan (Gwangju Women’s University) in the women’s division, won two gold medals in the mixed event.
They displayed their unchanging skills and won the Taegeuk mark once again after going through national team selection matches and evaluation matches that are said to be more difficult than the Olympics and Asian Games.
Lee Woo-seok participated in the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games as a soldier and won a silver medal in the individual event.
Ansan (Gwangju Women’s University), who won three gold medals in archery for the first time in the Olympics, finished second with a total of 12 points in the women’s recurve and will participate in the Hangzhou Asian Games.
Ansan won three gold medals in the individual, team, and mixed events at the Tokyo Olympics. She is the first to win three Olympic gold medals in archery. Even at the World Championships held in the same year, she won two gold medals in the team event and the mixed event, and she is the strongest.
Rookie Im Si-hyeon (Korea National University of Sport) took first place in both the first and second rounds and took first place in the women’s division with a total of 16 points.
Kang Chae-young (Hyundai Mobis) and Choi Mi-seon (Kwangju Bank) ranked 3rd with 11 points and 4th with 10 points, respectively, and boarded the Asian Games national team.
Kang Chae-young won a gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics (team event), and Choi Mi-sun won a gold medal at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics (team event).
In the compound men’s division, Kim Jong-ho, Choi Yong-hee (Hyundai Steel), Yang Jae-won (Army Army Sports Corps), Joo Jae-hoon (Hanul-Uljingun Archery Club) ranked 1st to 4th, Oh Yoo-hyeon (Jeonbuk Provincial Office), So Chae-won, Song Yun-soo, and Jo Soo-ah (Hyundai Mobis) 1st to 4th in the women’s division, heading to Hangzhou. 스포츠토토
The first to fourth places in the final evaluation match will participate in the Asian Games, and the third place will also participate in the World Championships held in Berlin, Germany in July and August.
As a result, the Korea Archery Association confirmed the final entry through a total of three selection matches and two evaluation matches for about seven months from October of last year.
Jang Young-sul, vice president of the Korea Archery Association, said, “Today, there are 156 days left until the Asian Games and 102 days until the World Championships. .Everyone is the national team. I hope we become one team and prepare. We have had a lot of trouble in the meantime.”