Korea continue archery sweep with mixed team gold

Olympic Sports

Korea continue archery sweep with mixed team gold

Published: 03 Aug. 2024, 00:09

JIM BULLEY
jim.bulley@joongang.co.kr

Korea's Lim Si-hyeon and Kim Woo-jin celebrate after winning the mixed team archery event at the Paris Olympics in Paris on Friday. [YONHAP]

Korea won their third gold medal in archery at the 2024 Paris Olympics on Friday, beating Germany in the mixed team gold medal match in Paris to keep the tournament sweep dream alive.

Korea’s Lim Si-hyeon and Kim Woo-jin beat Germany’s Michelle Kroppen and Florian Unruh 6-0 in the final taking a comfortable win for Korea’s third gold medal of the archery tournament. Germany’s silver is the country’s first ever in mixed team archery, with the United States taking bronze.

Both Lim and Kim now have two gold medals apiece from Paris, having also been part of the men’s and women’s team events where Korea also won gold. Both are also still active in their respective individual tournaments.

Korea has dominated Olympic archery for decades, with 30 gold medals — more than double the No. 2 United States' haul — as of press time Friday. Korea has never lost a women's or mixed team event, and the Olympic records in all five archery disciplines are currently held by Korean archers.

Korea won four of five available gold medals at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, missing out on only the men's individual title.

Mixed team was not competed prior to Tokyo, so if Korea is able to pull off a gold medal sweep in Paris, they will become the first team ever to win five archery gold medals at a single Olympics.

BY JIM BULLEY [jim.bulley@joongang.co.kr]