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08-12-2004, 09:24 AM
South Korean Sets Olympic Archery Record
Sung Hyun Park of Korea's women's archery team, pulls her arrows from the target after the Olympic ranking round in Athens, Thursday Aug. 12, 2004. She set a world record with a score of 682. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
August 12, 2004 07:01 AM EDT
ATHENS, Greece - South Korean Park Sung-hyun set an individual world record of 682 points Thursday during the ranking round of the Olympic archery competition. Park broke the 72-arrow mark of 679, set in May by Italian Natalia Valeeva.
The team of Park, Lee Sung-jin and Yun Mi-jin also set a world record of 2,030 for the 216-arrow ranking round. The mark of 1,994 also was set by South Korea, at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. Yun was a member of that team.
Lee was second in the competition with 675, and Yun was third with 673.
Jennifer Nichols of Cheyenne, Wyo., was the top American, finishing 19th with 638. Stephanie White-Arnold of Portland, Ind., was 36th with 623. Janet Dykman of El Monte, Calif., was 44th.
In the ranking round, each athlete shoots 72 arrows from a distance of 70 meters. The round determines the seeding for the single-elimination individual tournament, which starts Sunday at Panathinaiko Stadium.
The archery competition will be the first Olympic event at Panathinaiko, site of the 1896 Games. But the preliminary round is being held at an air force base.
The South Koreans dominate archery, having won every Olympic individual women's gold medal since 1984, including a sweep of the medals in 2000.
Park, who finished second at the 2003 world championships, is competing in her first Olympics.
Sung Hyun Park of Korea's women's archery team, pulls her arrows from the target after the Olympic ranking round in Athens, Thursday Aug. 12, 2004. She set a world record with a score of 682. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
August 12, 2004 07:01 AM EDT
ATHENS, Greece - South Korean Park Sung-hyun set an individual world record of 682 points Thursday during the ranking round of the Olympic archery competition. Park broke the 72-arrow mark of 679, set in May by Italian Natalia Valeeva.
The team of Park, Lee Sung-jin and Yun Mi-jin also set a world record of 2,030 for the 216-arrow ranking round. The mark of 1,994 also was set by South Korea, at the Sydney Olympics in 2000. Yun was a member of that team.
Lee was second in the competition with 675, and Yun was third with 673.
Jennifer Nichols of Cheyenne, Wyo., was the top American, finishing 19th with 638. Stephanie White-Arnold of Portland, Ind., was 36th with 623. Janet Dykman of El Monte, Calif., was 44th.
In the ranking round, each athlete shoots 72 arrows from a distance of 70 meters. The round determines the seeding for the single-elimination individual tournament, which starts Sunday at Panathinaiko Stadium.
The archery competition will be the first Olympic event at Panathinaiko, site of the 1896 Games. But the preliminary round is being held at an air force base.
The South Koreans dominate archery, having won every Olympic individual women's gold medal since 1984, including a sweep of the medals in 2000.
Park, who finished second at the 2003 world championships, is competing in her first Olympics.