In the dong-hyun

In the dong-hyun
In Dong-hyun at the 2012 Summer Olympics
nation	South Korea
birthday	May 12, 1986
place of birth	Chungju ,  South Korea
size	184 cm
Weight	100 kg
Career
discipline	Archery
society	Chongbuk Athletic High School
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 2 × 0 × 1 × Asian Games medals 4 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 4 × 2 × 0 ×
last change: August 5, 2012

Im Dong-hyun ( kor. 임 동현 ; born May 12, 1986 in Chungju ) is a South Korean archer .

Career

Chongbuk Athletic High School starts in Dong-hyun and has been among the world's best in its sport since the early 2000s. At the World Championships of the year in New York City , he won silver in the individual competition and gold with the team. In 2004 the archer started at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens , where he won gold with the team and was sixth in the individual competition. With a total of 687 rings he set a world record in one of the preliminary fights. Things went even better at the 2006 Asian Championships in Doha , when he won gold in both singles and with the team. The 2007 World Championships in Leipzig were just as successful for the South Korean . He was able to win gold both in the individual competition and with the team. He achieved another great success at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing by winning the gold medal again with the team. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London , he again set a new world record with 699 rings in the Ranking Round. In the subsequent finals, however, he failed in the round of 16 against the Dutchman Rick van der Ven . With the team he could previously achieve the bronze medal. In addition to the successes at major events, there are several wins and top placements at World Cup events.

The legend persists that Im is almost blind - a claim that the spectacle wearer (who shoots without glasses and contact lenses) never made it himself, but on the contrary denied it.

Web links

• In the Dong-hyun in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ individual (FITA Olympic round - 70m) men results - Archery - London 2012 Olympics. (No longer available online.) In: london2012.com. August 11, 2012, archived from the original on December 6, 2012 ; Retrieved December 7, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ First world record - the severely visually impaired hits best. In: sueddeutsche.de . July 27, 2012, accessed December 7, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Ralf Birkhan: From the myth about the blind archer at Olympia. In: derwesten.de. July 29, 2012, accessed December 7, 2015 . 

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Im is the family name here, Dong-hyun is the first name.