Joo Hyun-jung

Joo Hyun-jung
nation	South Korea
birthday	May 3, 1982
size	165 cm
Weight	59 kg
Career
discipline	Archery
society	Hyundai Mobis
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 × World championships 2 × 0 × 0 × Asian Games 1 × 0 × 0 ×

Joo Hyun-jung ( kor. 주현정 ; born May 3, 1982 ) is a former South Korean archer and Olympic champion .

Career

Joo won her first major title at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing . Together with Yun Ok-hee and Park Sung-hyun , she became an Olympic champion in the team competition. In the individual, she finished seventh after she lost in the quarterfinals to the later gold medalist Zhang Juanjuan .

The following year she managed to win the title at the World Championships in Ulsan , both individually and with the team.

Joo celebrated another medal success at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou with the gold medal in the team competition. In the individual qualification she finished fourth, but still retired early as the third best South Korean behind Yun Ok-hee and Ki Bo-bae .

Web links

• Joo Hyun-jung at the World Archery Federation
• Joo Hyun-jung in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Joo is the family name here, Hyun-jung is the first name.