Kim Jo-sun

Kim Jo-sun
nation	South Korea
birthday	June 13, 1975
Career
discipline	Archery
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 0 × World championships 2 × 0 × 2 × Asian Games 2 × 0 × 0 ×

Kim Jo-sun ( kor. 김조순 ; born June 13, 1975 ) is a former South Korean archer and Olympic champion .

Career

Kim won her first major title at the 1995 World Championships in Jakarta when she became world champion with the team. 1997 followed another title win with the team in Victoria , where Kim also secured bronze in the individual. In 1999 she won bronze again in Riom .

At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta , she was together with Kim Kyung-wook and Yoon Hye-young Olympic champion in the team competition. In the individual, she finished sixth after losing to the later bronze medalist Olena Sadownytscha in the quarterfinals .

Two years later, Kim won gold medals in both individual and team competitions at the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok .

Web links

• Kim Jo-sun at the World Archery Federation
• Kim Jo-sun 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. Kim is the family name here, Jo-sun is the first name.