Kim Woo-jin

Kim Woo-jin
Kim Woo-jin at the 2015 World Cup
nation	South Korea
birthday	June 20, 1992
Career
discipline	Archery
status	active
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × Asian Games medals 2 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 4 × 0 × 0 ×
last change: October 6, 2016

Kim Woo-jin ( kor. 김우진 ; born June 20, 1992 ) is a South Korean archer and Olympic champion .

Career

At the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou , Kim Woo-jin won gold both individually and with the team. In 2011 in Turin and 2015 in Copenhagen , he became world champion both individually and with the team.

Kim Woo-jin took part in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . Together with Ku Bon-chan and Lee Seung-yun , he won the gold medal in the team competition .

In the individual ranking he set a new world record with 700 points. He exceeded the record of his compatriot Im Dong-hyun , who had reached 699 points at the 2012 Olympic Games in London . In the subsequent knockout round , he was surprisingly eliminated in the second round against Riau Ega Agatha .

Web links

• Kim Woo-jin at the World Archery Federation

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reuters : USA make do with silver in men's team archery as South Koreans clinch gold. In: theguardian.com. August 6, 2016, accessed October 6, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Rio 2016: South Korean archer Kim Woo-jin sets first world record of Games. In: bbc.com. August 5, 2016. Retrieved October 6, 2016 . 
3. ↑ individual (FITA Olympic round - 70m) men results - Archery - London 2012 Olympics. In: london2012.com. August 11, 2012, archived from the original on December 6, 2012 ; Retrieved December 7, 2015 . 
4. ↑ Chris Wells: # 1 seed Kim suffers shock 2nd-round defeat in Rio. In: worldarchery.org. August 8, 2016, accessed October 6, 2016 . 

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, Woo-jin is the first name.