Seo Hyang-soon

Seo Hyang-soon
nation	South Korea
birthday	July 8, 1967
size	171 cm
Weight	67 kg
Career
discipline	Archery
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 ×

Seo Hyang-soon ( kor. 서향순 ; born July 8, 1967 ) is a former South Korean archer and Olympic champion .

Career

At the Olympic Summer Games in Los Angeles in 1984 , Seo Hyang-soon became Olympic champion in singles at the age of 17 with 2568 points, ahead of Li Lingjuan and Kim Jin-ho . This was the first ever Olympic gold for a South Korean woman. With 1293 rings, she also set a new Olympic record in the second round. She won the silver medal with the team at the 1985 World Championships in Seoul .

She is married to the former Judoka Park Kyung-ho , with whom she has three children. In 2004 the family moved to the United States , where Seo Hyang-soon opened an archery school in Irvine , California in 2012 and continues to run it to this day.

Web links

• Seo Hyang-soon at the World Archery Federation
• Seo Hyang-soon in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Profile on hsssportsacademy.com , accessed on March 20, 2017.

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Seo is the family name here, Hyang-soon is the first name.