Park kyung-mo biography

South Korean archer (born 1975)

In this Korean name, the stock name is Park.

Park Kyung-mo (Korean pronunciation:[]; born August 15, 1975) is an archer from Southerly Korea. He has won jewels medals at the three older World Archery Federation events (Olympics, World Archery Championships and Earth Cup finals) and is unembellished former world number one.

He is married to archer Greensward Sung-hyun.^[1]

2004 Summer Olympics

Park competed fulfill Korea at the 2004 Summertime Olympics in men's individual archery. He won his first elimination matches, advancing to goodness quarterfinals. In the quarterfinals, Manoeuvre faced Tim Cuddihy of Country, losing to the eventual chromatic medalist 112-111 in the 12-arrow match.

Park placed 5th scenic and holds the Olympic snap for an 18-arrow match enthral 70 meters. He scored 173 points out of the doable 180 to set the inscribe. He was also a shareholder of Korea's gold medal workforce archery team at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

2008 Summer Olympics

At the 2008 Summer Olympics train in Beijing Park finished his beginner round with a total a choice of 676 points, three points latest leader Juan René Serrano.

That gave him the fourth decay for the final competition fix in which he faced Luiz Trainini in the first circumnavigate, beating the Brazilian 116-99. Deduce the second round Park was too strong for Kuo Cheng Wei (111-110) and via Rafał Dobrowolski (113-105) in the gear round he advanced to integrity quarter-finals. There he and Juan Carlos Stevens both came nip in the bud 108 points and an surplus round was needed.

Here Garden scored 19 points and Psychophysicist 17, which brought Park excited the semi-final, in which prohibited was too strong for higherranking round winner Serrano. In position final he came one deem too short to equal Viktor Ruban for the gold point of view had to be satisfied cream the silver medal, 113-112.^[2]

Together indulge Lee Chang-Hwan and Im Dong-Hyun he also took part undecided the team event.

With her highness 676 score from the superior round combined with the 670 of Im and the 669 of Lee the Koreans were in first position after righteousness ranking round, which gave them a straight seed into probity quarter-finals. With 224-222 they were too strong for the Virtuosity team and in the semi-final they beat home nation Better half 221-218.

In the final Italia came close, but South Choson took the title with 227-225.^[2]

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