Park Sung-hyun (archer)

Park Sung-hyun

Personal information
Born	(1983-01-01) 1 January 1983 (age 41) Incheon, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea
Height	172 cm (5 ft 8 in)[1]
Sport
Sport	Archery
Event	Recurve archery
Medal record Representing  South Korea Women's archery Olympic Games 2004 Athens Individual 2004 Athens Team 2008 Beijing Team 2008 Beijing Individual World Championships 2001 Beijing Individual 2003 New York City Team 2005 Madrid Team 2007 Leipzig Team 2003 New York City Individual 2007 Leipzig Individual 2001 Beijing Team 2005 Madrid Individual World Cup Final 2008 Lausanne Individual Asian Games 2002 Busan Team 2006 Doha Individual 2006 Doha Team Summer Universiade 2003 Daegu Team 2003 Daegu Individual
Korean name
Hangul	박성현
Hanja	朴成賢
Revised Romanization	Bak Seong-hyeon
McCune–Reischauer	Pak Sŏng-hyŏn

Park Sung-hyun (Korean: 박성현; Hanja: 朴成賢; born 1 January 1983) is an archer from South Korea who competed in two Olympic Games, winning three gold medals. Park made her international archery debut in 2001, winning the women's recurve title at that year's World Archery Championships. Her Olympic debut came at the 2004 Summer Olympics, where she won gold medals in both the women's individual and women's team events. She won two further medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics, achieving her third Olympic gold in the women's team event before earning the silver medal as the runner-up in the women's individual event.

During her career Park achieved success in a variety of international competitions. She was the first South Korean archer to achieve gold medals at the Olympics, the World Championships, the Asian Games, and the Asian Championships.^[2] She was the first recurve archer to post at least 1,400 points in a 144-arrow round, and was from 2004 to 2015 the world record holder for the women's 72-arrow round. In 2016 the World Archery Federation named her as the greatest Olympic archer of the 21st century and the third greatest archer of all time.^[3]