On the 23rd (Fri), six national archery representatives who will participate in this year's Tokyo Olympics have been confirmed.

The world's strongest Korean archery is said to have a thick athlete and fierce competition in itself, so it is more difficult to pass the Olympics competition than to win an Olympic medal.Three men and women each of the Taegeuk archery who broke through the difficult gateway won all events in Tokyo twice in a row. To the challenge.




The women's national team consisted of all three new faces to compete in the Olympics for the first time, and the men's team consisted of Olympic gold medalists Jin-hyuk Oh (40 years old, gold medal in the 2012 London Olympics solo event) and Woo-jin Kim (29 years old, gold medal in the Rio 2016 Olympic team competition), and And it was made as a 17-year-old new player, Kim Je-deok.

The age difference between the two players Jin-hyuk Oh and Je-deok Kim is almost 23 years old.



"I'm going to go to the Olympics with my big brothers, so I'm reassuring and not worried. I'll practice hard so that I can shoot with confidence while being instructed by the'brothers'."


The expression'brother' like a dark'youngest brother' is kind.





Je-deok Kim, who started archery in the third grade of elementary school (Yecheon Elementary School in Gyeongbuk), was noticed early as'Shindong'.

In August 2016, when the Rio Olympics were held, Kim Je-deok, who was 12 years old at the time and 6th grade in elementary school, was introduced to the SBS program <The Gifted Discovery Team>. He also won after'shoot-off' to cover the game.



▶ August 2016 SBS <The Gifted Talent> YouTube video


"(Kim Je-deok) has talent, mentality, and such abilities, so I think it is the next-generation timber sense that will lead Korean archery."



This is the story of Myung Leader Moon Hyeong-cheol, who took the lead of the 2016 Rio Olympics archery team and commanded the first ever victory in all events.

Kim Je-deok, who was expected to be a large promising player with a natural sense, extraordinary spirit, and unshakable mentality, participated in the '2020 National Team Selection' in the fall of 2019 when he was in his 3rd year of middle school, but was eliminated in the aftermath of a shoulder injury.

Olympic participation had to pledge the next opportunity, but as the Tokyo Olympics were postponed for one year due to Corona 19, the opportunity came again, and the opportunity was not missed.


"Because I fell from the Tokyo Olympics representative selection, I gave up this Olympics and made up my mind to prepare for a domestic competition or the 2022 (Hangzhou) Asian Games. "



Kim Je-deok, born in April 2004, is currently a 2nd grader in high school (Gyeongbuk Il High) and is the 6th high school player ever to compete in the Korean men's archery Olympics.

Prior to Kim Je-deok, athletes Won-tae Choi and Ja-cheong Gu (L.A. 1984), Seong-su Park (Seoul, 1988), Jae-heon Jung (Barcelona, ​​1992), and Dong-Hyun Lim (Athens, 2004) competed in the Olympics as high school students.

When Kim Je-deok wins a medal at the Tokyo Olympics, he becomes the youngest Korean male archery medalist ever.

(For reference, Hyang-soon Seo, who was 17 at the time as a gold medalist at the LA Olympics in 1984, has the youngest medal record in Korean women's archery history.) Je-deok Kim is likely to be the youngest medal ever.

First of all, in the case of the men's team competition, where Kim Je-deok will be in harmony with his seniors, Korea showed off its ``extreme'' aspect with 4 gold medals and 1 bronze medal at the five Olympics in the 21st century. It would not be an exaggeration to say that I made a reservation.



Before joining the Jincheon Athletes' Village at the end of last year, I covered Kim Je-deok, who was training in her hometown of Yecheon. When I asked about her future goals and dreams, she answered like this.


"My dream is to win all the gold medals at the Olympics, Asian Games, and World Championships."




We cheer for the propaganda of the Tokyo Olympics by the 17-year-old Shingung Kim Je-deok, a 17-year-old boy running toward his dreams, and our Taegeuk archers.



(Photo = Courtesy of the Korea Archery Association)