Korean women's archery has built a feat of winning 9 consecutive Olympic team events.
The women's archery team consisting of Kang Chae-young (Hyundai Mobis), Jang Min-hee (Incheon University), and Ansan (Gwangju Women's University) competed in the women's team event at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at Yumenoshima Park, Tokyo, Japan, in the final of the women's team event, Kseniya Perova, Yelena Osipova, and Spetlana Gombo. They defeated the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC), which teamed up with Eva, 6-0 (55-54 56-53 54-51).
Korean archery has won all gold medals from the 1988 Seoul Olympics, when the first team archery event was introduced to the Olympics, to this event, achieving nine consecutive victories in this event.
For more than 30 years, Korea's women's archery is the third time a country has monopolized an Olympic gold medal in a specific event in nine consecutive competitions.
So far, in the Olympic archery event alone, she has won 25 gold medals, surpassing the short track track track record (24) and regaining the status of Korea's 'most successful event'.
For the first time in 25 years since the 1996 Atlanta Games, the women's team was made up of only athletes who had no Olympic experience, but they took the top spot in the world.
In the mixed team event held yesterday (24th), Ansan, who collaborated with Kim Je-deok (Gyeongbuk Il High) to win the championship, also won a gold medal in the team event, becoming the first among the players participating in this tournament to win '2 gold medals'.