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Korean archery, which conquered the Tokyo Olympics and world championships, entered the Asian Games representative selection competition next year. Existing representatives must also drill a needle hole from the origin.
This news is by Seo Dae-won.
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Korean archery, which had the best year with four gold medals at the Tokyo Olympics and swept all the sports at the World Championships last month, leaves behind the glory and runs for next year's Hangzhou Asian Games.
100 men and 96 women participated in the first round of national team selection for 2022, which started today (26th), and after the second and third rounds of next spring, and two self-evaluation matches, three men and three women from the Asian Games representatives will be finally selected.
The six existing representatives, including Ansan and Kim Je-deok, who won three medals at the Tokyo Olympics, started competing equally at the origin.
[Kim Je-deok / Tokyo Olympics 2 gold medals: It was not without a sense of pressure.
I think I will
go up one by one with more confidence and try to do my best.]
[Ansan/Tokyo Olympics 3 gold medals: I think that if we do what we have been doing, good results will come. As always, I'll just shoot roughly.]
On the first day, Kim Woo-jin took 1st place in the men's division and Jang Min-hee took 4th place in the women's division, and all six of the existing representatives started off smoothly.
Bobae Ki, who won two gold medals at the 2012 London Olympics, and Hyejin Jang, who won two gold medals at the 2016 Rio Olympics, who could not go to Tokyo, are aiming to return to the national team.
(Video editing: Kim Byung-jik)