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It's over when you say 'Oops'. The South Korean archery team won two gold medals, one silver and four bronze medals at the 2025 Gwangju World Archery Championships, which ended at Gwangju May 18 Democratic Park on the 12th. It is true that expectations were high. This time, the national team showed off its fierce skills enough to be called the Avengers. In particular, male and female recurve archers recorded positive results in international competitions in succession. The men's team of Kim Woo-jin (Cheongju City Hall), Lee Woo-seok (Kolon), and Kim Je-deok (Yecheon County Office) won the gold medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics. The women's team Ansan (Gwangju Bank) won three gold medals at the Tokyo Olympics and the women's team Si-hyun (Korea National Sports University) won three gold medals at the Paris Olympics. Kang Chae-young (Hyundai Mobis) made a great achievement in a big competition with her 'original ace'. Moreover, Korea will hold its first competition at home in 16 years since the 2009 Ulsan competition. A golden race was expected amid unilateral support from home fans.
It seemed like a good start. He showed off his hot fingertips in the compound preliminaries first. The men's and women's teams ranked first in all three team events in the preliminary round. However, it did not meet expectations. The only medal of the compound team was that Choi Yong-hee (Hyundai Steel) won the bronze medal in the men's individual event.
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Recurve was not much different. In the preliminary round, the men's and women's national teams were ranked first in all five events, including the men's and women's individual and team events. In particular, the mixed team event, in which the women's national team and Kim Woo-jin and Ansan were paired, set a new world record side by side. Some predicted that it would be possible to dominate all events. However, the Korean recurve won two gold medals, one silver and three bronze medals.
KBS commentator Ki Bo-bae said, `There is a difference between the Olympics and the World Championships. The number of participants is also different. It is by no means an easy competition to see." Nevertheless, it is evaluated that the trend of 'leveling' that has continued for several years has continued in this competition. Until now, Recurve has been chasing the U.S. and China in Korea's dominance. However, in this competition, Spain took two gold medals in the mixed team event and men's individual event. Japan, which had no medal at the Berlin event two years ago, won one silver and two bronze medals. Kang Chae-young, who won the gold medal in the women's individual event, competed in the world championships 10 years ago. It's really not easy to get a gold medal around your neck. "My skills have improved and become stronger than before, but other players have also improved and become stronger in the same way."
Jang Yeong-sul, vice chairman of the Korea Archery Association, said, "Half successful"." Compound and recurve both performed well in the men's and women's qualifying rounds. I've seen enough possibilities. But it falls when you say, "Oops" (in the tournament). We need to take this tournament as a mirror and prepare more perfectly."
This article was translated by Naver AI translator.
