Natalia Valeeva is a naturalized Italian archer. She is a five-time Olympian and former world number one,and a native of Moldova,having represented the Unified Team,Moldova and Italy,at the Olympic Games of 1992,1996,2000,2004,2008 and 2012. She won the individual and team bronze medals in the 1992 Olympic Games.
He Ying is an archer from the People's Republic of China who has competed at three Summer Olympics.
Jin Jong-oh is a South Korean sports shooter who competed at the 2004,2008,2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics. The only individual four-time Olympic champion in shooting,he is the most successful individual shooter at the Olympics,being the only athlete to have won three consecutive Olympic gold medals in an event in shooting. He holds the world record in both 10 metre air pistol and 50 metre pistol and held the final world record in 50 metre pistol until Jitu Rai broke it in 2017.
Cho Youn-jeong is a South Korean archer. A two-time Olympic gold medalist,she achieved both her gold medals at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. She also won an individual silver medal at the 1993 World Archery Championships,as well as a gold medal with the team.
Lee Eun-kyung is a South Korean archer and Olympic champion.
Kim Jo-Sun is a female South Korean archer and Olympic champion. She competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta,where she won a gold medal with the South Korean archery team.
Deepika Kumari is an Indian professional archer. She won a gold medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in the women's individual recurve event. She also won a gold there in the women's team recurve event with Dola Banerjee and Bombayala Devi. She won individual gold in two of the three stages of the World Cup—one in Guatemala and another in Paris. In the process she also reclaimed the number one ranking after nine years at the Paris World Cup. Deepika won individual gold medals at the Archery World Cup Stage 1. She defeated Mexico by 5–1 in the final to win the gold in Paris.
Yun Mi-jin is an archer from South Korea who has won three Olympic gold medals and is a former world number one. She holds the Olympic record for a women's 18-arrow match,at 173 out of a possible 180. Yun set the record in Sydney,Australia at the 2000 Summer Olympics and matched it in 2004 in Athens,Greece.
Ki Bo-bae is a South Korean recurve archer and three-time Olympic gold medalist. She was the winner of the women's team and women's individual events at the 2012 Summer Olympics and of the women's team event again at the 2016 Summer Olympics,where she also took bronze in the individual competition. Her tally of four Olympic medals places her among the most decorated archers in Olympic history.
Kim Woo-jin is a South Korean archer specializing in recurve archery. He first held the world number one ranking in 2011. At the 2016 Summer Olympics,he set a world record in men's individual recurve archery as well as won the gold medal as a member of the South Korean men's archery team. He is a three-time world champion in the men's individual recurve event at the World Archery Championships.
Jung Dasomi is an archer from South Korea who specialises in recurve archery. Jung made a highly successful debut in international archery in 2011,winning medals at the World Archery Championships,Archery World Cup and Summer Universiade,and concluding the year as the number one-ranked female recurve archer in the World Archery Rankings. She won two further medals in 2014 at the Asian Games before a downturn in form relegated her from the national team. Jung did not return to international archery competitions until 2018.
Chang Hye-jin is a South Korean former recurve archer. A two-time Olympic gold medalist,Chang was the Olympic champion in both the women's individual and women's team events at 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. She is also a former number one-ranked recurve archer,having headed the World Archery Rankings between 2017 and 2019.
The women's individual archery event at the 2016 Summer Olympics was held from 5 to 13 August at the Sambadrome Marquês de Sapucaíin Rio de Janeiro,Brazil. One of four archery events as part of the 2016 Olympic catalogue of sports,it was the fourteenth time a women's individual competition was contested as a discipline at the Olympic Games. Forty different nations qualified for the event,sending a total of sixty-four archers to compete. The defending Olympic champion was Ki Bo-bae of South Korea.
The women's individual recurve archery competition at the 2018 Asian Games was held from 21 to 28 August at the Gelora Bung Karno Sports Complex Archery Field in Jakarta,Indonesia. It was the eleventh time the event was held as part of the Asian Games sports programme since the sport's debut in the competition in 1978. A total of 68 archers from 25 nations participated. Jung Dasomi of South Korea entered as the defending champion,having won the women's individual gold medal at the 2014 Asian Games.
Song Yun-soo is a South Korean compound archer. She began learning archery in 2011 and made her international debut in 2015.
So Chae-won is a South Korean compound archer.
Choi Bo-min is a South Korean compound archer and a former recurve archer.
Yang Jianping is a Chinese recurve archer.
Lai Fang-mei is an archer who represented Chinese Taipei.
An San is a South Korean archer competing in women's recurve events. She won three gold medals at the 2020 Summer Olympics,in the women's team,mixed team and individual events,becoming the first archer in Olympic history to do so at a single Games. An also set a new Olympic Record scoring 680 points at the Women's Individual Archery's Ranking Round. The previous record of 673 points was set by Ukrainian Lina Herasymenko at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
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