Park Sung-hyun

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Medal record
Women's Archery
Olympic Games
Gold 2004 Athens Individual
Gold 2004 Athens Team
Asian Games
Gold 2006 Doha Individual
Gold 2006 Doha Team
Park Sung-hyun
Hangul:
박성현
Hanja:
朴成賢
Revised Romanization: Bak Seong-hyeon
McCune-Reischauer: Pak Sŏng-hyŏn

Park Sung Hyun (born 1 January 1983) is an athlete from South Korea. She competes in archery. Park holds the world record for a women's 70m 72-arrow round, with 682 points, set at Athens, Greece on 12 August 2004.

Park represented Korea at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She placed 1st in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 682, setting the world record. In the first round of elimination, she faced 64th-ranked Mansour May of Egypt. Park defeated Mansour 154-102 in the 18-arrow match to advance to the round of 32. In that round, she faced 33rd-ranked Russian archer Natalia Bolotova, defeating her 165-148. Park then defeated 17th-ranked Naomi Folkard of Great Britain 171-159, advancing to the quarterfinals.

In the quarterfinals, Park faced Evangelia Psarra of Greece, defeating the 8th-ranked archer 111-101 in the 12-arrow match. Park advanced to the semifinals, where she defeated Alison Williamson of Great Britain 110-100, moving Park to the gold medal match and pitting her against fellow Korean Lee Sung Jin. In the final 12-arrow match, Park won by two points over the 2nd-ranked Lee to win the gold medal in women's individual archery.

Park was also a member of the team that won the gold medal for Korea in the women's team competition.

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