Choi Hyeon-ju

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Choi Hyeon-ju

Choi at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Personal information

Born 6 August 1984 (age 35)

Sport

Country  South Korea

Sport Archery

Event(s) Recurve

Medal record[show]

Korean name

Hangul 최현주
 Revised Romanization Choe Hyeonju

McCune–Reischauer Ch'oe Hyŏnchu

This is a Korean name; the family name is Choi.

Choi Hyeon-ju (최현주, Korean pronunciation: [tɕʰwe̞.ɦjʌn.dʑu]; born 6 August 1984,
in Jeonbuk) is a South Korean archer. She competed at the 2012 Summer
Olympics where she won gold medal in the women's team event.

Contents

 1Career

 2See also

 3References

 4External links

Career[edit]
2012 Summer Olympics
Choi made her Olympic debut at the 2012 London Games as part of the South
Korean women's archery team alongside Ki Bo-bae and Lee Sung-jin. The trio
collectively finished top of the team standings in the 72-arrow ranking round, which
determined the seedings for the subsequent elimination rounds, with Ki and Lee
heading the results for the individual event. Choi however struggled with nerves in
her first Olympic competition and concluded the round twenty points adrift of her
teammates, scoring 651 points from a maximum of 720 and finishing in a distant 21st
place.[1][2]
South Korea were the overwhelming favourites to win the women's team event, and
the trio comfortably defeated Denmark and Japan to reach the final against China.
After a slow start – in which Choi shot the team's highest score of eight in the first set
of arrows – they recovered to win South Korea's seventh successive Olympic gold
medal in the discipline.[3] Choi's medal came despite competing with shoulder pain,
which she blamed for her form.[4]
Choi reached the last sixteen in the women's individual event, losing in a one arrow
shoot-off to France's Berengère Schuh after tying on set points.[5]

See also[edit]
 Korean archery
 List of South Korean archers

References[edit]
 1. ^ Rutherford, Peter (27 July 2012). "Korea women archers on target but U.S. in the hunt".
Reuters. Retrieved 4 August  2019.
2. ^ Shin, Hyun Hee (28 July 2012).  "S. Korea men, women earn high seeds in
archery". The Korea Herald. Retrieved 1 February 2020.
3. ^ Joo, Kyung-don (31 July 2012).  "Archer shows nerves of steel to win".  Korea JoongAng
Daily. Retrieved  1 February  2020.
4. ^ Kim, Ji-soo (30 July 2012). "Women archers overcome weather". The Korea Herald.
Retrieved  1 February  2020.
5. ^ "L'archère Berangère Schuh en quarts de finale"  [Archer Berangère Schuh into the
quarter-finals].  Libération  (in French). Agence France-Presse. 2 August 2012. Retrieved 1
February 2020.

External links[edit]
 Choi Hyeonju at the World Archery Federation 

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Olympic Archery Champions in Women's Team

g, Yun Y. (KOR)

 Lee E. (KOR)

K., Yoon (KOR)

S., Yun M. (KOR)

 Yun M. (KOR)

., Joo (KOR)

hoi H. (KOR)

M., Ki (KOR)

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