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Representing  South Korea
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| Olympic Games | ||
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1984 Los Angeles | Individual |
| World Championships | ||
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1985 Seoul | Team |
Seo Hyang-soon (Korean: 서향순; Hanja: 徐香順; RR: Seo Hyang-sun, born July 8, 1967) is a female South Korean archer and Olympic champion. She competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, where she won an individual gold medal at the age of seventeen. She became Korea's first female gold medalist, and its fifth gold medalist overall.
She moved to the United States in 2004, where she teaches Olympic Recurve archery at her own archery school (HSS Sports Academy) in Irvine, California. Her husband is Park Kyung-ho, who won a gold medal in judo at the 1986 Asian Games. They have three children, their eldest daughter, Park Seong-min (박성민) is a professional golfer.
References
- "1984 Summer Olympics – Los Angeles, United States – Archery" Archived 2008-08-27 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on April 13, 2008)
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Seo Hyang-Sun". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2016-12-04. Retrieved 2019-10-06.
- ^ "아빠는 유도 금 엄마는 양궁 금 딸은 미국 주니어 골프 챔프" (in Korean). JungAng Ilbo. Retrieved 2019-10-06.
- "Hyang Soon Seo". HSS Sports Academy. Retrieved 2019-10-06.
External links
- Seo Hyang-Soon at Olympics.com
- Seo Hyang-Soon at Olympedia
- Hyang-Soon Seo at databaseOlympics.com (archived)
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