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Lee Sung-jin
Personal information
BornMarch 7, 1985 (1985-03-07) (age 39)
Medal record
Women's archery
Representing  South Korea
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2004 Athens Team
Gold medal – first place 2012 London Team
Silver medal – second place 2004 Athens Individual
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2005 Madrid Individual
Summer Universiade
Gold medal – first place 2005 Izmir Individual
Korean name
Hangul
이성진
Hanja
李成震
Revised RomanizationI Seong-jin
McCune–ReischauerYi Sŏng-jin

Lee Sung-Jin (Korean: 이성진; Hanja: 李成震 ; born March 7, 1985) is an archer from South Korea. In 2005, she became the World Champion and achieved the world number one ranking. She has won two Olympic gold medals.

Career

2004 Summer Olympics

Lee represented Korea at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She placed 2nd in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 675. In the first round of elimination, she faced 63rd-ranked Lamia Bahnasawy of Egypt. Lee defeated Bahnasawy 164-127 in the 18-arrow match to advance to the round of 32. In that round, she faced 34th-ranked Greek archer Elpida Romantzi, defeating her 166-146. Lee then defeated 15th-ranked Margarita Galinovskaya of Russia 165-163, advancing to the quarterfinals.

In the quarterfinals, Lee faced Wu Hui Ju of Chinese Taipei, narrowly defeating the 10th-ranked archer 104-103 in the 12-arrow match. Lee advanced to the semifinals, where she defeated Yuan Shu Chi, also of Chinese Taipei, 104-98. This moved Lee to the gold medal match, pitting her against fellow Korean Park Sung-hyun. In the final 12-arrow match, Lee lost by two points to the 1st-ranked Park, finishing with a silver medal in women's individual archery while Park won the gold medal.

Lee was also a member of the team that won the gold medal for Korea in the women's team archery competition.[1][2]

At the 2004 Summer Olympics, she and her Korean teammates, Park Sung-Hyun Yun Mi-Jun won the team gold medal.[1]

2012 Summer Olympics

Lee took part in her second Olympics at the 2012 London Games as part of the South Korean women's archery team alongside Choi Hyeon-ju and Ki Bo-bae. South Korea were the heavy favourites to win the women's team event, and the trio comfortably defeated Denmark, Japan and China to win South Korea's seventh successive Olympic gold medal in the discipline.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Lee Seong-Jin". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2016-12-04.
  2. ^ Strange, Mary Zeiss; Oyster, Carol K; Sloan, Jane E (2011). Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World. Vol. Volume 1. SAGE Publications. p. 82. {{cite book}}: |volume= has extra text (help)
  3. ^ Joo, Kyung-don (31 July 2012). "Archer shows nerves of steel to win". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved 1 February 2020.


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