About Lee Sung-Jin
Born 1985. Lee Sung-Jin is a South Korean archer.
Infobox sportsperson name = Lee Sung-jin image = KOCIS Korea London Olympic Archery Womenteam 17 (7682349056).jpg
caption = birth_date = birth_place = Chungnam ) is a recurve archer from South Korea. She is a two-time Olympic gold medalist, winning in the women's team event at the 2004 and 2012 Summer Olympics. In 2005, she became the women's individual recurve champion at the World Championships and achieved the world number one spot for female recurve archers in the World Archery Rankings. In 2016, the World Archery Federation named her as the ninth best Olympic archer in the history of the Games.
Career Olympic Games 2004 Olympics Lee made her Olympic debut aged nineteen at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, joining the defending Olympic champion Yun Mi-jin and the 2001 World Champion Park Sung-hyun on the South Korean women's team. In the preliminary ranking round, which determined the seedings for the elimination rounds of the individual and team events, Lee, Park, and Yun broke the world record for the combined team score over 216 arrows, their total of 2,030 points from a maximum of 2,160 eclipsing the previous best set by the South Korean team at the 2000 Olympics. The score was nevertheless not classified as a new Olympic record because the ranking round took place prior to the opening ceremony. Lee's personal 72-arrow score additionally earned her the second seed for the women's individual event.
2012 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.
World Championships Lee joined Park Sung-hyun and Lee Tuk-young on the women's recurve squad for the 2005 Championships in Madrid, where the South Korean team won gold medal in all four recurve competitions for the first time since 1997. Lee herself won two gold medals, the first coming in the women's team event when she, Park, and Lee Tuk-young defeated Ukraine by a margin of fourteen points. She achieved her second gold medal in the women's individual event, where she advanced to the final after defeating Park in their semi-final encounter, an outcome described by the Korea JoongAng Daily as retribution for the loss Park had inflicted upon her at the 2004 Olympics. Lee defeated Lee Tuk-young in the final by two points, commenting afterwards that the calm weather helped her post a strong points total.
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Who is Lee Sung-Jin?
South Korean archer
When was Lee Sung-Jin born?
Lee Sung-Jin was born on 7 March 1985 in South Chungcheong.
What is Lee Sung-Jin's occupation?
Lee Sung-Jin is an archer.
What nationality is Lee Sung-Jin?
Lee Sung-Jin is South Korean.
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