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Kim Nam-soon (born May 7, 1980) was a member of the
South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...
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archery Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In m ...
team. She won both a gold and a silver medal at the
2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 ...
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Korean archery The Korean Bow ( ko, 각궁, Gak-gung hanja: , or ''horn bow'') is a water buffalo horn-based composite reflex bow, standardized centuries ago from a variety of similar weapons in earlier use. Due to its long use by Koreans, it is also known as Gu ...
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Archery Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In m ...
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List of South Korean archers South Korean archers have been dominant in modern competitive archery, particularly in the Archery at the Summer Olympics, Olympic Recurve bow, recurve discipline, since the 1980s, thanks to a mixture of public interest, domestic competition, coach ...


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1980 births Living people South Korean female archers Archers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic archers of South Korea Olympic gold medalists for South Korea Olympic silver medalists for South Korea Olympic medalists in archery Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics {{SouthKorea-archery-bio-stub