Lee Chang-hwan (; born 16 March 1982) is a professional

archer 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 mo ...

from

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 ...

. He competed in

Archery at the 2006 Asian Games Archery was competed at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar. Men and women competed in both individual and team events with all competition taking place at the Lusail Archery Range from December 9 through December 13. The competition included on ...

and won a

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with the men's team consisting of himself,

Im Dong-hyun Im Dong-hyun (; ; born 12 May 1986) is a South Korean archer. He competes for the South Korean national team and is a former world number one. He has 20/200 vision in his left eye and 20/100 vision in his right eye, meaning he needs to be 1 ...

, Jang Yong-ho and

Park Kyung-mo Park Kyung-mo (; born August 15, 1975) is an archer from South Korea. He has won gold medals at the three major World Archery Federation events ( Olympics, World Archery Championships and World Cup finals) and is a former ...

2008 Summer Olympics

At the

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Lee finished his ranking round with a total of 669 points, ten points behind leader

Juan René Serrano Juan René Serrano Gutiérrez (born 23 February 1984 in Guadalajara, Jalisco) is an athlete from Mexico. He competes in archery. Serrano competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's individual archery. He won his first match, ad ...

. This gave him the tenth seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced Jiang Lin in the first round, beating the

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112–108. In the second round Lee was too strong for

Yusuf Ergin Yusuf Göktuğ Ergin (born 12 September 1984) is an athlete from Turkey, who competes in archery. 2008 Summer Olympics At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Ergin finished his ranking round with a total of 660 points, which gave him the 23rd ...

(117-109), breaking the Olympic Record. However, in the third round Lee and

Cheng Chu-sian Cheng Chu Sian (; born 1 March 1986 in Kuala Lumpur) is an athlete from Malaysia, who competes in archery. 2008 Summer Olympics At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Cheng finished his ranking round with a total of 660 points. This gave him t ...

both came to 105 points and in the extra round Lee scored 18 points, while Cheng scored 19 points and eliminated Lee. Together with

and

, he also took part in the team event. With his 669 score from the ranking round combined with the 670 of Im and the 676 of Park the Koreans were in first position after the ranking round, which gave them a straight seed into the quarter finals. With 224-222 they were too strong for the

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team and in the semi final they beat home nation

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221–218. In the final

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came close, but South Korea took the title with 227–225.

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2008 Summer Olympics

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