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 (

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, World Archery Championships and World Cup finals) and is a former world number one. He is married to archer Park Sung-hyun.

2004 Summer Olympics

Park competed for Korea at the

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in men's individual archery. He won his first three elimination matches, advancing to the quarterfinals. In the quarterfinals, Park faced Tim Cuddihy of

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, losing to the eventual

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ist 112-111 in the 12-arrow match. Park placed 5th overall and holds the Olympic record for an 18-arrow match at 70 meters. He scored 173 points out of the potential 180 to set the record. He was also a member of Korea's

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men's archery team at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

2008 Summer Olympics

At the

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in Beijing Park finished his ranking round with a total of 676 points, three 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, advanc ...

. This gave him the fourth seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced

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in the first round, beating the Brazilian 116-99. In the second round Park was too strong for Kuo Cheng Wei (111-110) and via

Rafał Dobrowolski Rafał Dobrowolski (born 27 December 1983 in Kielce) is an athlete from Poland, who competes in archery. 2008 Summer Olympics At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Dobrowolski finished his ranking round with a total of 667 points, which gave h ...

(113-105) in the third round he advanced to the quarter-finals. There he and

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both came to 108 points and an extra round was needed. Here Park scored 19 points and Stevens 17, which brought Park into the semi-final, in which he was too strong for ranking round winner Serrano. In the final he came one point too short to equal Viktor Ruban for the gold and had to be satisfied with the silver medal, 113-112.Athlete biography: Park Kyung-Mo
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Lee Chang-Hwan Lee Chang-hwan (; born 16 March 1982) is a professional archer from South Korea. He competed in Archery at the 2006 Asian Games and won a gold medal with the men's team consisting of himself, Im Dong-hyun, Jang Yong-ho and Park ...

and Im Dong-Hyun he also took part in the team event. With his 676 score from the ranking round combined with the 670 of Im and the 669 of Lee 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 Italy came close, but South Korea took the title with 227-225.

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2004 Summer Olympics

2008 Summer Olympics

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