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Yoon Hye-young (born March 15, 1977) is a South Korean
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 ...
and Olympic champion. She competed at the
1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...
in
Atlanta Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,715 ...
, where she won a gold medal with the South Korean archery team."1996 Summer Olympics – Atlanta, United States – Archery"
''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on April 13, 2008)


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* 1977 births Living people South Korean female archers Olympic archers for South Korea Archers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for South Korea Olympic medalists in archery Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics South Korean Buddhists 20th-century South Korean women {{SouthKorea-archery-bio-stub