Im Dong-hyun (; ; born 12 May 1986) 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 ...

. 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 10 times closer to see objects clearly with his left eye, compared to someone with perfect vision.

Career

2004 Summer Olympics

At the

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, Im set a world record in the 72 arrow men's individual ranking round, with a score of 687 (it was not recognized by the International Olympic Committee as an Olympic record, however, as the ranking round took place on 12 August, before the 2004 opening ceremony). He then won his first three elimination matches, advancing to the quarterfinals. In the quarterfinals, Im faced Hiroshi Yamamoto of Japan, losing to the eventual silver medalist 111–110 in the 12-arrow match. Im was placed 6th overall. Im was also a member of Korea's gold medal men's archery team at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

2006 Asian Games

In 2006, he competed at the

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and won two gold medals in the individual and South Korean team.

2008 Summer Olympics

At the

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in Beijing, Im finished his ranking round with a total of 670 points, nine points behind leader

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. This made him the eighth seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced

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in the first round, beating the

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i 108–103. In the second round Im was too strong for

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(115–106), but in the third round another

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, eliminated him with 113–111. Together with

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and

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, he also took part in the team event. With his 670 score from the ranking round combined with the 676 of Park and the 669 of Lee the Koreans were in first position after the ranking round, which gave them a straight seeding into the quarter finals. With a score of 224–222 they were too strong for the Polish team and in the semi final they beat home nation China 221–218. In the final Italy came close, but South Korea took the title with 227–225.

2012 Summer Olympics

On 27 July 2012 at the

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in London, he set a new world record score of 699 in the ranking round at

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, beating his compatriot

Kim Bub-min Kim Bub-min ( ko, 김법민; ; born 22 May 1991, Daejeon) is a South Korean archer. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed for his country, alongside partners Im Dong-hyun and Oh Jin-hyek in the Men's team event, finishing in third pl ...

by one point. Although he was the top seed after the ranking round, he was eliminated in the round of 16, losing 7–1 to

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. Im did win a bronze medal with the South Korean team.

References

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