Kim Jo-Sun ( ko, 김조순, born June 13, 1975) is a female

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and sharing a land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed by the Yellow Sea, while its eas ...

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 m ...

and Olympic champion. She competed at the

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, where she won a gold medal with the South Korean archery team (with

Kim Kyung-wook Kim Kyung-wook (born April 18, 1970) is a South Korean archer and Olympic champion. She competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat o ...

and

Yoon Hye-young Yoon Hye-young (born March 15, 1977) is a South Korean archer and Olympic champion. She competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the s ...

). She won an individual gold medal at the 1998 Asian Games in

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, as well as a team gold medal. She married table tennis player

Kim Taek-soo Kim Taek-Soo (Hangul: 김택수, Hanja: 金擇洙) (born May 25, 1970) is a former table tennis player from South Korea. He used a one-sided penhold style, compared to the newer style of reverse-backhand looping that has become the Chinese penh ...

in 2000.

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