PARK SUNG-HYUN NAMED KOREAN NATIONAL WOMEN’S TEAM COACH FOR 2022
The much-decorated international archer Park Sung-hyun was appointed to the national coaching staff of the Korean international team for 2022, with the goal of taking medals at the Asian Games in September.
Park will be responsible for the women’s team and is expected to take to the field at international tournaments to support her athletes in competition.
Park took three gold medals and one silver from two Olympic Games, and was also the first recurve archer in history to break the 1,400-point barrier on the WA1440 round. Since completing her shooting career, she has focused on coaching, though this is her first major international appointment.
Korean national team coaches are normally appointed for a period of two years leading up to either the Olympics or the Asian Games; however, the delay to the 2020 Olympics may have changed this procedure.
Bow ran an exclusive interview with Park about both her shooting and coaching career in our Olympics preview issue last year (issue 152).