Choi Mi-sun

Choi Mi-sun
Personal information
Born (1996-07-01) 1 July 1996
Height 168 cm (5 ft 6 in)[1]
Weight 53 kg (117 lb)[1]
Sport
Country  South Korea
Sport Archery
Event(s) recurve
Coached by Kim Sung-eun[2]
Korean name
Hangul 최미선
Hanja 崔美善
Revised Romanization Choe Miseon
McCune–Reischauer Ch'oe Misŏn

Choi Mi-sun (Korean pronunciation: [tɕʰwe̞.mi.sʌn]; born 1 July 1996) is a female South Korean recurve archer.

She competed in the individual recurve event and the team recurve event at the 2015 World Archery Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark.[3] She attends Gwangju Women's University.[4] In 2016, she ranks as the world number 1 female archer.[2] She won gold at the 2016 Summer Olympics on the Women's Team.[5] The world record of women's recurve qualification round, which is 687 point currently, was set by her on 20 August 2017 at The Summer Universiade 2017 in Taipei.

References

  1. 1 2 "Choi Mi-sun". Rio2016. Archived from the original on 19 August 2016. Retrieved 2016-08-13.
  2. 1 2 "Choi Mi-sun". worldarchery.org. Retrieved 2016-08-13.
  3. "2015 World Archery Championships: Entries by country" (PDF). ianseo.net. pp. 7–18. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  4. "구본찬·최미선 '양궁 국가대표는 영광의 자리'" [Ku Bon-chan, Choi Mi-son: 'greatly honoured to have a position on archery team]. Dong-A Ilbo. 27 May 2015. Retrieved 29 October 2015.
  5. "Archery: Unflappable South Koreans protect proud legacy". Reuters. 2016-08-07. Retrieved 2016-08-11.


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