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Seo Hyang-soon
Medal record
Women’s archery
Representing  South Korea
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1984 Los Angeles Individual

Seo Hyang-soon (Korean서향순; Hanja徐香順; RRSeo Hyang-sun, born July 8, 1967) is a female South Korean archer and Olympic champion. She competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, where she won an individual gold medal at the age of seventeen.[1][2] She became Korea's first female gold medalist.[3]

She moved to the United States in 2004, where she teaches archery at her own archery school in Irvine, California.[4] Her husband is Park Kyung-ho, who won a gold medal in judo at the 1986 Asian Games. They have three children, their eldest daughter, Park Seong-min (박성민) is a professional golfer.[3]

References

  1. ^ "1984 Summer Olympics – Los Angeles, United States – Archery" Archived 2008-08-27 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on April 13, 2008)
  2. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Seo Hyang-Sun". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2016-12-04. Retrieved 2019-10-06.
  3. ^ a b "아빠는 유도 금 엄마는 양궁 금 딸은 미국 주니어 골프 챔프" (in Korean). JungAng Ilbo. Retrieved 2019-10-06.
  4. ^ "Hyang Soon Seo". HSS Sports Academy. Retrieved 2019-10-06.