- Park Kyung-Mo
Infobox Korean name
hangul=박경모
hanja=朴敬模
rr=Bak Gyeong-mo
mr=Pak Kyŏng-moPark Kyung-Mo (born
August 15 1975 ) is an archer fromSouth Korea .2004 Summer Olympics
Park competed for Korea at the
2004 Summer Olympics in men's individual archery. He won his first three elimination matches, advancing to the quarterfinals. In the quarterfinals, Park facedTim Cuddihy ofAustralia , losing to the eventualbronze medal ist 112-111 in the 12-arrow match. Park placed 5th overall and holds the Olympic record for an 18-arrow match at 70 meters. He scored 173 points out of the potential 180 to set the record. He was also a member of Korea'sgold medal men's archery team at the 2004 Summer Olympics.2008 Summer Olympics
At the
2008 Summer Olympics inBeijing Park finished his ranking round with a total of 676 points, three points behind leaderJuan René Serrano . This gave him the fourth seed for the final competition bracket in which he facedLuiz Trainini in the first round, beating theBrazil ian 116-99. In the second round Park was too strong forKuo Cheng Wei (111-110) and viaRafał Dobrowolski (113-105) in the third round he advanced to the quarter finals. There he andJuan Carlos Stevens both came to 108 points and an extra round was needed. Here Park scored 19 points and Stevens 17, which brought Park into the semi final, in which he was too strong for ranking round winner Serrano. In the final he came one point too short to equalViktor Ruban for the gold and had to be satisfied with the silver medal, 113-112. [http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BIO/Athlete/7/228337.shtml Athlete biography: Park Kyung-Mo] , beijing2008.cn, ret: Aug, 17 2008]Together with
Lee Chang-Hwan andIm Dong-Hyun he also took part in the team event. With his 676 score from the ranking round combined with the 670 of Im and the 669 of Lee the Koreans were in first position after the ranking round, which gave them a straight seed into the quarter finals. With 224-222 they were too strong for the Polish team and in the semi final they beat home nationChina 221-218. In the finalItaly came close, but South Korea took the title with 227-225.References
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