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Lee Sung-jin

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Lee Sung-jin is a South Korean recurve archer, born on 7 March 1985, and a two-time Olympic gold medalist in the women's team event, in 2004 and 2012. She made her Olympic debut at 19 in Athens, where she helped the Korean women set a team world record in the ranking round and won silver in the individual event after losing the final to her teammate Park Sung-hyun. In 2005 she became the women's individual recurve world champion and reached the world number one ranking. At the 2012 London Games she shot alongside Choi Hyeon-ju and Ki Bo-bae to give South Korea its seventh straight Olympic team gold. In 2016 the World Archery Federation named her the ninth best Olympic archer in the history of the Games.

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1985 1
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2-4 1
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is a recurve archer from South Korea
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    born March 7, 1985
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    She is a two-time Olympic gold medalist
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    is a recurve archer from South Korea
  • Competed In: 2004 Summer Olympics, Olympic Games
    Lee made her Olympic debut aged nineteen at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens
  • Competed In: 2012 Summer Olympics, Olympic Games
    Lee took part in her second Olympics at the 2012 London Games
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