Park Sung-hyun (archer)

Park Sung-hyun
Personal information
Born (1983-01-01) 1 January 1983
Incheon, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea
Height172 cm (5 ft 8 in)
Sport
SportArchery
EventRecurve archery
Medal record
Women's recurve archery
Representing  South Korea
Olympic Games
2004 AthensIndividual
2004 AthensTeam
2008 BeijingTeam
2008 BeijingIndividual
World Championships
2001 BeijingIndividual
2003 New York CityTeam
2005 MadridTeam
2007 LeipzigTeam
2003 New York CityIndividual
2007 LeipzigIndividual
2001 BeijingTeam
2005 MadridIndividual
World Cup Final
2008 LausanneIndividual
Asian Games
2002 BusanTeam
2006 DohaIndividual
2006 DohaTeam
Asian Championships
2005 New DelhiIndividual
2005 New DelhiTeam
Summer Universiade
2003 DaeguTeam
2003 DaeguIndividual
Korean name
Hangul
박성현
Hanja
朴成賢
Revised RomanizationBak Seong-hyeon
McCune–ReischauerPak Sŏng-hyŏn

Park Sung-hyun (Korean: 박성현; Hanja: 朴成賢; born 1 January 1983) is an archer from South Korea who competed in two Olympic Games, winning three gold medals. Park made her international archery debut in 2001, winning the women's recurve title at that year's World Archery Championships. Her Olympic debut came at the 2004 Summer Olympics, where she won gold medals in both the women's individual and women's team events. She won two further medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics, achieving her third Olympic gold in the women's team event before earning the silver medal as the runner-up in the women's individual event.

During her career Park achieved success in a variety of international competitions. She was the first South Korean archer to achieve gold medals at the Olympics, the World Championships, the Asian Games, and the Asian Championships. She was the first recurve archer to post at least 1,400 points in a 144-arrow round, and was from 2004 to 2015 the world record holder for the women's 72-arrow round. In 2016 the World Archery Federation named her as the greatest Olympic archer of the 21st century and the third greatest archer of all time.