The Korea Archery Affiliation and its decadeslong sponsor Hyundai Motor Group held a congratulatory banquet Tuesday to rejoice the Korean nationwide archers’ unprecedented success — profitable all 5 out there gold medals on the 2024 Olympic Video games in Paris earlier this summer time.
The Korean girls’s archery crew gained its tenth consecutive gold whereas the lads’s crew gained its third gold in a row. The combined archery crew took the back-to-back titles. Koreans additionally swept each males’s and girls’s particular person occasions.
“The good file of Korean archery, which is one for the historical past books, was not achieved simply in a single day,” stated Hyundai Motor Group Govt Chair Chung Euisun, who doubles because the president of the KAA.
“The differentiating issue between a win and a loss was continuous follow and energy in addition to outside-the-box practices. Such variations got here to life due to the previous KAA presidents’ love and assist for archery, quite a few archers’ progressive challenges to enhance their expertise and the scientific development of practices.”
Chung Mong-koo, the daddy of the Hyundai Motor Group chief and the honorary chair of Hyundai Motor Group, served because the KAA president from 1985 to 1997. The present KAA president took the put up in 2005.
The KAA awarded money incentives to the nationwide archers. The triple gold medalists — Kim Woo-jin and Lim Si-hyeon — every obtained 800 million gained ($600,000). Nam Su-hyeon, the silver medalist within the girls’s particular person occasion, and Lee Woo-seok, the bronze medalist within the males’s particular person occasion, got 500 million gained and 450 million gained, respectively. Jeon Hun-young and Kim Je-deok, who performed a vital position in profitable the gold medals on the girls’s and males’s crew occasions however got here up brief within the particular person occasions, obtained 330 million gained.
Hyundai Motor Group has sponsored the KAA over the past 40 years to assist the nation’s archery sector. Utilizing the auto conglomerate’s cutting-edge applied sciences, Hyundai Motor developed a variety of gadgets to assist the archers hone their expertise comparable to a private capturing robotic, a multiangle digital camera that may analyze every archer’s capturing type to seek out the perfect posture and a conveyable arrow-diagnosis machine that archers can use to look at their gear wherever, anytime.
Since 1984, Korean archers have secured 32 gold medals, 10 silver medals and eight bronze medals on the Summer time Olympic Video games to turn into essentially the most dominant archery nation on this planet.
Hyundai Motor Group plans to proceed supporting the KAA and the nation’s archery sector.
