Choi Won-jong
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Choi Won-jong (; born January 13, 1978) is a South Korean archer. At the 2005 Korean National Sports Festival in
Ulsan Ulsan (; ), officially the Ulsan Metropolitan City, is South Korea's seventh-largest metropolitan city and the eighth-largest city overall, with a population of over 1.1 million inhabitants. It is located in the south-east of the country, neighbo ...
, Choi set a
world record A world record is usually the best global and most important performance that is ever recorded and officially verified in a specific skill, sport, or other kind of activity. The book ''Guinness World Records'' and other world records organizatio ...
by shooting a perfect score of 120 (twelve consecutive shots in the bullseye) in the semifinals of the club-division archery individual
competition Competition is a rivalry where two or more parties strive for a common goal which cannot be shared: where one's gain is the other's loss (an example of which is a zero-sum game). Competition can arise between entities such as organisms, indi ...
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See also

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Korean archery The Korean Bow ( hanja: , or ''horn bow'') is a water buffalo horn-based composite bow, composite Bow shape#Reflex bows, reflex bow, standardized centuries ago from a variety of similar weapons in earlier use. Due to its long use by Koreans, it is ...
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Archery Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a Bow and arrow, bow to shooting, shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting ...
* List of South Korean archers


References

South Korean male archers Year of birth missing (living people) Living people {{SouthKorea-archery-bio-stub