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
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by shooting a perfect score of 120 (twelve consecutive shots in the
bullseye) in the semifinals of the club-division archery individual
competition
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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 ...
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List of South Korean archers
References
South Korean male archers
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
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