Ha-Neul "Sky" Kim (born 24 November 1982) is an Australian Olympic archer.

Personal

Sky's full name is Ha-Neul "Sky" Kim. He is originally from

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the southern half of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and borders North Korea along the Korean Demilitarized Zone, with the Yellow Sea to the west and t ...

, and was born in Daegu, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea on 24 November 1982. He moved to Australia in 2005. In 2006, he became an Australian citizen. He is tall and weighs . His father and brother were archers. He is married to a fellow archer, Hyun-Ok Jung, whom he met while training in archery in 2000.

Archery

Kim competes in

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 ...

. He was an

Australian Institute of Sport The Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) is a high performance sports training institution in Australia. The institute's headquarters were opened in 1981 and are situated in the northern suburb of Bruce, Canberra. The AIS is a division of the ...

scholarship holder. He was coached by Ki-Sik Lee, the head coach of the

team in 2005. To help with his training for archery, he has been known to do mountain climbing and play golf. In 2004, he was the Korean national archery champion. In 2007, he competed at a Beijing-based test event, where he won a gold medal. In 2008, he was training at the

. Going into the 2008 Games, he was coached by Australian Institute of Sport coach Kynmoon Oh. At the 2008 World Cup in Santo Domingo Dominican Republic, he was part of the Australian silver medal winning recurve team that. He returned to the Australian archery team in 2011 after an absence dating back to the 2008 Olympics. He attended a national team training camp in Canberra in September 2011. He attended a national team training camp in Canberra in March 2012. At the 2012 National Target Archery Championships, he finished first as a member of AACT. In May 2012, he had to miss a national team in a training camp in

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because he had work commitments.

Olympics

In 2004, he was the Korean national archery champion. He aimed for Olympic selection from Korea but did not make the team. At the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and officially branded as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes fro ...

in Beijing Kim finished his ranking round with a total of 665 points. This gave him the 14th seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced

Romain Girouille Romain Girouille (born 26 April 1988 in Saint-Doulchard) is a French archer. Career 2008 Summer Olympics At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing Girouille finished his ranking round with a total of 641 points, which gave him the 51st seed for th ...

in the first round, beating the French archer by 112–110. In the second round Kim was eliminated as Jacek Proć won the confrontation with 111–110. Together with Matthew Gray and Michael Naray he also took part in the team event. With his 665 score from the ranking round combined with the 654 of Gray and the 658 of Naray the Australians were in 9th position after the ranking round. In the first round they were defeated by eight seed

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(223–218). The Polish would not come further than the quarter final. In 2008, he represented Australia at the

in archery. He was viewed as Australia's best medal chance in archery going into the Games. He competed in both the team and individual event. Going into the knock out stage in the team competition, Australia was ranked ninth. In one of the early rounds of the 2008 Games, he beat Romain Giroullie of France with a score of 112–110. In September 2011, he was named to the Australian archery shadow Olympic team. In March at the 2012 Olympic Games Nomination Shoot Results, he finished first with a score of 2669.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Kim, Sky 1982 births Living people Archers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic archers for Australia Australian male archers South Korean male archers South Korean emigrants to Australia Australian people of Korean descent Sportspeople from Daegu Australian Institute of Sport archers 21st-century South Korean sportsmen 21st-century Australian sportsmen