Yun Mi-jin (; born April 30, 1983) is an archer from

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who has won three Olympic gold medals and is a former world number one. She holds the Olympic record for a women's 18-arrow match, at 173 out of a possible 180. Yun set the record in

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at the

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and matched it in

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. In

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Yun placed 4th in the individual ranking round with a score of 661. In the first elimination round she beat Erika Reyes of Mexico 168-157. In the round of 32, she defeated Anna Karaseva of Belarus 162-152. In round 16, she broke the Olympic record in women's 18-arrow match in defeat of Alison Williamson of Great Britain 173 to 164. In the quarterfinals, Yun defeated Natalia Bolotova of Russia 110-105 in a 12-arrow match, and in the semi-finals the eventual bronze-medalist and compatriot Kim Soo-nyung 107-105. In the final, she captured the gold by a mere point, when Yun defeated

Kim Nam-soon Kim Nam-soon (born May 7, 1980) was a member of the South Korean Olympic archery team. She won both a gold and a silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics. See also *Korean archery *Archery Archery is the sport, practice, or skill o ...

107-106. In

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, Yun placed 3rd in the women's individual ranking round with a 72-arrow score of 673. In the first round of elimination, she faced 62nd-ranked Hanna Karasiova of

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. Yun defeated Karasiova 162-155 in the 18-arrow match to advance to the round of 32. In that round, she faced 35th-ranked

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ese archer Sayami Matsushita, defeating 173-149 and tying her own Olympic record for score in an 18-arrow match. Yun then defeated 19th-ranked Jennifer Nichols of the

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168-162, advancing to the quarterfinals. In the quarterfinals, Yun faced Yuan Shu-chi of

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, losing to the 6th-ranked archer to end the Korean team's hopes of sweeping the medals. The final score of 107-105 in the 12-arrow match placed Yun 5th overall in women's individual archery. She competed in the

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, where she won a gold medal in the team event and a bronze medal in the individual event, and at the

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where she won a gold medal in the team event.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Yun, Mi-jin 1983 births Living people South Korean female archers Archers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Archers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic archers for South Korea Olympic gold medalists for South Korea Olympic medalists in archery Asian Games medalists in archery Archers at the 2002 Asian Games Archers at the 2006 Asian Games Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics World Archery Championships medalists Asian Games gold medalists for South Korea Asian Games bronze medalists for South Korea Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games Summer World University Games medalists in archery FISU World University Games silver medalists for South Korea Medalists at the 2005 Summer Universiade South Korean archery coaches 21st-century South Korean sportswomen