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Seo Hyang-soon

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Seo Hyang-soon (Korean: 서향순; Hanja: 徐香順; RR: Seo Hyang-sun, born July 8, 1967) is a female South Korean archer and Olympic champion. She competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, where she won an individual gold medal at the age of seventeen. She became Korea's first female gold medalist, and its fifth gold medalist overall. She moved to the United States in 2004, where she teaches Olympic Recurve archery at her own archery school (HSS Sports Academy) in Irvine, California. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Seo Hyang-soon is the 2,959th most popular athlete (up from 4,144th in 2019), the 715th most popular biography from South Korea (up from 973rd in 2019) and the 14th most popular South Korean Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Seo Hyang-soon ranks 2,959 out of 6,025. Before her are Štěpánka Hilgertová, Amar Benikhlef, Dilshod Nazarov, Attila Ábrahám, Nikolay Gulyayev, and Sheila Sherwood. After her are David Rudisha, Luke Kibet, Su Bingtian, Sergei Alifirenko, Debbie Ferguson-McKenzie, and Grace Jackson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1967, Seo Hyang-soon ranks 644. Before her are Mixu Paatelainen, Fatih Portakal, Fred Tatasciore, Attila Ábrahám, Sylvie Fréchette, and David Herman. After her are Javier Valdez Cárdenas, Heidi Mohr, Kristen Skjeldal, Claus Christiansen, Fernando Moner, and Mona Eltahawy.

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In South Korea

Among people born in South Korea, Seo Hyang-soon ranks 715 out of 1,128. Before her are Baek Ji-young (1976), Jo Hyun-jae (1980), Kang Han-na (1989), Kim Jae-yup (1965), Kim Ryeo-wook (1987), and Min (1991). After her are Kim Soo-nyung (1971), Ha Hyung-joo (1962), Yugyeom (1997), Kim Jung-hwan (1983), Bona (1995), and Yoon Doo-joon (1989).

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Among ATHLETES In South Korea

Among athletes born in South Korea, Seo Hyang-soon ranks 14. Before her are Kim Young-ho (1971), Kim Ki-hoon (1967), Kim Jae-bum (1985), Park Kyung-mo (1975), Cho Youn-jeong (1969), and Oh Jin-hyek (1981). After her are Kim Soo-nyung (1971), Kim Jung-hwan (1983), Kim Kyung-wook (1970), Jin Jong-oh (1979), Park Sung-hyun (1983), and Shin Joon-sup (1963).

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