Park Sung-hyun (archer)

Park Sung-hyun
Personal information
Born (1983-01-01) 1 January 1983
Height172 cm (5 ft 8 in)
Sport
SportArchery
Event
Recurve archery
Medal record
Women's recurve archery
Representing  South Korea
Olympic Games
2004 Athens Individual
2004 Athens Team
2008 Beijing Team
2008 Beijing Individual
World Championships
2001 Beijing Individual
2003 New York City Team
2005 Madrid Team
2007 Leipzig Team
2003 New York City Individual
2007 Leipzig Individual
2001 Beijing Team
2005 Madrid Individual
World Cup Final
2008 Lausanne Individual
Asian Games
2002 Busan Team
2006 Doha Individual
2006 Doha Team
Asian Championships
2005 New Delhi Individual
2005 New Delhi Team
Summer Universiade
2003 Daegu Team
2003 Daegu Individual
Korean name
Hangul
박성현
Hanja
朴成賢
RRBak Seonghyeon
MRPak Sŏnghyŏn

Park Sung-hyun (Korean박성현; Hanja朴成賢; born 1 January 1983) is an archer from South Korea who competed in two Olympic Games, winning three gold medals. Park made her international archery debut in 2001, winning the women's recurve title at that year's World Archery Championships. Her Olympic debut came at the 2004 Summer Olympics, where she won gold medals in both the women's individual and women's team events. She won two further medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics, achieving her third Olympic gold in the women's team event before earning the silver medal as the runner-up in the women's individual event.

During her career Park achieved success in a variety of international competitions. She was the first South Korean archer to achieve gold medals at the Olympics, the World Championships, the Asian Games, and the Asian Championships. She was the first recurve archer to post at least 1,400 points in a 144-arrow round, and was from 2004 to 2015 the world record holder for the women's 72-arrow round. In 2016 the World Archery Federation named her as the greatest Olympic archer of the 21st century and the third greatest archer of all time.