Park breaks Olympic record in 12-arrow archery elimination
14/8/2008 17:46
No. 1 seed Park Sung-Hyun of South Korea shot 115 points to set a new
12-arrow Olympic record in the women's individual 1/8 elimination at the Olympic
archery field today.
Park and her teammates Yun Ok-Hee and Joo Hyun-Jung all
advanced as expected to the quarterfinals.
The previous record was 114 points
made by Kim Soo-Nyung, another South Korean, at the 1992 Barcelona
Olympics.
The Korean trio, already gold medallists for the women's team on
Sunday, are primed to sweep the women's individual.
The potential sweep would
be a flash-back to the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games where three South Korean women
took home all three individual medals.
In the most riveting match of the
morning, 14-year-old Mariana Avitia from Mexico showed she is ready to challenge
the Koreans for a medal after taking out the No. 4 seed Khatuna Narimanidze of
Georgia in the 1/8 elimination. Avitia won the match on her final arrow,
109-108.
Leading archers who qualified for the top eight include Khatuna
Lorig from United States and China's Zhang Juanjuan, who was also a twice
Olympian.
No. 24 seed Khatuna Lorig defeated Ana Maria Rendon from Colombia
by 12 points, 107-95. Lorig has returned to the Olympic Games after an eight
-year absence.
Zhang, the No. 27 seed, carries China's hope for an individual
Olympic title having won her 1/8 elimination match against Natalia Ereyniyeva of
Russia 110-98.
The other two archers qualified for the last eight were Nami
Hayakava from Japan and Kwon Un Sil of DPRK.
Xinhua
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