No. 1 seed Park Sung-hyun of the Republic of Korea shot a near perfect score of 115 out of 120 to set a 12-arrow Olympic record in the Women’s Individual Elimination rounds at the Olympic Green Archery Field on Thursday.
Park and her teammates Yun Ok-hee and Joo Hyun-jung advanced as expected to the 1/4 Elimination Round.
The ROK trio, already gold medalists from the Team round on Sunday, are primed to sweep the Women’s Individual Event. The potential sweep would be a flash-back to the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games where three ROK women took home all three Individual medals.
In the most riveting match of the morning, 14-year-old Mariana Avitia of Mexico showed she is ready to challenge the ROK archers for a medal after taking out the No. 4 seed Khatuna Narimanidze of Georgia in the 1/8 Elimination Match. Avitia won the match on her final arrow, 109-108.
Leading archers who qualified for the top eight include American Khatuna Lorig and China’s Zhang Juanjuan.
No. 24 seed Khatuna Lorig of the United States defeated Ana Maria Rendon of Colombia by 12 points, 107-95. Lorig has returned to the Olympic Games after an eight-year absence.
Zhang Juanjuan, the No. 27 seed, carries China’s hopes for an Individual Olympic title having won her 1/8 Elimination match against Natalia Erdyniyeva of Russia 110-98.
Hayakawa Nami of Japan and Kwon Un-sil of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea also qualified for the 1/4 Elimination Round.
Elimination matches resume at 16:00 on Thursday, August 14 at the Olympic Green Archery Field.
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