[Asian Games] Lee Woo-seok and Lim Si-hyun Advance to Recurve Mixed Team Archery Semifinals After Defeating Vietnam

Asian Games Archery Mixed Team First Gold Medal Challenge

Lee Woo-seok (Kolon) and Lim Si-hyun (Korea National Sport University) of the Korean archery team advanced to the mixed team semifinals at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games.

On the 3rd, at the Puyang Inhu Sports Center in Hangzhou, China, Lim Si-hyun is celebrating her victory after the women's individual recurve archery semifinal match at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games.
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The Lee Woo-seok?Lim Si-hyun pair secured a decisive 6-0 victory (39-35, 38-36, 39-36) against Vietnam's Nguyen Duy and Do Thi An Nguyet in the mixed team quarterfinals held on the 4th at the Fuyang Yinhu Sports Centre Archery Field in Hangzhou, China.

Lee Woo-seok and Lim Si-hyun will compete in the semifinals at 4:20 PM Korean time against the winner of the India-Indonesia match.

Korean archery aims to win its first gold medal in the Asian Games mixed team event. Introduced for the first time at the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Games, the mixed team event features one male and one female archer shooting a total of 16 arrows?8 arrows each?in recurve mixed team format. The competition is conducted over 4 ends, with 4 arrows shot per end.

The Korean team narrowly took silver in this event at its debut in the previous Games. Lee Woo-seok, who previously won two silver medals in the men's team and individual events at the Jakarta-Palembang Games, is now aiming for his first Asian Games gold medal.

Lim Si-hyun, who joined the national team for the first time this year, has recorded the best results among Korean female archers in international competitions such as the World Cup, earning her the reputation as the team's "youngest ace."

Lim Si-hyun is also set to face An San (Gwangju Women’s University), the triple gold medalist at the Tokyo Olympics, in the individual final. She will first challenge for a medal in the mixed team event.

The Vietnamese archery team is coached by Park Chae-soon, who led the Korean team at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

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