Hyundai Mobis Hosts Youth Archery Tournament... "Expanding the Archery Base"

Hyundai Mobis held its second youth archery competition of the year. The aim is to expand the base of archery as a recreational sport and provide more opportunities for young people to become familiar with archery.

On the 18th, Hyundai Mobis announced that it held the "2023 Second Half School Sports Club Archery Competition" at Namseoul University in Cheonan, Chungnam, in collaboration with the Korea Archery Association.

The competition saw about 200 students from 10 middle schools operating archery sports clubs participate. The number of participants significantly increased compared to about 140 in the first competition held earlier this year.

Hyundai Mobis held the 'School Sports Club Archery Competition' on the 16th at Namseoul University located in Cheonan, Chungnam. Students participating in the competition are pulling the bowstrings vigorously.
[Photo by Hyundai Mobis]

The event was divided into individual and team competitions. Medalists received medals and prizes such as bow sets. Notably, the competition also featured an archery match event between female national archery team members and students. Hyundai Mobis' women's archery team includes Kang Chae-young, the gold medalist in the women's team event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and So Chae-won, the silver medalist in the individual event at this year's Hangzhou Asian Games.

Since 2017, Hyundai Mobis has been running a junior archery class to establish a systematic archery talent development system. Since last year, this has been operated in the form of supporting school sports clubs.

So far, archery sports clubs have been supported mainly in schools in the Gyeonggi and Chungcheong regions. In the future, the plan is to gradually expand the operation nationwide to regions such as Gangwon and Gyeongsang. From a mid- to long-term perspective, Hyundai Mobis plans to continuously support archery becoming an official school sports club sport by fostering professional instructors utilizing retired archery athletes and strengthening archery education curricula.

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