'Only One Win Left'... South Korean Women's Archery Advances to Finals [Paris Olympics]

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The "world's strongest" Korean women's archery team has struggled to reach the finals.

Namsuhyun is drawing the bowstring in the women's team archery semifinal against the Netherlands at the 2024 Paris Olympics. [Paris=Yonhap News]

The Korean women's archery team, consisting of Lim Si-hyun (Korea National Sport University), Nam Su-hyun (Suncheon City Hall), and Jeon Hun-young (Incheon City Hall), defeated the Netherlands 5-4 (57-53 52-53 57-58 59-51 26-23) in a shoot-off battle in the semifinals of the 2024 Paris Olympic team event held on the 28th (local time) at the historic Les Invalides special venue in Paris, France. The match format involves three players shooting two arrows each per set, for a total of six arrows. Winning a set earns 2 points, a tie earns 1 point, and losing earns 0 points. In the team event, the first to reach 5 points wins, while in the individual event, the first to 6 points wins.

Korea received the number 1 seed in the qualifying round and did not compete in the first round. In the quarterfinals, they defeated Taiwan 6-2 (52-51 52-56 54-53 56-54). In the semifinals, they narrowly defeated the Netherlands, who had beaten India, 5-4. Korea will face the winner of the other semifinal match between China and Mexico for the gold medal. Since the 1988 Seoul Games, Korea has won the Olympic team event gold medal nine consecutive times without missing a single tournament through the 2020 Tokyo Games.

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