Seo Hyang-soon
South Korean archer (born 1967)
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Seo Hyang-soon (Korean: 서향순; born July 8, 1967) is a female South Korean archer and Olympic champion. She competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, where she won an individual gold medal at the age of seventeen.[1][2] She became Korea's first female gold medalist, and its fifth gold medalist overall.[3]
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Women's archery | ||
Representing  South Korea | ||
| Olympic Games | ||
 | 1984 Los Angeles | Individual |
| World Championships | ||
 | 1985 Seoul | Team |
She moved to the United States in 2004, where she teaches Olympic Recurve archery at her own archery school (HSS Sports Academy) in Irvine, California.[4] Her husband is Park Kyung-ho, who won a gold medal in judo at the 1986 Asian Games. They have three children, their eldest daughter, Park Seong-min (박성민) is a professional golfer.[3]
