6-0 in the quarter-finals, 5-1 in the semi-finals, then again 6-0 in the final.
South Korea flew over the team archery event this Sunday at the Tokyo Olympics.
We would like to be ecstatic about this performance, but we must admit that it does not surprise many people.
Led by the world number one, An San, who won gold in the mixed archery event the day before, South Korea won its ninth consecutive Olympic title in this category on Sunday.
Since the introduction of the event in 1988, the women's team has never lost a match.
A record that will be difficult to break one day ...
Seoul 1988 ▶ ️ # Tokyo2020 # Archery - Women's Team Event
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The South Korean women's archery team have not lost a match since the discipline was introduced 33 years ago!
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- # Tokyo2020 (@ Tokyo2020) July 26, 2021
The men also won the team title, as well as the mixed doubles.
It goes without saying that this discipline is a real specialty of South Korea.
The country has thus monopolized 23 of the 40 gold medals distributed in the history of the Olympics.
We have to go back to 1981 to understand the reasons for this supremacy.
South Korea obtains the organization of the Olympic Games in 1988 in Seoul.
An edition that sees male and female team archery land in its program.
The authorities then decide to invest heavily in this discipline and to develop the practice in its schools and businesses.
