An San Fails to Qualify for 2024 Olympics After Three-Time Gold Medal Success

Three-time Olympic archery champion An San will not participate in the 2024 Olympic Games after failing to secure a place in the South Korean delegation on Monday during selection trials.

The 23-year-old goalkeeper “failed in her attempt to join the national team this year because she failed to finish in the Top 16,” South Korean outlet STN reported. 24 South Korean athletes competed in these events.

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Las surkoreanas Jang Minhee, Kang Chae-young y An San

“This serves as a reminder that winning a domestic competition is not necessarily easier than winning an international competition,” STN added.

During the Tokyo Games in 2021, An became the first woman since 1904 to win three gold medals in archery during the same edition, thanks to her titles in the individual, team and mixed events.

South Korea is an international archery power, especially in the women’s category. South Korean women have won team gold nine consecutive times at the Olympic Games since the event’s creation in 1988.

Last February, Olympic champion Ki Bo Bae (1988, Gochang, North Jeolla province) made her retirement official at the age of 36; The archer announced the news on February 14, a career of 27 years that, according to what she declared in her farewell, she would not repeat the path of archery, since it is “fierce and highly competitive, with numerous talented athletes in the country.”

Ki Bo Bae London 2012 Ki Bo Bae and his Olympic gold / Korean Olympic Committee

With information from AFP and FOX Sports Digital

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2024-03-12 16:20:53
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