Paris Olympics 2024 - Archery - Greatest female archers ever 

South Korean Women's Team wins the Paris Team gold. 10th consecutive gold medal...undefeated!

Great you bringing this under attention. Korean recurve archers are of the best in the world

I agree. These girls deserve to be recognized. In fact all Olympic Archery events should have much better coverage than what they have now.

My wife, brother, sister-in-law, and myself were glued to the TV when the women's archery teams of Korea and China went against each other in the gold medal team competition. It was thrilling. We bought a subscription to Peacock just so we could watch as much of the games as we could. Women's rugby is also a must-see. 70 meters with a recurve - amazing.

Remember An-San who won ALL 3 gold medals for Korea at Tokyo 2020 Olympics? She was 19 at the time and 23 years now. She failed to reach the national team in Korea it’s that hard to be picked for the Korean team!😮

I love your enthusiasm! I absolutely agree with you, Lim is the greatest female archer ever and deserves much more recognition 👏 👏

Honor where honor is due! 👍 Thank you!

To select the players for every competition, Korea holds knock out stage. Open to everyone. 3 people who remain after the competiton have access to the real event. There is no handpicked atheletes. That is why you see some new faces in every competitons. For example, the gold medalist from Tokyo Olympic 2020,she got knocked out by 1 of those you see now. So she cannot be found in Paris Olympic.

Well said Steven like you said amazing archers !

In ancient times, China called Korea the "bow of the east," and it was a country that cultivated its spirit through bows. It was a nation with bows in its genes, and there are probably 20 athletes in Korea who could win the Olympics even now. thanks.

I think it's because people don't realize how hard it is to hit the bull's-eye 70 meters away. Most people including myself aren't really familiar with the high level archery.

Traditionally Koreans were good archers. Their traditional archery is for a sniper, 145m distance from the target. The traditional archery is quite popular. About 250 public traditional archery clubs all over the country. In 1960s, the President said. "Let's try this Western style archery. Why not?" At that time, Korea was a country as pooor as Gabon or Niger. They did not have US dollars to import Western bows and arrows. So they made coarse indigenous substitutes. Who could teach? The traditional archers! Now many countries hire (South) Koreans as a coach or a director. Their trainging method has some grain from the traditional archery. (As a Korean, I am a traditional archer. I love sniper-style shooting from 145 m afar)

Tombs from the ancient Korean Peninsula kingdoms dating from the 3rd to 7th centuries contain murals depicting Cataphract and Parthian Shot.This may be one of the reasons why Koreans are invincible in archery.

Thank you for shining a bit of light on these results. There should indeed be much more recognition for these achievements. Also, your store looks amazing :-)

Completely agree with every single word you said!!! Shared your video to Facebook

World Archery covered her world record, both in writing and in videos. This was amazing. I have been watching Lim all season. She broke on the scene in the Hyundai World Cup, winning not only the first stage in her debut international tournament, but other stages as well. She was really dominant for the whole season. The Korean Archery RU-vid channel has been promoting all of these archer all year. Both Kim Woojin and Brady Ellison are competing in the Olympics as well. They are the Olympic and World rrecords of 700 and 702 respectively. The men qualified in the afternoon. The reporting did say the afternoon had more wind than the morning, when the women qualified.

Lim Si Hyeon's achievement is staggering, and she and the rest of the Korean ladies are an inspiration to many. However, the conditions for the Men's event weren't as favourable, notably the wind.

I think a lot of it also has to do with how Korean athletes are just generally not treated the way other celebrities might be treated. Look at someone like Son Heung-Min. Arguably the best Asian footballer of his time, national team captain, Tottenham captain, Premier League Golden Boot winner, Puskas award winner, etc. Sure, he is absolutely adored here in Korea and he does a ton of product endorsements - but you'd find very little interest ins his personal life. At least, not in the same way as K-Pop or K-Drama stars, who get much more media attention in that area. I could be wrong - I am not Korean, so I'm no expert. But I am a Tottenham fan living in Korea, and this is how I've perceived it. As for the girls getting media coverage here - the Korean Herald has done full English pieces covering their Olympic successes, so you could check that out. And of course everyone is following and watching on TV and discussing on Kakao Chat groups, etc.

Korea always dominates Olympic Archery. As an American I’m cheering for Casey K

As a Korean woman, THANK YOU soooooo much for this coverage!!! 🥰 It is very rare for me to see an international segment like this, on our Archery teams/singles, even though they are amongst the best in the world. You are pretty awesome! 😉👍 I hope you will keep following all of our Korean archers for a long time to come! 🤗 Thank you, again!!! ❤🇰🇷❤

steven, through the duration of the olympic games, non-olympic sponsors are not allowed to advertise their athletes' success and the athletes themselves are not allowed to post anything with regards to their non-olympic sponsors.

Lim Sihyeon is absolutely amazing. With a little bit of research you will find here way in Korea 🇰🇷 to the top 🔝. I predict today that the first 🥇 at the Paris Olympics will not her last. Maybe 🥇🥇 more will be possible. What I say now will become true, if the is no injuries, SHE will be the No. 1 archer 🏹 in the World Archery rankings for long times! She is now the undisputed superstar!!! ✨⭐️🏹⭐️✨

Korea throughout the ancient times and more recent history fought off enemies and invaders with bows and arrows while riding on horses. So, for Koreans archery is more than a sport.

I get so cross that certain sports claim the TV time and many like highly skilled archery hardly gets a moment.

It's interesting there was reporting questioning why she was on the team. While the culture has an emphasis on age and seniority, the archery scene in Korea is a pure meritocracy. If you're a rookie and can outshoot the eldest captain, you get the spot. You don't get tenure, you have to keep your skills to pay the bills.

I am a korean living in Korea. Excellence has a lot to do with extreme hard work backed by technology, science, and rigorous screening and training programs rather than the myth of the tradition and hostory, imo It is a well-known fact that making it to team Korea is way harder than winning a gold medal in an olympics. 200+ excellent archers shoot 20 thousand shots for days to earn a spot in an olympics. Top 3 scorers secure 3 spots in the olympics. There is no seeding for screening process. Doesn't matter whether you won the gold medal or world championship in the past. Everybody starts from the ground zero to get through the olympic selection process. Transparency and integity is the key to screening process. For example, An San, who won 3 gold medals in previous olympics, did not make it to team korea for this Paris olympics. That is the level of competition when it comes to korean achery. That is why we have new and young archers in every olympics and yet still won gold medals for the last 10 olympics. Plus, they have trained with shooting AI that shoots perfect for this olympics. Main sponsor of Korean archery team is Hyundai motors, and they are known for its devoted sponsorship, finacial support, technology, equipment development, etc... What they also focus on is that they train in a situation or location that is similar to olympic location, considering rivers, winds,....plus they put high emphasis on mind control and psychology as a part of the program. Korea women archery team won 10 consecutive gold, which means they never lost a game to anyone for almost 4 decades, given that the game is played as tournaments. It is almost a miracle if you think about it...

Koreans are good at archery, shooting, fencing, golf..... focusing, getting concentrated on the moment. As a Korean, I don't know why, either.

So awesome how you Phillies these amazing archers keep it up. Hopefully you can invest in a decent mike for audio. They are in expensive but also make a burger difference in quality of your videos. 👍

and they won 10 golds in a row

Well said...

A few things: 1) I think they all get some recognition in the Sth Korean media. 2) Most of them have a job of archery with companies/councils/universities - so equipment sponsorship is not as important. 3) Their selection process gives no favours to past Olympians / international winners, so if you shoot great in the selection trials you go to the Olympics. 4) My opinion is that 2) and 3) keep Sth Korean archers in Sth Korea. It diminishes the likelihood that an archer would leave the country to try and get citizenship and selection from another country. 5) Didn't An San have a bit of social media presence and she was harassed by "little boys" who couldn't cope with some things she said/her looks/????/ anything and everything that made them scared?

They are sponsored by Hyundai. Korean Archery association's chairman is Hyunday motors President, Jung Eui Sun.

As a American I know that the Korean archery teams are awesome... they brought in REO WILDE TO HELP THERE COMPOUND BOW TEAM... that dedication to archery that is famous world wide of all Asian nations no matter what discipline amazes me

The South Korean Archery is sponsored by Hyundai Group. Hyundai was supporting them for 40 years now.

Just proves that Archery is the most _Inclusive_ sport...!

She out shot the MEN too! In the ranking round the highest male was Kim Woo-jin with a 686. LIM Sihyeon shot a 694 which was 8 points higher than Woo-jin, same distance same size target. NAM Suhyeon of the woman's team also shot a 688!! 2 points higher than Woo-jin as well. Lim Sihyeon takes 3 golds along with Woo-jin taking 3 golds. Korea wins all golds Men/Women's Team, Mixed Team and both Men/Woman's individual golds. Women's Team mark their 10th Team Gold in a row for the last 10 Olympics. No one pays attention though outside of the Archery world so sad how much Olympic Archery gets no love.

i love ur video.. teaching english folk about korea and thousands of years of tradition in archery. i love it! im subscribing! people think archery is easy. its more intense then golf or ping pong. the dedication and the control n confidence u need.. people just dont know! its like shooting but harder.. now we have something on it! the start of the first western korean archery video in america... maybe we should have them come to the startes and promote in your area? i see u having a korea/america archery channel. lets u and i make something of them.. a north american tour maybe dropping in on archery clubs...we will need a producer and camera editing team..

Thanks for this video. Well said, mate.

Good on the girls. If they were shooting compound and US archers, then maybe they would have had a mention.

Korean national archery team selection is probably more entertaining than the Olympics. They have own league like the Korean Server in StarCraft lol

The men shot in the after when it’s windy.

Women outscored men generally in this Olympics. Second highest female point scorer, Nam Suhyeon, 688, also outscored all of the men.

우리 선수들을 주목받게 다뤄주셔서 한국인으로서 정말 감사드립니다.^^

Hi, it's not that simple, to say they kicked all the men archers 😅 it also depends on the wind the time they shoot. They didn't shot together to summarize it like that.

My theory about why these ladies (i.e most Korean archers since I started shooting competitively in 2008) shoot slightly better than men is that the men have too much muscle - it becomes raw strength and high poundages, which i hypothesize leads to less supple and sensitive muscles, or the general sense of one's muscles. I think the women probably shoot several poundages lower than the men, which means that they shoot worse in really windy and wet conditions (though still the best among women overall), but when conditions are decent to great, the bows are perfectly capable at 70m. With lower poundages, they are also probably just more able to feel the shot and set up the shot because they aren't attempting to put so much raw power into the equation/system.

Great observations, I’m pissed about the way nbc covers the Olympics Tom Lund

I don't think strenght or endurance has much to do with target shooting in archery: both in indoor and outdoor you shoot at predefined distances (except in 3D and field, but those disciplines aren't olympic), so you don't need much power to release the arrow, only consistency. A couple of years ago the winners at Vegas in both male and female were a 14/15 year old girl (two years in a row) and a 15 years old kid. Both are still highly competitive and did beat everyone. So you don't need to pull 60 pounds, even 20 or 30 are more than enough. This sport is more mentally demanding than physically demanding. You can win in it just with aotomatized kids; you just need to "weaponize autism" (in words of your fellow Austrailian Craig Jones).

Lim Si-Hyeon reminds me of another Olympic female champion, China’s Shan Zhang, a phenomenal Skeet shooter. In the Barcelona Olympics in 1992, Shan Zhang won gold in the Skeet shooting mixed event. Since that time the mixed Skeet shooting discipline has been deleted from the Olympic program and not long after the women’s skeet events. One could infer the men didn’t like it when they were beaten by women. Like Lim she was a very humble champion, a legend of her sport. And in the previous Olympics, there was An San, and before that Chang Hie-Jin..the list goes on.

Historically, Koreans were famous as the world's best archers. Archery is literally the reason this ethnic group survived among neighboring superpowers. Just as Japanese swords were considered the best in East Asia, Korean bows were also regarded same. However, unlike in Japan where swords were a symbol of the ruling class, archery was the core of Korea's unique militia culture and a game enjoyed by all Koreans regardless of class. The tradition continues even today, with many students joining the archery club at South Korean schools. That's why South Korea's archery completely dominated the Olympics Unlike Japanese and Han Chinese bows, Korean bows are classified into the same family as Mongolian and Turkic bows. These bows are made of several layers of different elasticity, and requires more than 50kg of force to pull them. Other agricultural countries created bows with a weaker pulling force to supply to unskilled conscripted soldiers, but Korea had making bows exceptionally strong for an agricultural society due to their unique militia culture. The culture made archery a daily sport for all Koreans, which enabled them to become proficient. In Korea, even when the government fled or collapsed, militias were organized to fight invaders. Historically, Korean Peninsula was envaded by neighboring empires. But commoners continued to resist by organizing militias and hiding in the mountains for guerrilla warfare. So, even the Yuan and Qing dynasties were able to subdue Korean kingdoms and nominally rule over Korean peninsula, this culture made the actual domination and cultural assimilation impossible. This is the secret to the Koreans, a small people group stuck between superpowers, maintaining their identity and not being assimilated for thousands of years. In the Joseon period, all classes such as farmers, scholars, and officials played archery as a daily sports game. According to records from the Joseon Dynasty, many archery ranges were installed in every city in Korea, and in large cities such as Seoul, there were hundreds. In addition, as can be seen from letters and receipts from the Joseon period, civilians enjoyed archery games by betting money like gambling, or by drinking alcohol and having the loser pay for the alcohol. Archery was also a basic skill for scholars, and the archery subject had the highest score in the exam to select military officers during the Joseon Dynasty.

Korean golf ladys arnt bad too.

let me tell you a truth. the golden medallist in Paris may not be national team for next Olympics.

Rooftop koreans have an ancient warrior lineage ❤ legit af

Do the women shoot at the same distance as the men? 70meters?

Making the Korean Archery Team is harder than the olympics itself.

hyeon like shaun

I think with the way that the Korean archery works with top shooters being on corporate teams etc in Korea they don't have to rely so heavily on self promotion like archers from every other country do. Of course the IOC is super strict about using the images etc without a license especially while the games are on. The media companies pay big bucks for Olympic licenses and the IOC is very controlling of who gets to show what. The IOC will DCMA you in a heart beat. Wait till the games finish then I suspect all the big archery companies will come out with promotional material. The only one that seems to be promoting their stuff right now for the Olympics is Ramrods.

There's no other team or individual that's more dominant in the Olympics than the Korean womens archery team. When LA 2028 rolls around, they'll be the undefeated and reining champ for 40 years. All gold medals won with a different team. That's absurd and should have waaay more media coverage.

It's harder than winning Olympic gold to become a representative of Korea😂

Strongly disagree with you. Technique more important then strengthboys have no advantage in archery. Unless its endurance maybe. Power is nothing without control..

For Korean archers, it is easy to win an Olympic gold medal, but it is difficult to rank first in the world. haha

They are very respected and loved in Korea, and they are pretty big deal. Sure their fame is not at level of Carl Luis worldwide but at least in Korea and are very well respected.

Lim is actually pronounced Im.

Let’s face it. Archery for regular folks only becomes relevant around the Olympics. But Korean archers actually gets paid well if they win gold. Hyundai motors is the main sponsor since 84. Before the 84, Koreans were no where this good

I wonder how the Koreans and Chinese are covered in their respective countries.

Honestly, if there's one "sport" where gender should be an afterthought, it's archery. Are you good, or are you not? UNREAL by the Korean women.

we just know another WR will mostly likely be broken by a korean woman anyways. so we downplay it.

Archery is just not that popular.. thats all there really is too it..

In my opinion Olympic archery is about the only sport that men and women could compete against each other. Although men tend to shoot more powerfully bows it is not a great advantage. Having watched women and men’s Olympic archery they tend to get similar scores.

For context, the world record for men’s is 700 in the Olympics and 702 in a World Cup. Those are by Kim Woo-Jin and Brady Ellison respectively. So she’s 6 pts off the Olympic record overall. That’s insane . She’s 21!

이 양반 뭘 모르시네. 다음 올림픽에 임시현이 못나올수 있어요. 도쿄 올림픽 3관왕인 안산선수가 한국 국가대표에서 탈락하고 임시현이 나온거라구요.

there has been more coverage of the anti-Christian show than all of our top archers. Forget the nationalities, cover our athletes.

They did well and are all great archers, but I was still hoping Korea would be dethroned. I mean 11 Olympic golds in a row !! First time in my Olympic watching life I cheered for China in that final match !! Korean archers are great because it's not just a hobby, it's a way of life for them. They do not even work....just practice archery. They are focused on archery when they are very very young. I read they do not even shoot and arrow or pick up a bow for the first two years. Not sure if that is true, but that level of commitment is pretty hard to beat. Especially in a sport where the margins are paper thin.

eat kimchi

I hear that they are well taken care of by the government, houses and stipend and things like that. But, not confirmed

Nothing in Korea. Supply and demand.

ITS BCZ SHE IS NOT AMERICAN....DUH !

They can’t deserve it.

Very true affirmations. Haters on going to hate. Pedigree doesn't lie

Was she from North Korea ?

You should stop talking Steve.