Host Korea takes silver in mixed team recurve event at archery worlds

Korea's An San and Kim Woo-jin combined for the recurve mixed team silver medal at the world championships on home soil Wednesday. An and Kim, both Olympic champions, lost to the Spanish team of Elia Canales and Andres Temino Mediel 6-2 (36-35, 38-37, 36-38, 37-34) in the mixed team final at the May 18 Democracy Plaza in Gwangju, 270 kilometers south of Seoul. In mixed team archery matches, each member takes two arrows per set for four arrows and a maximum score of 40 points per team. A set win is worth two points and teams each get one point for a tie. The goal is to get to five points within four sets. The Koreans opened the first set with consecutive 8s and never recovered, losing it 36-35. An hit another 8 to start the second set, and the Spanish team took it 38-37. The Koreans bounced back in the third set but their fate was sealed after An opened the fourth set with a 7. She did not hit a 10 in the final. An, a 24-year-old Gwangju native, shot to stardom by winning gold medals in the women's team, women's individual and mixed team events at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. This was An's secoWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times