2024-07-27 19:53:08
The Olympic Games, known as the ‘Greatest Show on Earth’, will be officially inaugurated on Friday night. However, there was a world record before that. South Korean female archer Lim Si-hyun set a new world record by scoring 694 points in the women’s ranking round at the Paris Olympics on Thursday.
Lim scored 118 points out of a total of 120 points in the first two sets. At the end of four sets, his points were 234 out of 240! He finished the ranking round scoring 694 points out of 720 points. Which is a world record. Not only that, the highest score in the history of archery at the Olympics was 692 points. Lim broke that too. Besides, his compatriot Ann Sun set a record by scoring 680 points at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Lim broke that too.
Lim shot a total of 72 arrows and scored 694 points out of 720 points. Only 26 points lost.
Lim said, ‘This is my first Olympics. So the effort was to give the maximum. I have prepared enough for it by working hard. That is what I have tried to implement here. This result is the result of that.’
His record in the ranking round has not only brought him into the limelight, but has also energized the entire South Korean team.