The 'Olympic Gold Medal is Hard' Korean archery national team selection Korea will be posted! For 5 days, "2026 AG Jung Jo-joon"

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The competition to select the Korean archery team, which is more difficult than winning the Olympic gold medal, has begun in earnest.

The Korea Archery Association said on the 12th, "The third national archery competition for 2026 will be held at Kim Su-nyeong Archery Field in Cheongju, Chungcheongbuk-do for five days from March 16 to 20."

This selection match is a competition in which players who passed the first and second selection matches held last year participate. It marks the opening of this year's archery season, and a total of 80 athletes, 20 men and women from recurve and compound, will compete fiercely for the 2026 national team title.

The game will be played in a combination of record games, tournaments, and league games, and points will be given for each ranking according to the results of each game. It will be held over a total of five rounds, and 16 players each from recurve and compound men and women will advance to the second to fifth rounds based on the total number of points on the first day of the competition (first round).

After the end of the fifth round, the top eight men's and women's recurve and compound will be selected for the 2026 national team, depending on the final results. In particular, as the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games will be held this year, the selection match is expected to be more competitive.

Gwangju tax held in Korea last year, including Kim Woo-jin (Cheongju City Hall), Kim Je-deok (Yecheon County Office), Lee Woo-seok (Kolon), Kang Chae-young, Lim Si-hyun (Hyundai Mobis), and Ansan (Gwangju Bank)

It is expected that the players who have played for the national team of the relay championship will do well.

In addition, a large number of Olympic medalists, including Koo Bon-chan (Hyundai Steel), Choi Mi-sun (Gwangju Bank), Jang Min-hee and Jeon Hoon-young (Incheon City Hall), also participated, signaling fierce competition. In addition, the challenges of young players such as Kim Sun-woo (Kolon), Min Seo-ki (National Military Sports Unit), Oh Ye-jin (Gwangju Bank), and Lee Yu-ji (Hyundai Mobis) are also considered a point to watch.

In the compound, which was adopted as an official event for the first time at the 2028 LA Olympics, fierce competition is also expected. Top players such as Choi Yong-hee, Kim Jong-ho (Hyundai Steel), Yang Jae-won, Choi Eun-kyu (Ulsan Nam-gu Office), Oh Yoo-hyun (Jeonbuk Provincial Office), So Chae-won, Jo Su-ah (Hyundai Mobis), and Han Seung-yeon (Hyundai Department Store) are expected to show strong performances.

On top of that, Joo Jae-hoon (KHNP), who was selected as the representative of the Hangzhou Asian Games and wrote "The Dongho-in Myth," and Lee Kwang-sung (Daejeon Sports Council), a former recurve national team member who succeeded in converting the compound last year, joined the competition.

In addition, compound newcomers such as Kim Kang-min (Incheon Yeongseo), Lee Eun-ho, Park Ye-rin (Korea National Sports University), and Ryu Ye-in (Cheongju City Hall) are drawing attention by challenging themselves. The 2026 archery team, selected through the third round of selection, will confirm the final entry to compete in major international competitions, including the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, after two final warm-up matches in March and April.

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