Choi Mi-sun is one of the most popular and richest Archer who was born on July 1, 1996 in Illo, Kebbi State, Nigeria.
Choi Mi-sun (Korean pronunciation: [tɕʰwe̞.mi.sʌn] ; born 1 July 1996) is a female South Korean recurve archer. She won gold medal in the women’s team event at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
At the Olympics Games in August the women’s team event landed Choi her first Olympic medal, the Korean trio comfortably defeating Russia in the gold medal final by five set points to one amid difficult conditions. The victory brought South Korea’s eighth successive women’s team Olympic title. Choi’s performance in the women’s individual event was however more mixed. She began strongly in the 72-arrow ranking round, and was on course to surpass the twenty-year old Olympic record score of 673 set by Lina Herasymenko before breezy conditions developed mid-way through the round and halted her progress. She nevertheless earned the top seed for the elimination stages after ranking first with 669 points from a maximum of 720, three points ahead of Chang and six ahead of Ki. She was however eliminated in the quarter-finals by Alejandra Valencia, the 2011 Pan American Games double gold medalist, in a surprise result. A score of five on her first arrow began a subpar performance which ended in Choi losing in straight sets.
In October Choi was one of nine athletes honoured with a national award for sporting excellence at the 55th Korea Sports Awards.
