Three-time Olympic gold winner An San cannot defend her titles at the Paris Summer Olympics. According to bookie pay per head reports, she failed to qualify for the South Korean archery team by placing 21st in the country’s trials.
Three male and three female archers will be chosen to represent the dominant nation in the sport. South Korean archers won 25 Olympic medals in the past 10 games: 9 for women’s individual, 9 for women’s team, 5 for men’s team, and 2 for men’s individual events. Thus, bookie reports showed South Korea as a favorite for winning archery medals in Paris.
South Korea ranked top in Tokyo in the first-ever Olympic mixed-gender team event.
Three-Time Olympic Gold Winner An San Out of Paris Olympics
An won three gold medals in all three archery events at her first Olympic Games, making her the first archer to achieve this feat. Two months later, after losing to American Casey Kaufhold in the quarterfinals, An won bronze at the 2021 World Championships.
Kaufhold defeated An again. In addition, all three South Korean ladies were eliminated in the 2023 World quarterfinals. South Korea’s women’s team failed to win any medals at the global championship for the first time since 1979.
With her 20th birthday just around the corner, Kaufhold has become the first American woman to hold the number one rating since the rankings’ inception in 2001. According to sports betting experts, An was tenth overall and fourth among South Koreans. Also, the United States Olympic archery trials will end in May at Newberry, Florida.
