Korean Archery, Special Training in the Strong Wind

Place des Invalides, where the Olympic archery competitions are held, is adjacent to the Seine River… Prepare for weather variables

This is the attitude of Korean archery in preparation for the 2024 Paris Olympics, which is two months away.

Korea is aiming to sweep all five gold medals (men and women's recurve individual, men and women's team, and mixed) in the archery events at the Paris Olympics.

In the women's team event, which has never missed the top spot since the 1988 Seoul Olympics, they are attempting to win their 10th consecutive title. 메이저사이트

Although Korean archery is recognized by everyone as the best in the world, it is not arrogant.

She is preparing even more thoroughly for a perfect gold medal.

This time it is Yeoju, Gyeonggi-do.

Go to the Namhan River.

The Korea Archery Association plans to secure a training site in the southern part of Korea and conduct 'Gangbaram Special Training' for Taegeuk archers at the end of June.

This is because the grassy park north of the Place des Invalides in Paris, France, where the archery competition will be held, is adjacent to the Seine River that runs through Paris.

The calculation is that if they practice shooting arrows while the river wind blows, they won’t be flustered by the river wind blowing along the Seine River.

The national team, consisting of Kim Woo-jin (Cheongju City Hall), Kim Je-deok (Yecheon County Office), and Lee Woo-seok (Kolon) on the men’s side and Im Si-hyeon (Korea National Sport University), Jeon Hoon-young (Incheon City Hall), and Nam Su-hyeon (Suncheon City Hall) on the women’s side, will take the final step of the ‘gold medal process’ for the Paris Olympics with special training along the Namhangang River after the third World Cup competition to be held in Antalya, Turkey in the middle of next month.

The archery national team has conducted mock training considering the climate and terrain of the actual stadium where the Olympics are held.

Ahead of the 2021 Tokyo Olympics, they went to Dumo Sports Park in Jaeun Island, Sinan, Jeollanam-do to adapt to the environment.

The Umenoshima Archery Field, where the Tokyo Olympic archery competition was held, is located on the coast, so it has unfavorable conditions such as the sea breeze and sunlight changing from moment to moment.

The Korean archery team, which was exposed to the sea breeze in Jaeun Island in advance, produced the women's 'triple crown' Ansan (Gwangju Bank) and the men's 'double crown' Kim Je-deok.

In addition to a training ground that takes climate and environment into account, a mock set that takes visual and auditory aspects into account has already been prepared.

Earlier this month, the Korea Archery Association installed a set identical to the Olympic archery stadium that will be installed in Place des Invalides at the Jincheon National Athletes’ Village in North Chungcheong Province.

The goal is to make the body and mind as familiar as possible by training in the ‘mock Olympic stadium’ right before boarding the flight to Paris for actual environment adaptation training.

In the first special match in preparation for the Olympics held from the 7th to the 9th, a large LED screen was installed in addition to the structure to display the players’ heart rates in real time.

The announcer’s voice introducing the players and the cheers of the audience were also played through the speakers.

In addition to the 'Jincheon Set' that familiarizes the senses with sight and hearing, and the 'Yeoju Training Center' that prepares for the climate and terrain, there were also 'tournaments' that took into account social and cultural status.

This was the Chung Mong-koo Cup Korea Archery Competition held at the War Memorial of Korea in Yongsan-gu, Seoul in September last year.

The Place des Invalides is a French military cultural facility that houses Napoleon's tomb, and its cultural significance was considered similar to that of the War Memorial of Korea.

Although it fell through due to procedural and environmental conditions, the Korea Archery Association is said to have considered holding event matches at the plaza in front of Seoul City Hall and Gwanghwamun Plaza in front of Sejong Center for the Performing Arts, taking into account the 'social and cultural geography' of the Place des Invalides located in the heart of the city.

From the weather of the stadium to its actual appearance, to its historical and cultural background.

The background of the national archery team maintaining its status as the world's best is 'preparation' that takes into account various variables of the stadium.