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South Korean archer Kim Woo-jin breaks world record in Rio Olympics (updated)

Xinhua, August 5, 2016 Adjust font size:

South Korea's Kim Woo-jin broke the world record on Friday for the archery men's individual event at the Rio Olympics when he scored 700 hits out of 72 arrows.

The 24-year-old Kim set the record in the ranking round in the morning, beating the previous world mark of 699 hits set by his compatriot Im Dong-hyun at the London Olympic Games four years ago.

"I practiced more than everyone else and I gave my best for the entire round. Tomorrow there is a more important match. In terms of celebrating today, nothing - I want to focus on tomorrow's match," said Kim who is the two-time individual gold medalist at the World Championships in 2011 and 2015.

Kim also collected the team gold medals on both occasions.

"I want to focus on the Games now but later, maybe, I'll get to enjoy Brazil," he added.

Boosted by Kim's record-setting feat, the South Koreans also topped the ranking round for team event as Ku Bon-chan and Lee Seung-yun scored 681 and 676 hits respectively. The total team hit of 2,057 is 30 hits shy of the world record also set by the South Korean team at the London Games. Endit