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South Korea has won every Olympic women's team archery gold medal since the event was introduced at Seoul 1988 — 10 consecutive titles by Paris 2024, one of the longest unbroken streaks by any national programme in any sport
Ten out of ten. Every time Olympic women’s team archery has been held, the same flag has gone up at the medal ceremony. The event joined the Olympic programme at the 1988 Seoul Games, and South Korea has won gold at every Games since. In France that run reached ten straight titles. The latest one nearly slipped away. At Paris 2024, three first-time Olympians, Lim Si-hyeon, Nam Su-hyeon and Jeon Hun-young, beat China 5-4 in a shoot-off. Jeon desc…