Choi Misun lands Archery World Cup title for Women

Choi Misun (courtesy of the official website of Archery World Cup in Mexico City)

South Korea’s Choi Misun beat Deepika Kumari in the gold medal match at the Mexico City 2015 Archery World Cup Final. She adds it to a list of accomplishments that includes a gold and silver medal at World Cup stages, silver at the Universiade, World Archery Championships bronze and gold at the Olympic test event.

2015 is Choi’s first international year, and she managed to secure a number of titles at the age of 19. Misun was tested through her first two matches in Mexico City.

Both the quarterfinal against host nation representative Alejandra Valencia and the semi, contested by the USA’s Mackenzie Brown, went a full five sets.

“I just become Archery World Cup Champion, another title that makes me the first in the world,” said Choi, already ranked world number one after an incredible debut season. “This makes me happy and pretty sure it will help me to do even better as I would very much like to stay on top.”

Other Koreans in the contest were Kim Woo Jin, who secured a bronze medal in men competition; and Ki Bo Bae who lost to Taiwanese contestant, had won the golden medal back in London’s Olympics 2012.