Ahn Soo-kyeong explained

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Ahn Soo-kyeong
Birth Date:9 January 1987
Birth Place:Jeju City, South Korea
Weight:650NaN0
Sport:Shooting
Event:10 m air pistol (AP40)
25 m pistol (SP)
Coach:Kim Soon Pal
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Ahn Soo-kyeong (also An Su-Gyeong, Korean: 안수경; born January 9, 1987, in Jeju City) is a South Korean sport shooter.[1] She won a gold medal in the women's air pistol at the 2003 ISSF World Cup in Fort Benning, Georgia, United States, accumulating a score of 485.2 points.[2]

At age seventeen, Ahn made her official debut for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where she competed in two pistol shooting events. She placed tenth out of forty-one shooters in the women's 10 m air pistol, with a score of 382 points. Three days later, Ahn competed for her second event, 25 m pistol, where she was able to shoot 286 targets in the precision stage, and 291 in the rapid fire, for a total score of 577 points, finishing only in thirteenth place.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Ahn qualified for the second time in the women's 25 m pistol, along with her teammate Lee Ho-Lim. She finished only in eleventh place by one point behind Japan's Michiko Fukushima from the final attempt, for a total score of 581 points (288 in the precision stage and 293 in the rapid fire).[3]

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Notes and References

  1. Ahn Soo-Kyeong. https://web.archive.org/web/20200417233624/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/an/an-su-gyeong-1.html. dead. 17 April 2020. 18 January 2013.
  2. Web site: ISSF Profile – Ahn Soo-Kyeong. ISSF. 18 January 2013.
  3. Web site: Women's 25m Pistol Qualification . . 18 January 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120816053058/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/shooting/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DSHW204902/index.html . 16 August 2012 .