{"id":22712,"date":"2012-07-27T16:17:48","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T13:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=22712"},"modified":"2012-07-27T16:22:39","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T13:22:39","slug":"legally-blind-archer-brocked-first-world-record-of-olympics-london-2012-olympics-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/legally-blind-archer-brocked-first-world-record-of-olympics-london-2012-olympics-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Legally blind archer brocked first world record of Olympics \/ London 2012 Olympics News"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>A South Korean archer who is legally blind set the first world record of the London 2012 Olympics in the men’s ranking round.<\/h1>\n

In the middle of the perfectly manicured training area of the iconic Lord\u2019s Cricket Ground, the photographers swarmed South Korean archer Im Dong-Hyun, jostling to capture a moment of history even before the London Olympics officially began.\u00a0Im Dong-hyun broke his own 72-arrow mark of 696 by three points and was also part of a record in the team shoot.<\/p>\n

Im, considered legally blind with 10 per cent vision in his left eye and 20 per cent in his right, set a new individual world record and was part of another world record-setting team in the ranking round of the men\u2019s archery event.<\/p>\n

Alongside Kim Bubmin and Oh Jin-hyek he helped register a 216-arrow total of 2,087 – smashing the world record by 18 points.<\/p>\n

The day’s shooting got under way in perfect conditions, with the Korean trio setting the standard from the off.<\/p>\n

Not bad for an athlete who says he just aims for a \u201cblow of yellow colour\u201d 70 metres away.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just the first round so I won\u2019t get too excited about it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

They took the three top seedings, with world number two Im again leading the way, breaking the world record for the third occasion since the London 2012 test event.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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