She is the first South Korean to win more than two medals in a single Summer Games. She is also the first woman since 1904 to win three golds in archery at the same Olympics. The school team, newly formed at the time, was only for boys, but the young An insisted she also wanted to learn. At first, the school principal advised her to move to another school if she wanted to do archery, coach Kim Seong-eun told South Korean radio. But An would not cave in and eventually the school founded an archery team for girls because of her, said Kim.

Source: The Star August 03, 2021 06:56 UTC