2 defending champions left off Korean team for Mexico

The Korean team at the 2017 World Archery Championships will be without two of its reigning world champions as Ki Bo Bae and Kim Yunhee were left off the registration sheet. Kim Woojin, who also won gold in Copenhagen in 2015, and Olympic Champion Chang Hye Jin did make the squad.

Teams of four athletes in each category were announced at the start of the year, with the final three to represent Korea at the worlds selected on results over the season.

The Korean team in Mexico City has been confirmed as: Kim Woojin, Oh Jin Hyek, Im Dong Hyun, Chang Hye Jin, Choi Misun, Kang Chae Young, Choi Yonghee, Hong Sung Ho, Kim Jongho, Choi Bomin, So Chaewon and Song Yun Soo.

Ki Bo Bae, who also came third at the Olympics in 2016 and won the recent Hyundai Archery World Cup Final in Rome, is the most surprising absence.

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France announced its squad for Mexico on 25 September:

Recurves: Audrey Adiceom, Noemie Brianne, Laura Ruggieri, Thomas Chirault, Pierre Plihon and Jean-Charles Valladont.

Compounds: Lucie Burnet, Laure de Matos, Sandra Herve, Pierre-Julien Deloche, Dominique Genet and Sebastien Peineau.

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Atanu Das, Mangal Singh Champia, Tarundeep Rai, Deepika Kumari, Monika Saren and Promila Daimary are tipped to be India’s recurve squad.

They’ll be joined by compound archers Aman Saini, Gurwinder Singh, Abhishek Verma, Trisha Deb, Lily Chanu Paonam and Jyothi Surekha Vennam. Rajat Chauhan, who finished second in Copenhagen in 2015, does not return.

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Great Britain’s 11-athlete squad in Mexico will be led by Olympians Naomi Folkard (2004, 2008, 2012, 2016) and Patrick Huston (2016). 

Tom Hall, Alex Wise, Bryony Pitman, Sarah Bettles, James Mason, Luke Ralls, Lucy O’Sullivan, Lucy Mason and Susan Corless complete the team. With only two compound men travelling, it will be the only division in which the Brits do not field a team.

The 2017 World Archery Championships run 15-22 October in Mexico City, Mexico.