An San

An San (Korean: 안산; Hanja: 安山, born 27 February 2001) is a South Korean archer competing in women's recurve events. She won three gold medals at the 2020 Summer Olympics, in the women's team, mixed team and Individual events, becoming the first archer in Olympic history to do so at a single Games. An also set a new Olympic Record scoring 680 points at the Women's Individual Archery's Ranking Round. The previous record of 673 points was set by Ukrainian Lina Herasymenko at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

An San
Personal information
Native name안산
National team South Korea
CitizenshipSouth Korean
Born (2001-02-27) 27 February 2001
Gwangju, South Korea
EducationGwangju Women's University
Height173.7 cm (5 ft 8 in)
Sport
CountrySouth Korea
SportArchery
Rank6 (as of 6 November 2023)
EventRecurve
University teamGwangju Women's University
Achievements and titles
Highest world ranking1 (as of 27 September 2021)
Medal record
Women's recurve archery
Representing  South Korea
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 3 0 0
World Championships 2 0 1
Archery World Cup 6 0 1
Asian Games 1 1 0
Total 12 1 2
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Women's individual 4 0 1
Women's team 5 0 1
Mixed team 3 0 0
Olympic Games
2020 Tokyo Individual
2020 Tokyo Team
2020 Tokyo Mixed team
World Championships
2021 Yankton Team
2021 Yankton Mixed team
2021 Yankton Individual
World Cup Final
2022 Tlaxcala Individual
Asian Games
2022 HangzhouWomen's team
2022 HangzhouIndividual

On March 16, 2024, she posted an image of a Japanese-style shopping street sign in Gwangju, Gyeonggi on SNS with the phrase "Why are there so many traitors in Korea?" This caused the representative of a franchise company operating a tavern that had moved into the shopping district in question to be slandered on the Internet, which was reported internationally.

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