Kim Woojin completed a South Korean sweep of the Paris Olympic archery titles when he won the individual men’s gold on Sunday in a shoot-off with American Brady Ellison.
Kim and Ellison took turns winning the first four sets. With the fifth set at 4-4 the crowd were on the edge of their seats as the pair both got perfect scores, taking the match into a shoot-off.
Kim went first in the shoot-off, landing a 10. Ellison’s effort wasn’t as true, making a 9 to earn the silver for his fifth career Olympic medal.
Team USA’s Brady Ellison settles for silver in dramatic men’s archery final
In his fifth Olympic appearance, Brady Ellison was less than five millimeters away from his first Olympic gold.
The 35-year-old Arizona native fell to South Korea’s Kim Woo-jin 6-5 in a dramatic men’s archery gold medal match on Sunday.
Ellison, who was seeking his first career gold medal since first competing in the 2012 Games, now has three silver and two bronze medals.
This isn’t a game of inches. In archery, a gold medal can get decided by millimeters.
That distance – five millimeters – was all that separated the first gold medal for Brady Ellison in his fifth Olympics for the United States from a silver medal.
Their work kept alive Korea’s hopes for becoming the first-ever country to win all five gold medals across the archery discipline at the Games. Korea had already won gold in the mixed team, women’s team, men’s team and women’s individual events.
South Korea has now won all archery gold medals available at the past two Olympics, although the mixed team event was not included in the 2016 program.