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South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea, competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. It was the nation's nineteenth appearance at the Summer Olympics, except Moscow 1980, as part of US-led boycott.
The United States led the final medal table for the fourth consecutive Summer Games, with 40 gold and 126 total medals, while China finished second with 40 gold and 91 medals in total. [15] The occasion marked the first time a gold medal tie among the two most successful nations has occurred in Summer Olympics history. [ 16 ]
The programme of the 2024 Summer Olympics featured 329 events in 32 sports, including the 28 "core" Olympic sports contested in 2016 and 2020, [1] and four optional sports that were proposed by the Paris Organising Committee: breaking made its Olympic debut as an optional sport, while skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing returned from 2020.
Australia was the lead for medals after a spectacular first day in road cycling and swimming, with South Korea close behind. But with so many events left to come, the race is very much wide open.
The United States won the 2024 Olympics overall medal count with 126. China was second with 91, and Great Britain was third with 65. Host nation France finished with 64 total medals.
South Korea won its first medals as an independent nation at its first appearance in 1948, and won its first gold medal in 1976. South Korean athletes have won a total of 287 medals at the Summer Games, with the most gold medals won in archery, and 79 medals at the Winter Games, a majority in short track speed skating. The nation has won more ...
A daily breakdown of which countries are leading the overall medal count in the 2024 Paris Olympics. ... with Lee Kiefer defeating Lauren Scruggs 15-6 to defend her 2020 Tokyo Olympics gold medal ...
Lim Si-hyeon (Korean: 임시현; born 13 June 2003) is a South Korean archer. She won three gold medals at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the individual, team and mixed team events. By virtue of winning all three gold medals in the same Olympic Games, Lim became the second person to do so, matching her compatriot, An San, at the 2020 Summer Olympics.