Indian archers get Olympic gold medallist Korean coach before World Cup
The Hindu
In a big boost to Indian archery ahead of the 2024 Paris Games, the national federation has hired Olympic gold medal-winning coach Baek Woong Ki to work with the recurve team.
In a big boost to Indian archery ahead of the 2024 Paris Games, the national federation has hired Olympic gold medal-winning coach Baek Woong Ki to work with the recurve team.
The South Korean, who oversaw his country's double gold medal-winning show in women's individual and team sections at London Olympics, will begin his India stint with the season-opening World Cup Stage 1, slated in Antalya, Turkey from April 18.
This is the first time after the 2014 Asian Games that India have hired a foreign coach.
In fact, the Archery Association of India (AAI) also have roped in two-time Italian World Cup winner Sergio Pagni, who is accompanying the compound team to the Turkey World Cup.
Woong Ki was initially part of the Centre of Excellence in SAI, Sonipat and now he has been given a contract till the Olympics.
"He has been made India recurve coach and will be till Asian Games and then the Olympics," Indian archery high performance director and Dronacharya Awardee Sanjeeva Singh told PTI.
The 44-year-old former world champion, Pagni, on the other hand, had been associated with the compound team since 2018, when he had conducted a training programme ahead of the Asian Games.
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