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Choi Won-jong

South Korean archer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ5103981 ↗
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Choi Won-jong (Korean: 최원종; born January 13, 1978) is a South Korean archer. At the 2005 Korean National Sports Festival in Ulsan, Choi set a world record by shooting a perfect score of 120 (twelve consecutive shots in the bullseye) in the semifinals of the club-division archery individual competition.

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“Choi Won-jong” enters the record as south Korean archer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Choi, Won-jong and South can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1978, 2005—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1978-01-13. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Choi, Won-jong and South.
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This entry incorporates text from “Choi Won-jong” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.