Ahn Soo-kyeong
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality |
 South Korea |
| Born |
9 January 1987 Jeju City, South Korea[1] |
| Height | 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in) |
| Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Shooting |
| Event(s) |
10 m air pistol (AP40) 25 m pistol (SP) |
| Coached by | Kim Soon Pal[1] |
Ahn Soo-Kyeong (also An Su-Gyeong, Korean: 안 수경; born January 9, 1987 in Jeju City) is a South Korean sport shooter.[2] She won a gold medal in the women's air pistol at the 2003 ISSF World Cup in Fort Benning, Georgia, United States, accumulating a score of 485.2 points.[1]
At age seventeen, Ahn made her official debut for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where she competed in two pistol shooting events. She placed tenth out of forty-one shooters in the women's 10 m air pistol, with a score of 382 points. Three days later, Ahn competed for her second event, 25 m pistol, where she was able to shoot 286 targets in the precision stage, and 291 in the rapid fire, for a total score of 577 points, finishing only in thirteenth place.
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Ahn qualified for the second time in the women's 25 m pistol, along with her teammate Lee Ho-Lim. She finished only in eleventh place by one point behind Japan's Michiko Fukushima from the final attempt, for a total score of 581 points (288 in the precision stage and 293 in the rapid fire).[3]
References
- 1 2 3 "ISSF Profile – Ahn Soo-Kyeong". ISSF. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
- ↑ "Ahn Soo-Kyeong". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 18 January 2013.
- ↑ "Women's 25m Pistol Qualification". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 18 January 2013.