HIGHLIGHTS

• South Korea won their second straight gold in the men’s archery
• South Korea brushed aside Taiwan in the final to win gold medal
• South Korean men’s team has win gold 6 times at the Olympics

South Korea has defended its Olympic men’s archery team title at the Tokyo Games.

After surviving a close scare in the semifinal against host nation Japan, South Korea went ballistic in the final. They defeated Taiwan comprehensively by 6-0 to win the gold medal.

The South Korean men’s team has taken gold in the event six times at the Olympics.

At Tokyo, South Korea had already swept two gold medals in archery, with the women’s team tying for the longest gold streak in Olympic history with nine medals.

Earlier, an energetic 17-year-old Kim Je-deok came up clutch in the semifinals to hold off host nation Japan and then again in a 6-0 win over Chinese Taipei during the gold-medal match at Yumenoshima Park Archery Field.

One of the tricky things was trying to figure out an inconsistent wind on the eve of a possible typhoon moving into the region. The impending high wind and rain has already led to moving some of the following day’s matches to a different time.

In the bronze medal match, Hiroki Muto helped Japan beat the Netherlands in a shoot-off with a walk-off arrow that nearly landed in the heart of the target.

It is an historic bronze for Japan, their first ever medal in the event. It was another sensational shootoff. Muto Hiroki, who could have beaten Korea with a 10 with his final arrow in the previous shootoff of the semifinal, did it this time around.