Chang Hye-jin

Chang won a silver medal at the 2019 World Archery Championships, reaching the final of the women's team recurve event with Choi Mi-sun and Kang Chae-young before losing to Chinese Taipei in the final, whose victory over their Korean rivals earned the nation its maiden title at the championships. She was identified by the magazine Bow International in July as having noticeably dipped in form since the beginning of 2018. In September Chang was eliminated from the national selection process for the 2020 Summer Olympics, precluding her from defending her Olympic titles in Tokyo.

Chang began 2018 strongly with victory in the first stage of the 2018 Archery World Cup in Shanghai, dropping just two points in the final against China's An Qixuan. In the second set she placed her three arrows within three centimetres of one another inside the target's inner-10 ring, a feat lauded by Mike Rowbottom of Inside the Games as "possibly the single best recurve group ever filmed". One month later Chang reached the final of the World Cup's second stage in Antalya, but following a one-arrow shoot-off was defeated by Ksenia Perova for the second time in twelve months.

Chang became the world's top female recurve archer in June 2017. She continued her success at the top of the game after qualifying for the annual Archery World Cup final in September, winning gold with Kim Woojin in the mixed team event and bronze in the women's individual competition. She achieved a further team gold medal at the World Archery Championships held in Mexico City the following month, and with teammates Choi Mi-sun and Kang Chae-young defeated host nation Mexico in the final, earning South Korea its thirteenth World Championship women's team gold medal. Chang also reached the final of the women's individual event, but after struggling in the windy conditions lost against the Russian world number three Ksenia Perova.

In the spring of 2016 Chang won qualification for the South Korean Olympic team on her second attempt, joining the reigning Olympic champion Ki Bo-bae and the women's recurve world number one Choi Mi-sun for the women's individual and women's team events in Rio de Janeiro. Although the trio were widely expected to win their nation's eighth consecutive Olympic gold medal in the team competition, it was Choi and Ki who were tipped for success in the individual discipline after strong performances in the 2015 World Archery Championships, with Chang later being described by Reuters as the "least-fancied" of the three Korean women.

Chang's achievements earned her the accolade of top female athlete at the 2016 Korea Woman Sports Awards.

Chang made her debut at the biennial World Archery Championships in 2013, winning the women's team recurve title with Ki Bo-bae and Yun Ok-hee after defeating Belarus in a low-scoring final. Eleven months later she won two medals at the 2014 Asian Games, reaching the gold medal match in both the women's team and women's individual recurve events. With teammates Jung Dasomi and Lee Tuk-young she secured South Korea's fifth consecutive women's team title after a comfortable victory over China, but was outshot by Jung by seven set points to three in the individual final.

Having taken up archery at an early age, Chang made her international debut in 2008 and first qualified for the senior national team two years later. She narrowly missed out on selection for the 2012 Summer Olympics in London but later secured team gold medals at the 2013 World Archery Championships and 2014 Asian Games. Following her success at the Olympics in Rio she achieved further medals at the World Archery Championships and Asian Games, and remained a prominent competitor at the Archery World Cup. Chang held the position as the number one female recurve archer in the World Archery Rankings from 2017 to 2019.

Chang made her international debut in 2008 at the World University Games held in Chinese Taipei. The following year she was selected to compete in Summer Universiade in Belgrade, winning gold medal in the women's team recurve event. She successfully qualified for the South Korean senior team in 2010, but in 2012 narrowly missed out on selection for that year's Summer Olympics in London, placing fourth in the national team trials in which the top three were chosen for Olympic competition.

Chang Hye-jin (Korean: 장혜진 ; Korean pronunciation: [tɕɐŋ.çe.dʑin] or [tɕɐŋ] [çe.dʑin] ; born 13 May 1987) is a South Korean archer and two-time Olympic gold medalist. She achieved both her gold medals at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, winning in both the women's team and women's individual events.

Chang Hye-jin was born on 13 May 1987 in the city of Daegu. She was first introduced to archery at the age of eleven and participated in her first national tournament two years later. She won her first tournament during her second year of high school in Daegu, and after studying at Daegu's Keimyung University, joined the Seoul-based LH team to shoot professionally. As of August 2018 she remains a member of the LH team.