Kang Chae-young

Kang Chae-young

File:Kang Chae-young, 2025 Archery World Championship.jpg Kang in 2025
Personal information
Born	(1996-06-08) 8 June 1996 Ulsan, South Korea
Sport
Country	South Korea
Sport	Archery
Event	Recurve
Medal record Women's recurve archery Representing South Korea Olympic Games Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo Team World Championships Gold medal – first place 2017 Mexico City Team Gold medal – first place 2017 Mexico City Mixed team Gold medal – first place 2019 's-Hertogenbosch Mixed team Gold medal – first place 2021 Yankton Team Gold medal – first place 2025 Gwangju Inidividual Silver medal – second place 2019 's-Hertogenbosch Individual Silver medal – second place 2019 's-Hertogenbosch Team Bronze medal – third place 2015 Copenhagen Team Bronze medal – third place 2025 Gwangju Team World Cup Final Gold medal – first place 2019 Moscow Individual Gold medal – first place 2019 Moscow Mixed team Asian Games Gold medal – first place 2018 Jakarta Team Bronze medal – third place 2018 Jakarta Individual Summer Universiade Gold medal – first place 2017 Taipei Individual Gold medal – first place 2017 Taipei Team Gold medal – first place 2019 Naples Individual Gold medal – first place 2019 Naples Team Silver medal – second place 2015 Gwangju Team Asian Championships Gold medal – first place 2019 Bangkok Individual Gold medal – first place 2019 Bangkok Team Gold medal – first place 2019 Bangkok Mixed team

Kang Chae-young (Korean: 강채영, born 8 June 1996) is a South Korean archer competing in women's recurve events. She has won numerous medals in archery competitions.

Kang was born in Ulsan, South Korea. She attended Ulsan Jung-ang Elementary School.

Career

At the 2017 Summer Universiade held in Taipei, Taiwan, she won the gold medal in the women's individual recurve and women's team recurve events. In the same year, she also won the gold medals in the team and mixed team events at the 2017 World Archery Championships held in Mexico City, Mexico.

In 2018, she represented South Korea at the Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia and she won two medals: the bronze medal in the women's individual recurve event and the gold medal in the women's team recurve event.

In 2019, she won the gold medal in the women's recurve event in the final of the 2019 Archery World Cup. This was her first Archery World Cup final. She also won the stages of the competition held in both Medellín, Colombia and Shanghai, China. At the 2019 World Archery Championships, she broke the world record for the 70m ranking round with a score of 692, before medalling in the individual, mixed team and team events. In that same year, she won the gold medal in the women's individual, women's team and mixed team events at the 2019 Asian Archery Championships held in Bangkok, Thailand.

In 2020, she won the 2019 World Archery Athlete of the Year award in the recurve women's category.

In 2021, she qualified in first place for the South Korean women's team nominated to the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan and won the gold medal in the women's team event. Two months later, she also won the gold medal in the women's team event at the 2021 World Archery Championships held in Yankton, United States.

Her nickname is "The Destroyer."