South Korean archery team matches longest Olympic gold streak - 10 gold medals in a row

(Fromcleft) Gold medalists South Korea's Jeon Hunyoung, South Korea's Lim Sihyeon and South Korea's Lim Sihyeon pose on the podium of the archery Women's team final during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Esplanade des Invalides in Paris on July 28, 2024. - AFP

PARIS (dpa): South Korea edged China to win a 10th straight women's archery team event gold medal on Sunday which equalled the longest active win streak for a nation in an event at the summer Olympics.

The South Korean trio of Jeon Hunyoung, Lim Sihyeon and Nam Suhyeon led by two sets but the Chinese roared back to tie before the Koreans prevailed 5-4 after posting 29 from 30 possible points in the shoot-out to China's 27.

South Korea are unbeaten in the women's team event which made its debut at the Seoul home Games in 1988, and have won 18 of the 19 overall Olympic women's events in the period.

The 10 team golds in a row match the US men's 4x100m medley swim team, the Olympic news service said. The swimmers can move one ahead again on 11 in the Paris Games' final next Sunday.

Mexico beat the Netherlands 6-2 to take bronze, after ousting reigning world champions Germany in the quarter-finals.- dpa