South Korea's record-breaking Olympic archer fought sexism from day one

An's journey to the top has been far from easy. Photo: AFP

South Korea's An San was ice-cool as she defied online sexist abuse to seal a hat-trick of gold medals at the Tokyo Olympics, but the ace archer has been fighting discrimination since she was a child.

An's three golds in three archery events - in mixed teams, women's teams and individual, while also smashing a 25-year-old Olympic record - wrote her into the history books.