In 2021, while at Seoul Sports High School, she finished first in the first national team trials and began to get noticed.
The breakthrough yearThe year she turned 20, she finished first in the national team’s final evaluation in April and made the national team for the first time. In May, she won both the individual and team events at the Shanghai World Cup, and in June she won the individual event again at the Medellin World Cup. In August, she won mixed team gold at the World Championships in Berlin, her first medal at a major championship. In October, at her first multi-sport Games, the Hangzhou Asian Games, she won the mixed team, team and individual events, the first Asian Games archery triple in 37 years. In November, she won the team and mixed team events at the Asian Championships in Bangkok.
The year she turned 21, she received the Korean Sport & Olympic Committee grand prize in February. In July, she shot 694 in the Paris Olympics ranking round, a world record and an Olympic record.
At the Paris Olympics, she won the women’s team and mixed team events and then the individual event for three golds, and after the Games she was named a team MVP with Kim Woo-jin.
In October, she won four golds at the National Sports Festival, in the individual, team, 50 m and 60 m events. She lost a close quarterfinal at the World Cup Final, and in November she received the performance prize at the 62nd Korea Sports Awards for her Hangzhou Asian Games triple.
The year she turned 22, she finished first in the national team trials again in April. In May, wording in a social media post drew criticism, and she apologized four months later. In June, she won the individual and mixed team events at the Antalya World Cup, and in September she took women’s team bronze at the Gwangju World Championships but lost in the individual quarterfinals. In October, she won the Chung Mong-koo Cup for the first time.
The year she turned 23, she finished 10th in the national team trials in March and missed the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games.
Lim Si-hyeon (born Jun 13, 2003) made the national team for the first time on Apr 21, 2023, the year she turned 20, by finishing first in the final evaluation, and became known when she won three golds at the Hangzhou Asian Games on Oct 7, 2023, the year she turned 20. In 2024, the year she turned 21, she won three golds at the Paris Olympics as well.
Ages are by calendar year (the year minus the birth year), birthdays aside.