Kim was part of the
2011 World Archery Championships gold medal-winning men's team and won the individual gold medal at the
2011 World Archery Championships and the
2012 FITA Archery World Cup. Despite this, he was not selected for the
2012 Korean Olympic team. In 2015, he was again selected for the Korean national team and became the first man since 1985 to win the
World Archery Championships twice. During the
Rio 2016 Summer Olympics, Kim set a world record during the individual men's qualifying round with a score of 700 out of a possible 720 (held under
World Archery Federation rules at a distance of 70 meters). The previous record of 699 was set by
Im Dong-hyun (also of South Korea) at the 2012 Olympics, However, in a major upset, Kim lost 2–6 in the second round in the individual category to Indonesia's
Riau Ega Agatha. He was one of the three members of the South Korean men's team who
won the Olympic gold medal in the team competition. At the
Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics, he earned a gold medal in the
men's team event and finished fifth in the
men's individual event. During the
Paris 2024 Summer Olympics, Kim earned an Olympic gold medal in the men's individual event after a tiebreaker with American archer
Brady Ellison. This victory marked Kim's fifth gold medal overall and his third consecutive Olympics in which he won a gold medal. In addition, Kim secured a gold medal in the men's team archery event, making him one of only two athletes, along with
Kim Soo-nyung, to achieve three consecutive team gold medals in archery at the Olympics. This made him South Korea's most successful Olympic athlete. His gold completed South Korea's clean sweep of archery at that Olympics. == Personal life ==