Kim Soo-nyung

Kim was 17 when she won individual and team gold at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, in front of a home crowd expecting exactly that. She added team gold and individual silver in Barcelona, stepped away from the sport, then returned for Sydney 2000 and won a fourth gold with the team plus individual bronze. Two world individual titles sit alongside those medals. The comeback is the telling part: rejoining Korea's brutal national selection after years away and still delivering at a Games.