Two Korean shooters Oh Ye-jin and Kim Ye-ji have just won gold and silver medals in the women's 10m air pistol final at the 2024 Paris Olympics .
Oh Ye-jin won the gold medal by setting an Olympic record with 243.2 points. Kim Ye-ji placed second with 241.3 points and won the silver medal.
This is the first time a pair of Korean shooters have led an Olympic shooting event since Jin Jong-oh (gold medalist) and Choi Young-rae (silver medalist) in the men's 50m pistol event at the Olympics. London Olympics 2012.
In addition, this is also the first time Korea has won an Olympic gold medal in the women's 10m air gun shooting event.
On the first day of competition (July 27), the Korean shooting team won the silver medal in the 10m mixed air rifle event with Park Ha-jun and Geum Ji-hyeon.
With 2 more medals on July 28, the Korean sports team had a total of 2 gold medals, 2 silver medals and 1 bronze medal.
Thanks to that, Korean shooting has regained its position as the sport that made its name at the Olympics. Korea has won a total of 7 gold, 9 silver and 1 bronze medals at the Olympics. Shooting is often a subject that is scheduled to compete early at conferences, so it receives even more attention.
It started with Yeo Gap-soon winning the first gold medal for Korean shooting in the women's 10m air rifle event at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. Then, Kang Cho-hyun got a silver medal at Sydney 2000. In particular, "shooting king" Jin Jong-oh won 4 gold medals in 3 Olympics. Therefore, it is no exaggeration that shooting plays an important role in opening the door to winning medals at each Olympics.
But after Jong-oh's gold medal in the men's 50m pistol event at Rio 2016, the Korean shooting team was left empty-handed at Tokyo 2020. That result left great disappointment for fans, and a great surprise. The conference in Paris is even more anticipated. Oh Ye-jin's gold medal was a big surprise when she was only 19 years old, had just joined the national shooting team a year ago and had her first Olympic appearance.
In addition to success in the 10m mixed air rifle and 10m women's air pistol events, Korea Republic also reached Lee Won-ho in the final of the men's 10m air pistol event, but unfortunately did not win a medal with 197. .9 points, ranked 4th overall.
Won-ho will have the opportunity again as Oh Ye-jin's teammate to participate in the mixed air pistol event taking place tomorrow, July 29.
