Air rifle team take silver in men's 10 meter competition
![Park Ha-jun, 23, participates in the men's 10 meter air rifle shooting competition at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, China. [YONHAP]](https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/data/photo/2023/09/25/14ccd08b-b50b-47b2-839b-d5d4509486b6.jpg)
Park Ha-jun, 23, participates in the men's 10 meter air rifle shooting competition at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, China. [YONHAP]
Korea took silver in the 10 meter air rifle men’s team contest at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, China on Monday.
The three-person team of Park Ha-jun, Nam Tae-yun and Kim Sang-do scored 1890.1 points, coming behind champion India’s 1893.7 but ahead of China’s 1888.2.
It was Korea’s first medal in shooting at this year’s Asiad.
Park, 23, had also qualified for the individual men’s 10 meter air rifle contest, which had yet to begin as of press time. A total of eight athletes qualified for a shot at the gold medal, and Park ranked second among the gold medal contenders ahead of the round.
His father is Park Byung-taek, who won a total of five gold medals for Korea in shooting at the Asian Games between 1990 and 2010, according to the Games official website.
Kim, 36, is also competing in the men’s 50 meter rifle three-positions contest set to begin Friday.
Korea also took home silver in the men’s 10 meter air rifle team at the 2014 Games in Incheon. There was no men's 10 meter air rifle team competition at the previous games, five years ago in Jakarta, Indonesia.
BY MARY YANG [mary.yang@joongang.co.kr]
with the Korea JoongAng Daily
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