Shooting team win third silver in men's 25 meter rapid fire

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Published: 25 Sep. 2023, 14:47 Updated: 25 Sep. 2023, 14:48

Shooting team win third silver in men's 25 meter rapid fire

Korea takes silver in the men's team 10 meter air rifle competition, winning its first shooting medal at the 19th Asian Games on Monday. [AP/YONHAP]

Korea secured its third medal in shooting at the 19th Asian Games with a silver medal finish in the men’s 25 meter rapid fire pistol team contest in Hangzhou, China on Monday.

The three-person team of Song Jong-ho, Lee Gun-hyeok and Kim Seo-jun scored a total 1,734 points, coming behind China, with 1,765 points, but ahead of India, with 1,718 points.

Song, 33, and Kim, 32, were part of the team that won gold in the men’s 25 meter rapid fire pistol team contest during the 2014 Games in Incheon.

Kim, who at the time went by the name Kim Jung-ho, also won gold in the individual contest, along with two silver medals in the 25 meter standard pistol men’s individual and team events in 2014. He then went on to win bronze in the 25 meter rapid fire pistol at the 2018 Games in Jakarta, Indonesia.

None of the three men qualified for the gold medal round in the individual event.

Korea’s other podium finishes in shooting on Monday came from the 10 meter air rifle contest, winning silver in both the team and individual categories.

Korea’s first shooting medal came from the three-person team of Park Ha-jun, Nam Tae-yun and Kim Sang-do, who together scored 1890.1 points, coming behind champion India’s 1893.7 but ahead of China’s 1888.2.

Park, 23, then went on to compete in the men’s individual contest, finishing second. He scored 251.3 points, coming a hair behind China’s Sheng Lihao, who scored 253.3 points, but well ahead of India’s Aishwary Pratap Singh Tomar, with a score of 228.8.

A total of eight athletes had qualified for a shot at the gold medal, and Park had ranked second among the medal contenders ahead of the round.

Park’s 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 10 meter air rifle team competition at the previous games, five years ago in Jakarta, Indonesia.

BY MARY YANG [mary.yang@joongang.co.kr]