South beat North to take gold in team running target shooting

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South beat North to take gold in team running target shooting

Published: 25 Sep. 2023, 16:15 Updated: 26 Sep. 2023, 13:55

Jeong You-jin wins two medals for Korea in the men's team and individual 10 meter running target contests, taking gold and bronze, respectively. [NEWS 1]

South Korea took gold in the men’s team 10 meter target range running contest, beating the North Korean team by a hair during the 19th Asian Games on Monday.

The win marked South Korea’s first gold medal in shooting at this year’s Asiad. The team of Jeong You-jin, Ha Kwang-chul and Kwak Yong-bin scored 1,668 points. The North Korean team also scored 1,668 points but lost on 10s, with South Korea winning 39 to North Korea’s 29.

In the running target contest, shooters aim at a target that moves sideways and is pulled at either a slow or fast speed.

Jeong, 39, also took bronze in the individual category. Jeong scored 565 points, coming behind Indonesia and Vietnam.

Jeong had been the reigning champion in the category, finishing first at the 2018 Games in Jakarta, Indonesia. He took bronze at the 2010 Games in Guangzhou, China. He also won a silver medal in the men’s team category at the 2006 games in Doha, Qatar and took two bronze medals for Korea in the mixed individual and team categories in 2010 and 2014, respectively.

There was no 10 meter running target team event during the last Games in 2018.

South 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, and the men’s 25 meter rapid fire pistol team contest, also taking silver.

In the 25 meter rapid fire pistol event, the 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.

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.

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