Trio secures second shooting gold in running target
![Jeong You-jin took bronze in the men's individual 10 meter running target mixed contest after winning a team gold alongside Ha Kwang-chul and Kwak Yong-bin at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China on Tuesday. [YONHAP]](https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/data/photo/2023/09/26/3a7761e3-81e8-4b62-a10f-845eaf058c22.jpg)
Jeong You-jin took bronze in the men's individual 10 meter running target mixed contest after winning a team gold alongside Ha Kwang-chul and Kwak Yong-bin at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China on Tuesday. [YONHAP]
South Korea took another shooting gold with a team win in the men’s 10 meter running target mixed contest at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, China on Tuesday.
The three-person team of Kwak Yong-bin, Ha Kwang-chul and Jeong You-jin together scored 1,116 points, comfortably besting Kazakhstan, with 1,111, and Indonesia, with 1,098, who took silver and bronze, respectively.
Jeong also took bronze in the individual contest, scoring 377 points. He tied North Korea’s Kwon Kwan-gil but lost on 10s, 9 to 6.
The trio was responsible for South Korea’s first shooting gold in the men’s 10 meter running target contest on Monday, with Jeong taking bronze individually.
Both of the Monday and Tuesday running target events involved aiming at a slow- or fast-moving target with the key difference being that during Tuesday’s mixed event, the speed of each run was not known beforehand to the shooter.
South Korea’s medals in the men’s 10 meter running target followed its podium finish in the 10 meter air rifle mixed team event earlier on Tuesday.
South Korean shooters Park Ha-jun and Lee Eun-seo took bronze in the 10 meter air rifle mixed team event, defeating India in the bronze medal match at the 19th Asian Games.
The South Korean duo together scored 20 points, coming from behind to outshoot India’s Divyansh Singh Panwar and Ramita, who scored 18 points across the 16 rounds after giving up an eight-point lead.
Tuesday’s podium finishes pushed South Korea’s total shooting medal count to eight — two gold, three silver and three bronze — by the end of the day’s competitions.
BY MARY YANG [mary.yang@joongang.co.kr]
with the Korea JoongAng Daily
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