Shooting Air Pistol Oh Ye-jin Surprise Win
[Olympics] Shooting Air Pistol Oh Ye-jin 'Surprise Win'... Women's Archery Team Wins 10th Consecutive Win
Korea, once ranked first in medal standings, 'one gold medal left'
Swimmer Hwang Seon-woo eliminated in men's 200m freestyle semifinals.
Korea continued its early success at the 2024 Paris Olympics by winning one gold medal each in shooting and archery.
Oh Ye-jin (IBK Industrial Bank of Korea) won the gold medal in the women's 10m air pistol final held at the Chateauroux Shooting Center in France on the 28th (local time), shooting 243.2 points and setting a new Olympic finals record. 안전놀이터
Also, the women's archery team, consisting of Lim Si-hyeon (Korea National Sport University), Nam Su-hyeon (Suncheon City Hall), and Jeon Hun-yeong (Incheon City Hall), defeated China 5-4 in a close shoot-off in the team event final held in Les Invalides, Paris, France, and achieved the feat of winning their 10th consecutive Olympic gold medal.
On this day, Korea won two gold medals and one silver medal, including a silver medal in the women's 10m air pistol event by Kim Ye-ji (Imsil County Office), and came in 5th in the medal rankings with three golds, two silvers, and one bronze
When the women's archery gold medal was confirmed on this day, Korea, which briefly led the medal rankings, has won a total of 99 gold medals in the Summer Olympics, leaving just one gold medal away from its 100th overall in the Summer Olympics.
Korean shooting is doing well with one gold medal and two silver medals in this competition, including the silver medals in the 10m air rifle mixed by Park Ha-jun (KT) and Geum Ji-hyeon (Gyeonggi Provincial Office) the day before.
This is the first time in eight years that a Korean shooting team has won an Olympic title since Jin Jong-oh in the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games.
The 10m air pistol finals are conducted in a format where eight athletes shoot 10 shots first, then shoot two shots each, and the athlete with the lowest score is eliminated one by one.
In the match that day, Oh Ye-jin and Kim Ye-ji survived until the end, with Oh Ye-jin winning the gold medal and Kim Ye-ji winning the silver medal.
It has been 12 years since Korean shooters stood on the Olympic podium together, since Jin Jong-oh won the gold medal and Choi Young-rae won the silver medal in the 50m pistol event at the 2012 London Games.
Many said that Oh Ye-jin, who is ranked 35th in the world by the International Shooting Federation (ISSF) and is a rookie born in 2005 who is competing in the Olympics for the first time, would not be able to win the gold medal, but she literally caused a 'big accident'.
The women's archery team achieved the feat of winning the Olympics 10 times in a row after a close match with the Netherlands in the semifinals and China in the finals, including a shoot-off.
The Korean women's archery team has never missed a team event win since the 1988 Seoul Games.
Korea overcame a crisis of being down 2-4 in the third set against the Netherlands in the semifinals, but allowed China to tie the score at 4-4 in the finals.
However, Jeon Hoon-young and Lim Si-hyeon's arrows both hit 10 points in the shoot-off, making the moment of winning the gold medal even more thrilling.
In the men's 200m freestyle semifinals, Hwang Sun-woo and Kim Woo-min (both Gangwon-do Office) both failed to advance to the finals.
Hwang Sun-woo and Kim Woo-min, who split the water side by side in the first semifinal group, recorded times of 1 minute 45.92 seconds and 1 minute 46.58 seconds, respectively, finishing in 9th and 12th place, failing to advance to the finals, where the top eight swimmers advance.
The two passed the preliminary round held that morning together, making it the first time in Korean swimming history that two swimmers have advanced to the semifinals in a single Olympic event.
Judo men's 66kg class An Ba-ul (Namyangju City Hall), who was expected to be a medal candidate, lost to Guzman Kyrgyzbayev (Kazakhstan) in the round of 16 with a half-sleeve grab.
An Baul, who won a silver medal in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 and a bronze medal in Tokyo in 2021 and was in the hunt for a gold medal this time, was defeated by Kyrgyzbayev, who had a record of 2 wins and 0 losses against him, and failed to realize his dream of an Olympic gold medal.
The only team event for the Korean team, women's handball, lost to Slovenia 23-30, making their chances of advancing to the quarterfinals uncertain.
Korea fought hard with seven goals from Woo Bit-na (Seoul City Hall) and five from Kang Kyung-min (SK), but failed to overcome the wall of European powerhouse Slovenia and failed to continue their momentum of a 23-22 victory over Germany on the 25th.
The mixed doubles table tennis pair of Lim Jong-hoon (Korea Exchange) and Shin Yu-bin (Korean Air) defeated Ovidio Ionescu and Bernadette Soetz (Romania) 4-0 (13-11 11-8 11-8 11-8) in the quarterfinals to advance to the semifinals.
The pair of Lim Jong-hoon and Shin Yu-bin will compete against the world's strongest pair of Wang Chu-qin and Sun Yingsha (China) for a spot in the finals at midnight on the 30th, Korean time.