The goal of the Korea Sports Association, which wanted to secure the 15th place overall by winning about five gold medals before the competition was held, was put to death. With the much-anticipated gold medal contenders at the top of the podium one after another, two teenage female gunmen made gold medals in succession in shooting.
Ban Hyo-jin, a second-year high school student, tied for first place with China’s Huang Yu-ting in the women’s 10m air rifle final at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics at the National Shooting Range in Paris, France, on the 29th (Korea time), and shot 10.4 to beat Huang Yu-ting, who finished 10.3 to win the gold medal.
Ban was a junior high school student who had just started shooting and started training at the Tokyo Olympics, but combined her natural talent and amazing development to make it to the Olympics for the first time in her life and achieved the great feat of winning the gold medal in no time. It was an announcement that a Korean female rifle genius girl appeared.
Ban Hyo-jin’s gold medal is South Korea’s 100th in the Summer Olympics.
Since Yang Jung-mo won wrestling at the 1976 Montreal Olympics and handed South Korea its first Olympic gold medal, South Korea had won 96 gold medals by the last Tokyo Olympics.
Expectations were high that the 100th gold medal of the Summer Olympics would appear at this competition, but 16-year-old high school girl Ban Hyo-jin became the main character.
Through Ban Hyo-jin’s gold medal, South Korea regained the top spot in the middle of the Paris Olympics.
Starting with Oh Sang-wook’s individual gold medal in fencing on the first day of the competition, South Korea added a surprise gold medal on the 28th, beating Kim Ye-ji, a 19-year-old Korean shooter in the women’s 10m air pistol.
And on the same day, Ban Hyo-jin set a huge record of 10 consecutive Olympics in the women’s archery team, and a day later, he laughed at the 10-meter air rifle.
In addition to four gold medals and Kim Ye-ji’s silver medal, Park Ha-joon and Geum Ji-hyun won silver medals in the 10-meter air rifle mixed team, and Kim Woo-min won bronze in the men’s 400-meter swimming final.
As a result, as of 5:15 p.m. on the 29th, he is recording four gold medals, two silver medals, and one bronze medal, but he will tie for first place in the overall ranking with Japan.
Japan added two gold medals in judo and one gold each in fencing and skateboarding. It is tied with Korea by winning a silver medal in skateboarding and swimming, and a bronze medal in judo.
Sports powers such as Australia (gold 4 silver 2), the United States (gold 3 silver 6 dong 3), France (gold 3 silver 3 dong 2), and China (gold 3 silver 2 dong 2) are ranked 3rd to 6th after Korea and Japan.
When Korea won the gold medal in the archery team event on the previous day, it was remarkable to rank No. 1 with three golds, two silver and one bronze. After that, it dropped to No. 5, but within a day, Ban Hyo-jin retook the top spot as he delivered good news in shooting.
The U.S., which is strong in basic sports such as swimming and track and field, and China, which is strong in gymnastics, table tennis, and badminton, are expected to fight for the top spot again, but it must be good news that Korea ranked first in the overall rankings at any moment.
BY: 토토사이트