Ban Hyo-jin won the gold medal in the women’s 10-meter shooting air rifle final at the 2024 Paris Olympics at the Chatoru Shooting Center in France on the 29th (local time).
South Korea, which had won 99 gold medals in the women’s archery team the previous day, built its 100th gold medal with the trigger of Ban Hyo-jin.
Ban Hyo-jin’s gold medal is also the fourth medal of our shooting team in this competition.
In Korean shooting, Park Ha-joon (KT) and Geum Ji-hyun (Gyeonggi Provincial Office) won silver medals in the 10-meter air rifle mix on the 27th, the first day of the competition, and Oh Ye-jin (IBK Industrial Bank) and Kim Ye-ji (Imsil County Office) swept gold and silver medals in the women’s 10-meter air pistol final on the 28th.
Ban also achieved the record of being the youngest Olympic medalist in Korean shooting history.
Ban Hyo-jin, who won a medal at the age of 16 years, 10 months, and 18 days, broke the record held by silver medalist Kang Cho-hyun (17 years, 11 months and 4 days at the time).
BY: 홀짝게임