S. Korea Settles for Pistol Team Silver Following Shooter's Miscue
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Although Yang Ji-in (Woori Bank) received a score of 0 due to a firing error, the team joined forces to win a dramatic silver medal. Bong Seo-rin (Gwangju Sports Council), Yang Ji-in, and Oh Ye-jin (IBK Industrial Bank) won a total of 1,077 in the women's 25m pistol team event at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games shooting competition held at the Aichi Prefectural Shooting Range in Japan on the 28th.
Yang Ji-in and Oh Ye-jin failed to advance to the finals in the women's 25m pistol event at the 2026 Asian Games. Yang Ji-in made a mistake during the rapid-fire round where she was scored zero points due to exceeding the time limit, while Bong Seo-rin was the only one to advance to the finals and compete for a medal, finishing 7th in the preliminary round with a total of 581 points.
S. Korea settles for pistol team silver following shooter's miscue
South Korea settled for silver in a pistol shooting team event at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Monday following its star athlete's costly miscue. The trio of Yang Ji-in, Oh Ye-jin and Bong Seo-rin was in contention for the team title at the start of the day at Aichi Prefectural General Shooting Gallery in Toyota, about 60 kilometers east of the main host city of Nagoya. Yang, the 2024 Olympic individual champion in this distance, was going fo…
(Toyota, Japan = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Dong-han = Despite a firing delay error by younger sister Yang Ji-in (Woori Bank), eldest sister Bong Seo-rin (Gwangju City Sports Association) scored 292 points in rapid fire...
An unexpected event occurred in shooting, a sport in which South Korea excels.
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