Ban Hyo-jin and Park Ha-jun Win Silver in Air Rifle Mixed Team

South Korean shooters Ban Hyo-jin and Park Ha-jun teamed up to win the silver medal in the 10m air rifle mixed team event at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games.

Ban and Park scored 252.6 and 250.3 points, respectively, in the final held today (the 22nd) at the Aichi Prefectural General Shooting Range in Japan, combining for a total of 502.9 points to finish in second place.

China took first place with 507.1 points, while Japan placed third with 439.7 points.

India finished fourth with 376.3 points.

Advancing to the final in third place from the preliminaries, South Korea combined for 104.9 points in the first series, starting in second place behind China.

After scoring 209.2 points through the second series, they dropped to third place, trailing Japan (209.4 points) by 0.2 points. Even after completing 15 shots per athlete, they maintained third place with 314.3 points, behind China (315.7 points) and Japan (314.9 points).

South Korea finished the first single-shot section with 378.1 points, remaining in third place behind Japan (378.2 points) by 0.1 points.

After India was eliminated first with 376.3 points, South Korea engaged in a fierce battle with Japan for second place.

South Korea briefly edged ahead of Japan by 0.2 points with 399.0 points after the first shot, but fell behind Japan by 0.8 points with 418.9 points after the second shot.

The rankings shifted as Ban and Park scored 10.0 and 9.9 points, respectively.


Having caught their breath through a timeout while facing elimination, South Korea turned the tables with their final shots.

Ban hit 10.3 points and Park hit 10.9 points. Meanwhile, for Japan, Misaki Nobata scored 10.5 points, but Naoki Hanakawa managed only 9.5 points.

South Korea overturned the deficit to edge Japan by 0.4 points with a total of 440.1 points, and upon confirming the final shot, Park finally broke into a bright smile.

Subsequently, South Korea entered the gold medal match trailing China by 3.5 points, but they were unable to narrow the gap and settled for the silver medal.

China's Wang Zifei and Sheng Lihao combined for a final score of 507.1 points to win the championship, breaking the previous world record of 506.7 points set by Norway in Yerevan, Armenia last March by 0.4 points.

Ban, who won the bronze medal in the women's individual event earlier in this tournament, collected her second medal at her maiden Asian Games.

Park, who won a bronze medal in the men's team event the previous day, claimed his second medal of this tournament and the fifth Asian Games medal of his career.

In particular, Park continued his strong performance on major stages by medaling in a mixed event once again, following his mixed team bronze medal at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games and mixed team silver medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

(Photo: Yonhap News)
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