Yang Ji-in Leads First Day of Asian Games Women's 25m Pistol Preliminaries... South Korea Tops Team Event

Yang Ji-in (South Korea), who is aiming for her second consecutive Asian Games podium finish, took the lead on the first day of the women's 25m pistol event at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games.

Yang finished first in the precision round of the women's 25m pistol preliminaries held at the Aichi Prefectural Shooting Range in Japan on the 27th, scoring 292 points with 11 inner tens.

Hanieh Rostamiyan (Iran) and Trinh Thu Vinh (Vietnam) both scored 291 points with 13 inner tens, but based on their scores in the final series, Rostamiyan took second place with 98 points and Trinh Thu Vinh finished third with 97 points.

Kim Hyun-suk of North Korea placed fourth with 291 points and 8 inner tens.

Oh Ye-jin, competing alongside Yang, finished eighth with 289 points and 15 inner tens, while Bong Seo-lin placed 12th with 289 points and 8 inner tens.

Combining the scores of Yang Ji-in, Oh Ye-jin, and Bong Seo-lin, South Korea took the lead in the team event with a preliminary interim total of 870 points and 34 inner tens, edging out China (868 points) by 2 points.

India ranked third with 864 points.

The women's 25m pistol preliminaries consist of a total of 60 shots, divided into 30 precision shots and 30 rapid-fire shots.

The athletes will compete in the rapid-fire round starting at 9:40 a.m. on the 28th, and the preliminary rankings will be determined by combining the precision and rapid-fire scores.

The top eight athletes in the preliminaries will advance to the individual final, with a maximum of two athletes allowed per country.

Team event medals are decided by the combined 60-shot preliminary totals of three athletes from each country, without a separate final.

Yang Ji-in, Oh Ye-jin, and Bong Seo-lin will hunt for medals in both the individual and team events at the same venue on the 28th.

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