Choo Ga-eun and Hong Soo-hyun Win Silver in Air Pistol Mixed Team [AG Video]

The duo of Choo Ga-eun (Imsil County Office) and Hong Soo-hyun (Gangwon State Office) combined to win the silver medal in the 10m air pistol mixed team shooting event at the Aichi-Nagoya 2026 Asian Games.

The Choo-Hong pair posted a total of 478.0 points out of 48 shots in the final held at the Aichi Prefectural Shooting Range in Japan on the 25th, finishing second behind India.

India claimed the gold medal with 484.6 points, breaking the previous Asian record of 481.3 points by 3.3 points.

Iran took the bronze medal with 415.8 points, while Indonesia placed fourth with 349.4 points.

South Korea started in second place, 4.9 points behind India (103.0 points), after scoring 98.1 points in the first 10 shots of the final.

India maintained the lead with 303.5 points through the third series, followed by South Korea with 300.2 points.

In the first six shots of the second stage, which proceeded as single-shot rounds, Indonesia was the first to be eliminated with 349.4 points.

South Korea faced a crisis thereafter during the bronze medal-deciding phase.

After Choo Ga-eun shot 10.3 points and Hong Soo-hyun managed only 8.4 points on the 19th shot, South Korea requested a timeout.

The gap narrowed to 1.3 points after completing the 20th shot.

However, after Choo scored 10.4 points and Hong scored 9.4 points on the 21st shot, South Korea recorded a total of 416.5 points over 42 shots, edging out Iran (415.8 points) by 0.7 points to secure the silver medal.

In the final six shots for the gold medal, South Korea mounted a chase as Choo and Hong both fired 10.5 points to force a timeout from India, but had to settle for narrowing the gap from 8.4 points to 6.6 points.

Following the silver medal by Lee Dae-myung and Kim Min-jung at the 2018 Jakarta-Palembang Games and the bronze medal by Lee Won-ho and Kim Bo-mi at the 2022 Hangzhou Games, South Korea has now won a medal in this event for three consecutive editions.

This marks the first silver medal in the event in eight years since 2018.

Choo Ga-eun, who drew attention as a promising talent early on, competed at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics but failed to make the national team for the Hangzhou Asian Games, missing out on her first Asian Games appearance.

After a period of rigorous determination, she secured her ticket to the current tournament and claimed a gold medal in the women's 10m air pistol individual event, a silver medal in the team event, and another silver medal in the mixed team event at her debut Asian Games.

Hong Soo-hyun, who narrowly missed the podium by finishing fourth in the men's 10m air pistol individual event the previous day, captured his first-ever Asian Games medal in the mixed team event.

(Photo: Yonhap News)
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