Shooter Yang Ji-in Aims for Two Gold Medals in 25m Pistol Today

2024 Paris Olympic gold medalist Yang Ji-in (Woori Bank) is gearing up for her second and third gold medals at the Asian Games.

Alongside Oh Ye-jin (IBK Corporate Bank) and Bong Seo-rin (Gwangju Sports Council), Yang will compete for medals in the women's 25m pistol individual and team events today (September 28) at the Aichi Prefectural General Shooting Range in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, for the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games.

Yang finished first in the precision stage of the 25m pistol preliminaries yesterday with a score of 292 (11 X-tens).

In addition, with the combined scores of Yang, Oh Ye-jin, and Bong Seo-rin, South Korea also claimed the top spot in the team standings.

Yang has secured a golden opportunity to upgrade the two bronze medals she won in this event at the 2022 Hangzhou Games into two gold medals three years later.

Shin Ji-in (25), who has emerged as one of the hottest stars on social media among the South Korean delegation, will team up with Kim Jung-ah (24) to play in the women's beach volleyball Round of 16.

However, facing Hangzhou Games champions Xia Xinyi and Yan Xu of China, their chances of advancing to the quarterfinals are not high.

Following the inspiration from the women's handball team, which secured its first gold medal in eight years, the men's handball team will face Qatar in the semifinals at 5:30 PM, challenging for a spot in the final.

The men's hockey team will wrap up its group stage with a crucial South Korea-Japan match that they must win to advance to the semifinals.

Veteran weightlifter Won Jong-beom (Gangwon State Government) will compete in the men's 95kg weightlifting event held at the Nagoya Congress Center, aiming for a gold medal.

Ranked second in the world, Won won gold medals in the clean and jerk and total at the 2023 World Championships, as well as a clean and jerk gold medal at the 2024 World Championships.

South Korean promising track and field sprinters Bewsa Daniel Casama, Namadi Joeljin, Lee Jae-sung, Seo Min-jun, and Kim Si-on will eye medals in the men's 400m relay.

Diving stars Kim Su-ji (Ulsan Metropolitan City Council) and Kim Young-nam (Jeju Special Self-Governing Province Council) will compete in the men's and women's 1m springboard events.

(Photo: Yonhap News)
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