New partner Park Ha-joon to secure 10-meter mixed air rifle silver

The first medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics came in shooting, as expected.

Park Ha-joon (KT) and Ban Ki-hyun (Gyeonggi Provincial Office), who were born in 2000, secured a silver medal in the 10-meter mixed air rifle event.

Park Ha-joon and Ban Ki-hyun scored 631.4 points in the 10-meter mixed shooting air rifle competition at the Sator Shooting Center in France on the 27th, advancing to the gold medal match in second place after China’s Huang Yutting and Sung Lihao (632.2 points).

Given that it will be held until the gold medal match, it is expected to be recorded as the main character of the first medal in this competition.

The shooting team originally considered the combination of Park Ha-joon and the youngest member of the national team, Ban Hyo-jin (Daegu Sports High School), and Ban Ki-hyun was working with Kyungnam University as much as possible.

However, after arriving in France, he changed partners to Park Ha-joon and Ban Ki-hyun, and the results came out immediately.

Park Ha-joon and Ban Ki-hyun also had a joint gold medal in the 2022 Shooting World Cup mixed event in Baku, Azerbaijan.

Park Ha-joon is a leading male air rifle player who won a silver medal in the men’s 10m individual and team events at the Hangzhou Asian Games last year. Jo is better known as the “Mother Gunner.” He got his ticket to the Paris Olympics in October 2022 with a pregnant body, and from the first day of the competition, he achieved the miracle of securing a silver medal.

It is also welcome news that the two athletes’ advance to the gold medal match led to a rebound in Korean shooting, which had been on a downward spiral. Korean shooting had the best record with three gold medals and two silver medals at the 2012 London Olympics, but was on a downward spiral until the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics (one gold and one silver) and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics (one silver).

Fortunately, as the two players performed well from the first day of the competition, Korean shooting once again dreamed of a renaissance.

Meanwhile, Choi Dae and Ban Hyo-jin, who competed in the 10-meter air rifle mixed race, finished 22nd with 623.7 points.

BY: 안전놀이터

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