[Asian Games] North Korea Wins First Gold Medal in Shooting Women’s Running Target Team Event
Silver and bronze medals added for individual competition
North Korea won its first gold medal in shooting at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games,
the first international sports competition in five years.
Women’s 10m Running Target Team
In the women’s 10m running target team event held at the Puyang Inhu Sports Center in Hangzhou, China on the 28th,
North Korea’s Baek Ok-sim, Bang Myeong-hyang, and Li Ji-ye recorded a total score of 1,655 points,
beating Kazakhstan (1,642 points) to take first place. won the gold medal. 카지노사이트킹
This is the North Korean team’s first gold medal in an international all-around competition five years after the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang.
North Korea boycotted the 2020 Tokyo Olympics held in 2021,
saying it would prevent the introduction of the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19),
was then disciplined by the International Olympic Committee (IOC),
barring it from participating in international competitions until 2022.
In this competition, which was her comeback, she previously won three bronze medals,
including the shooting 10m running target individual event (Kwon Gwang-il) and team event,
a silver medal in the women’s 70 kg judo class (Moon Seong-hee),
a bronze medal in the judo men’s 60 kg class (Chae Gwang-jin),
but there was no gold medal, and it was the fifth day of the medal race.
North Korea
The first gold medal was won.
Previously, in the men’s 10m running target normal team event on the 25th,
North Korea had the same total score of 1,668 points as South Korea,
but there was a difference in the number of Inner Ten (10 points in the center),
North Korea, which took the silver medal, won the women’s event.
Running target shooting is a sport where you hit a target that moves sideways like a game.
In the individual competition on this day, Kazakhstan’s Zukra Irnazarova took the top spot with 560 points,
Li Jiye (554 points) took the silver medal, and Baek Ok-sim (441 points) won the bronze medal.
North Korea won a gold, a silver, and a bronze medal at the shooting range on this day. I took it.
Bang Myeong-hyang also ranked 4th individually (550 points), showing the skills of all three North Korean players.
This is the first time that North Korea has won the team event in this event.
Previously, there was a bronze medal at the 2010 Guangzhou Games.
Including today’s results, North Korea has recorded one gold medal, three silver medals,
one bronze medal in shooting alone in this competition so far.
No Korean athletes participated in the women’s running target event at this competition.