Shooting Park Ha-joon and Geum Ji-hyun advance to the 1st and 2nd place match

The Korean team's first medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics has been confirmed. The gunfire of hope rang out in Chatoru, a small central city 350km away from Paris.

In the 10-meter air rifle mixed preliminary round held at Chatoru Shooting Center in the French state of Indro, Park Ha-joon (24) and Jo Geum-hyun (24) shot 631.4 points to rank second only to China, which tied 632.2 points. Park won the first and second place finisher at 10:30 a.m. local time (5:30 p.m. Korean time). Park won the silver medal at the minimum.

It is the first medal for the Korean team at the Paris Olympics. She secured medals starting the day after the opening ceremony, expressing her prospects for the upcoming games.

In the 10-meter air rifle mixed race, the male and female players will shoot 30 shots each for 30 minutes in the first round of the finals, and the No. 1 and No. 2 teams with high combined scores will then head to the gold medal match. The third and fourth teams will then play the bronze medal match.

Korea had a neck-and-neck battle with China for the No. 1 spot in the preliminary round. In the beginning of the game, Korea was leading, but failed to advance to the 1st place after conceding the lead after the middle. However, Kazakhstan has secured its place in the 1st and 2nd place by strictly maintaining its second place position.

In the beginning, Korea considered Park Ha-joon and Ban Hyo-jin (17) as mixed partners. However, as Joo displayed her best condition in Chatoru, she chose Park Ha-joon, who was born in 2000, as her partner, and this strategy was effective. Park Ha-joon shot 315.2 points on the day, and Park scored 316.2 points.

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