Paris Olympic shooting women's 10m air rifle gold medalist Ban Hyo-jin (17, Daegu Sports High School, pictured) took third place in her first domestic competition since the Olympics. On the
16th, Ban Hyo-jin shot 228.2 points in the women's high school air rifle 10m final at the 2024 Chuncheon Mayor's Cup National Shooting Competition held at the Chuncheon Public Shooting Range in Chuncheon, Gangwon Province, and took third place. In this event, Gu Ye-dam (Seoul Sports High School) took first place with 249.6 points, and Jo Ye-eun (Gyeongbuk Sports High School) took second place with 249.2 points.
Ban Hyo-jin set a new competition record (629.6 points) in the main event that day, but lost in the finals after being pushed back in the finals. Instead, Ban Hyo-jin won the team event with her Daegu Sports High School teammates Kwak Da-hye, Noh Ki-ryeong, and Park Gye-eun, with a combined score of 1875.8 points.
Ban Hyo-jin, the youngest Korean athlete to participate in the Paris Olympics, won the gold medal after a one-shot shoot-off with Huang Yu-ting (China) in the women's 10m air rifle final (individual event) held on the 29th of last month
. Ban Hyo-jin, who shot 10.4 points in the shoot-off, beat Huang Yu-ting (10.3 points) by 0.1 point, becoming Korea's youngest gold medalist in the Summer Olympics (at the time, 16 years, 10 months, and 18 days). Ban Hyo-jin also became Korea's 100th gold medalist in the Summer Olympics. 토토사이트