South Korea extended its medal-winning streak to four days at the Paris Olympics on Tuesday, picking up a bronze medal each in table tennis and judo.
The first medal of the day was a drought buster, as Lim Jong-hoon and Shin Yu-bin captured the bronze medal in the mixed doubles table tennis event for South Korea’s first ping pong medal in 12 years.
They defeated Wong Chun Ting and Doo Hoi Kem of Hong Kong 4-0 (11-5, 11-7, 11-7, 14-12) in the third-place contest.
The South Koreans took the first three games with relative ease, but Chun and Doo pushed back and held a 10-8 lead in the fourth game, a point away from extending the match.
But South Korea won the next two points for the 커뮤니티 deuce, and closed out the Hong Kong team at 14-12 on a long return by Wong.
The North Korean team of Ri Jong-sik and Kim Kum-yong won silver in the mixed doubles for their country’s first medal in Paris.
South Korea also earned a bronze medal in judo, with Lee Joon-hwan defeated world No. 1 from Belgium, Matthias Casse, in one of two bronze medal contests.
Lee grabbed his decisive “waza-ari,” or a half point, 48 seconds into the sudden-death extra period to win bronze in his Olympic debut.