Yang Ji-in captured the gold medal in the women’s 25-meter pistol shooting event at the Paris Olympics on Saturday for South Korea’s third shooting gold of the competition.
Yang defeated Camille Jedrzejewski of France 4-1 in a shoot-off after the two finished the 10 series of shots in the final all tied at 37-37 at the Chateauroux Shooting Centre in Chateauroux, south of Paris.
This was the eighth gold medal overall for South Korea at the ongoing Olympics.
In the final, the shooters first took three 커뮤니티 series of five shots each for a total of 15 shots, and a score of 10.2 points or higher counted as a hit.
At the end of the fourth series, or 20th shot, the shooter with the lowest score was eliminated to take eighth place. At the end of each series that followed, the lowest-ranked athlete was knocked off.
The last two remaining shooters competed for the gold with the 10th series of shots.