‘High school girl shooter’ Ban Hyo-jin (Daegu Chego) has set an Olympic record. After a perfect qualification, she now has her sights set on gold.

Ban Hyo-jin topped the women’s 10-meter individual air rifle event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games with a score of 634.5 points on Monday (Aug. 28) at the Chateauroux Shooting Center in France. Her score of 634.5 was recognized as a new Olympic record, beating the previous mark of 632.9 set by Janet Hegg Dustad (NOR) at the Tokyo Games three years ago by 1.6 points.

The first and youngest to do so, BAN Hyo-jin got it right. Born in 2007, this is the first Olympics for the South Korean shooter. It wasn”t that long ago that she first started shooting. She picked up a gun for the first time in July 2021, so it“s a genius that she”s competing for her country in just three years. She made waves when she won the Daegu regional competition just two months into her career.

Ban is ranked 57th in the world. With that ranking, it’s hard to expect a medal, but even before the Olympics, the Korean team said, “If there is a surprise medal, it will be Ban Hyo-jin.

His talent is evident, as evidenced by the fact that he earned his tae kwon do mark just three years after starting shooting. She finished first overall at the national trials in March. At the World Cup in Munich, Germany, in June, which was held in the lead-up to the Olympics, she won the silver medal with 632.5 points.

With a steep upward trajectory, she was expected to win her first medal for South Korea. Given Ban’s pace, the shooting team decided to field her alongside Park Ha-joon (KT) in the 10m air rifle mixed event on the opening day. Park, who teamed up with Lee Eun-seo to win bronze at last year’s Hangzhou Asian Games, was hoping to use his experience and the rapidly improving Ban to reach a medal.

However, with the change in the Olympic quota allocation to two groups based on the latest rankings released by the International Shooting Sport 카지노사이트 추천 Federation (ISSF) in the run-up to the Games, the team took a strategic approach. They decided that Ban was better than Hyo-jin Ban (Gyeonggi-do) based on his form in Paris, so they paired him with Park Ha-joon and Ban, and Choi Max (Kyungnam University) and Ban.

In the end, the team’s strategy paid off as Park and Ban took home a valuable silver medal. For Ban Hyo-jin, however, it was a reminder that she needs to improve her form. In the mixed event with different partners, she finished 22nd out of 28 teams.

She lived up to the hype in the individual competition. In the main event, which crowned the top eight out of 44 competitors on the day, Ban shot 106.2 points in the first series to move into second place. In series two and three, she continued her good pace, shooting 105.7 and 104.8, respectively, not much different from her first attempt.

Ban Hyo-jin came from behind. She took the lead in series 4 with a 106.6, and continued her strong performance in series 5 (105.9) and 6 (105.3). She finished first overall and qualified for the finals with a new Olympic record.

Ban Hyo-jin will look to continue South Korea’s shooting surge at the Paris Olympics. She won medals for the second straight day. After winning silver in the mixed air rifle event on the first day, Oh Ye-jin (IBK) and Kim Ye-ji (Imsil County Office) won gold and silver, respectively, in the women’s 10-meter air pistol final. It was the first such feat in Korean shooting history in 12 years.

Ban Hyo-jin’s final will be held at 4:30 p.m. on Sept. 29 to continue her relay medal run.