Sep 28, 2026
South Korea settled for silver in a pistol shooting team event at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Monday following its star athlete's costly miscue. The trio of Yang Ji-in, Oh Ye-jin and Bong Seo-rin was in contention for the team title at the start of the day at Aichi Prefectural General Shooting Gallery in Toyota, about 60 kilometers east of the main host city of Nagoya. Yang, the 2024 Olympic individual champion in this distance, was going for an individual medal here, too. Scores for three shooters on each team in the individual qualification round were added to determine the team standings. The individual qualification round consisted of two stages — precision and rapid fire, with 30 shots divided into six five-shot series for each section. In the precision stage, there was a time limit of five minutes per series. For the rapid fire stage, a three-second limit applied to each shot. During her rapid fire stage, Yang failed to pull the trigger on her 21st shot within that three-second window, and the unfired shot was recorded as a miss for zero point. With one more group of 12 shooter