North Korea's Long-Awaited First Gold in Women's Shooting

[Asian Games] North Korea's Long-Awaited First Gold in Women's Shooting... Continuing the Legacy of ‘Good Son Stock’

Won the women's 10m running target team event... Men's shooting 'no gold' wipes away tears

The sport in which North Korea won its first gold medal at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games, the first comprehensive international competition in five years, was shooting.

North Korea, which suffered from a drought of gold medals in this competition, continued its reputation as an Asian shooting powerhouse by winning a medal in the shooting event. 온라인카지노사이트

In the '10m Running Target Women's Shooting Event' held at the Fuyang Inhu Sports Center in Hangzhou on the 28th, the North Korean team won a gold medal in the team event and silver and bronze medals in the individual event.

It was North Korea's first gold medal at the Asian Games.

North Korea formed a team in this event with Li Ji-ye (25) and Baek Ok-sim (25), who have extensive experience in international competitions, and Bang Myeong-hyang (22), who is relatively young.

Li Jiye and Baek Okshen won silver medals in the same event at the 2018 Changwon World Shooting Championships.

In the individual competition, the athlete from Kazakhstan took first place, followed by Li Jiye and Baek Ok-sim.

In the team event, where the scores of the three players are added together to determine the color of the medal, Li Ji-ye, Baek Ok-sim, and Bang Myeong-hyang took second to fourth place, beating second-place Kazakhstan by a considerable margin.

This gold medal appears to be an achievement that can alleviate some of the shock of North Korea's shooting, especially in the '10m Running Target Men' event, where four gold medals were won on the 25th and 26th, and only two silver medals were received.

Perhaps due to the shock of defeat at the time, Park Myung-won, who was also North Korea's flag bearer at the opening ceremony, had tears in his eyes at the award ceremony, and the North Korean team rejected repeated offers from South Korean players to take a commemorative photo together on the first place podium.

As if they were happy about finally winning the gold medal, all male shooting athletes were present at the award ceremony and congratulated the athletes with bright expressions.

However, despite winning the gold medal, the North Korean athletes passed through the mixed zone (joint reporting area) without any response to the reporters' questions that day.

Perhaps due to the deteriorating inter-Korean relations, North Korean athletes and officials are intentionally avoiding questions from South Korean reporters during this tournament.

In North Korea, shooting is a strategic sport that has been promoted through policy in the past, and the country was once evaluated as a 'powerhouse'.

At the 1972 Munich Olympics, Lee Ho-jun set a new Olympic and world record by scoring 599 points (out of 600) in the small-bore rifle rifle shooting, and three years later, at the 1975 Malaysian Asian Championships, he won six gold medals, including the air rifle gold medal.

Afterwards, Seo Gil-san set a record by winning a whopping 7 gold medals, including sweeping individual and team gold medals in free pistol and air pistol at the 1982 Asian Games in New Delhi.

However, after performing poorly at the Asian Championships in Indonesia the following year and starting to go downhill, he failed to perform prominently on the international stage, but shocked the world by winning gold medals in a whopping 3 team events at the 1998 Bangkok Asian Games.

Since then, Park Myung-won has played a role as a 'good sport' at least in these competitions, winning two and one gold medal at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China and the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang, Indonesia.