China’s Huang Yuting and Sheng Lihao defeated South Korea’s Keum Ji-hyun and Park Ha-jun 16-12 in the 10-meter air rifle mixed team event on Saturday to win the first gold medal of the Paris 2024 Olympics.
This is China’s 68th medal and 27th gold in shooting, Huang’s first in the sport and Sheng’s second, who won a silver medal in the 10-meter air rifle at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics.
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China’s Sheng Lihao and Huang Yuting pose for a photograph after the 10m air rifle mixed team shooting gold medal match during the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, east China’s Zhejiang province, on September 26, 2023. (Xiang Yuqi/Xinhua via Getty Images)
The Chinese pair’s victory in Paris follows their gold medal win at last year’s World Championships in Baku, Azerbaijan.
It is the first Olympic medal for the South Korean pair, with Keum winning gold in the women’s 10-meter air rifle at the World Cup earlier this year.
Kazakhstan’s Alexandra Le and Islam Satpayev beat Germany’s Anna Jansen and Maximilian Ulbrich to win the bronze medal on Saturday, marking their first medal of the Paris Olympics.
The Kazakhstan team won the match 17-5. Le and Satpayei defeated Great Britain’s Seonaidh McIntosh and Michael Bargeron on Thursday.
Alexandra Le of Kazakhstan and Islam Satpayev of Kazakhstan compete for the bronze medal in the 10m air rifle mixed team shooting at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games at the Chateauroux Shooting Centre on July 29, 2024. (Alain Jocard/AFP via Getty Images)
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Kazakhstan brought home eight bronze medals at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. The team won a total of 17 medals at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, including 10 bronze, five silver and two gold.
Coming into the bronze medal match, the Kazakhstan team had only won three medals in the competition: two silver medals and one bronze medal, adding another bronze medal to their total.
Sergey Belyaev won two silver medals in the 50-meter rifle prone event and two silver medals in the 50-meter prone three positions event at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics. Vladimir Vokhmyanin won the men’s 25-meter rapid-fire pistol event.
China’s Yang Qian and Yang Haoran won the gold medal, beating America’s Mary Tucker and Lukas Kozeniewski, while the Russian Olympic Committee’s Yulia Karimova and Sergei Kamensky won the bronze medal, beating South Korea’s Kwon Eun-ji and Nam Tae-yoon.
South Korean athlete Kum Ji-hyun competes in the 10m air rifle mixed team gold medal event at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games held at the Chateauroux Shooting Centre on July 29, 2024. (Alain Jocard/AFP via Getty Images)
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