"You broke the record, but you're second?" Lee Jong-jun and Jang Guk-hei lose to China by one point... Still a great 'silver medal' [Aichi Nagoya AG]

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South Korea's national shooting team members Lee Jong-jun (Chungnam Sports Council) and Jang Guk-hei (KT) won the silver medal in the skeet mixed team event at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games. This marks the first time a Korean shooting team has medaled in the skeet mixed team event at the Asian Games.

The Lee Jong-jun and Jang Guk-hei pair scored 51 points in the final held on the 24th at the Aichi Prefecture General Shooting Range, finishing second after trailing China (Lü Junlin-Yang Ziting), which shot 52 points, by one point. The bronze medal went to India (44 points).

In the preliminary round earlier, South Korea scored 143 points and advanced to the final, where four teams competed, finishing second overall. After Qatar was eliminated first, South Korea continued competing against China and India. Having shot 44 points through the first six series of the final, South Korea tied with India but advanced to the final round under the rule that the team with the higher preliminary ranking wins in case of a tie, edging out third-place India.

In the final seventh series, which decided the gold medal, Lee Jong-jun hit all four shots and Jang Guk-hei hit three, putting up a strong performance. However, China also successfully hit seven shots, maintaining the one-point gap from before. South Korea's 51 points in the final were an outstanding result, surpassing the previous world record of 47 points (set by Qatar) by four points, but China claimed the gold medal along with a new world record after shooting 52 points.

With this silver medal, Lee Jong-jun, a 20-year veteran, added an Asian Games medal for the first time since winning bronze in the team event at the 2014 Incheon Games, 12 years later. Jang Guk-hei, who began shooting with trap in 2016 and switched to skeet in 2021, earned her first-ever Asian Games medal after honing her skills through self-funded training at an academy run by shooting legend Vincent Hancock of the United States.

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