“Following his wife’s Paris silver, husband wins Asian Games gold” — Kim Ye-ji’s husband Lee Gun-hyuk claimed two gold medals in a single day! Dominates 25m Rapid Fire Pistol individual and team events [Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games]

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At the 2024 Paris Olympics, his wife Kim Ye-ji (34) rang out a silver shot. Two years later at the Asian Games, her husband Lee Gun-hyuk (27, Daegu Public Facility Management Corporation) hit two gold medals in one day.

Lee Gun-hyuk took the top spot on the 1st at the Aichi Prefecture Comprehensive Shooting Range in Japan, defeating Su Lianbo Pan (China) in a close contest that went to two shoot-offs (overtime) after recording 32 points in the final of the men’s 25m Rapid Fire Pistol individual event at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games.

The first shoot-off also failed to decide the winner, with both athletes scoring 4 points. However, in the second decisive round, Lee Gun-hyuk hit all five shots, while Su Lianbo Pan managed only 2 points. After a long battle, Lee Gun-hyuk’s gold medal was confirmed.

Having recorded 588 points in the earlier qualification round, Lee Gun-hyuk combined his score with those of Yoon Seo-young (KB Kookmin Bank, 581 points) and Song Jong-ho (IBK Industrial Bank of Korea, 581 points) to reach a total of 1,749 points, securing the gold medal in the team event as well.

Thus, Lee Gun-hyuk hung two gold medals around his neck in just one day. It has been 12 years since the 2014 Incheon Games that South Korea simultaneously dominated both the men’s 25m Rapid Fire Pistol individual and team events at the Asian Games.

He also thoroughly washed away the regret from three years ago. Lee Gun-hyuk wore the Taegeuk mark at the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games held in 2023, but had to settle for a silver medal in the team event.

Expectations were high even before the tournament began. In April, Lee Gun-hyuk scored 596 points in the 25m Rapid Fire Pistol at the Asian Games national selection trials, taking first place with an unofficial world record that surpassed the then-world record. He carried this momentum straight into the Asian Games.

With this, a couple of medalists has been born. Lee Gun-hyuk’s wife is Kim Ye-ji, the silver medalist in the women’s 10m Air Pistol at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Kim Ye-ji attracted global attention in Paris with her sharp gaze and unique shooting stance, and rose to become a star representing Korean shooting by also winning a silver medal.

Kim Ye-ji did not participate in events during the 2025 season due to marriage and childbirth, nor did she compete as an athlete in this year’s Asian Games national selection trials. Instead, she continued her connection with shooting through broadcasting commentary and other activities. If his wife had first astonished the world from the Olympic podium, it was now her husband’s turn.

Lee Gun-hyuk is also a shooter already proven on the international stage. In addition to winning the individual gold medal at the 2022 Cairo World Championships, he has consistently harvested medals at Asian and World Championships. During his high school years, he broke his collarbone during physical training and even underwent surgery to insert a steel pin, but did not give up shooting.

And more than 10 years later, at his second Asian Games, he finally dominated both the individual and team events. Following Kim Ye-ji, who brought home a silver medal from the Paris Olympics, Lee Gun-hyuk is now set to return with two gold medals as well.

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