South Korean shooting won gold at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games.
The men's rapid-fire pistol team of Song Jong-ho (Industrial Bank of Korea), Lee Gun-hyuk (Daegu Public Facilities Management Corporation) and Yoon Seo-young (KB Kookmin Bank) combined for 1,749 points in the 25-meter rapid-fire pistol team event on the 1st at the Aichi Prefectural Shooting Range in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, finishing 9 points ahead of China's 1,740 for the title. Indonesia took bronze with 1,720 points.
It is the first time in 12 years that South Korea has topped the podium in the Asian Games rapid-fire pistol team event, following the 2014 Incheon Games, where the country swept both the individual event (Kim Jun-hong) and the team event (Kim Jun-hong, Jang Dae-gyu and Song Jong-ho). Song thus claimed another Asian Games gold medal 12 years on. The gold was South Korea's 25th of the Games for a national team that had gone without one the previous day.
Asian Games team shooting events determine final standings by adding the qualification scores of the three competing athletes. In rapid-fire pistol qualification, shooters fire five shots four times each (20 shots in total) within time limits of eight, six and four seconds, for 60 shots per athlete, with scores tallied over two days. Unlike standard rifle and pistol events, scores are counted only in whole numbers (10, 9 and so on) without decimals.
South Korea had taken the lead on the first day of qualification a day earlier with a combined 873 points, 3 ahead of China's 870, and widened the gap with steady shooting on the second day. In the day's competition, held in reverse order of the first-day standings, Song shot 292 out of a possible 300 in the fifth group, blunting China's push. Yoon, who had ranked second overall with 293 the previous day, slipped to 288, but Lee delivered a high score of 296 to bolster the gold-medal effort.
Based on their individual qualification scores, Lee (588 points, second place) and Yoon (581 points, third) advanced to the final later in the day among the top eight shooters, where they will seek a second title of the Games. Song also posted 580 points, good for fourth overall, but was blocked by a rule limiting each country to two finalists, ceding the spot to ninth-placed Anish of India. In the final, shooters fire five shots in four seconds, with each shot scoring 9.7 or higher counting as 1 point and anything below counting as 0.
