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Yang Ji-in breaks the 25m pistol world record and wins a second world title

South Korea's Yang Ji-in shot 44 in the Doha final, a new world record, and defended her world title while also securing a 2028 Olympic quota.

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South Korean sport shooter Yang Ji-in aims a pistol during the women's 25m pistol final at the World Championships in Doha.
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Yang Ji-in has rewritten the record books again. The Paris 2024 Olympic champion, 23, won the women's 25m pistol title at the ISSF World Championships (the sport's global championships) in Doha, Qatar, on 10 November, and she did it with a world record.

Her final score of 44 beat the previous mark of 43, set by India's Esha Singh at the Munich World Cup in May. It is Yang's first world record in about two years and ten months. She first set one in January 2024, with 41 at the Asian Championships in Jakarta. Kim Ye-ji (42) and Singh (43) then raised it in turn. Now it is back with Yang.

The win makes her a back-to-back world champion in the individual event, after taking both the individual and team golds in Cairo last year. She came from behind in the final to do it.

There is one more bonus: the victory also secured South Korea a quota place for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.

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