Yang Ji-in wins women's 25m pistol gold at Paris 2024 Olympics

On 3 August 2024, South Korean shooter Yang Ji-in won the women's 25m pistol event at the Paris Olympics. The competition took place at the Châteauroux Shooting Centre, south of Paris, where the sport's events were held.

Yang, then in her early twenties, was competing at her first Olympic Games. She came through the qualification rounds and then the final, in which shooters fire at fast-appearing targets in timed series. Her result in the final was an Olympic record, and it earned her the gold medal.

The victory mattered because it added to South Korea's strong shooting tradition at the Games, which had already produced medals in the pistol events in Paris. It also marked Yang as a rising name in international pistol shooting. Her Olympic title became the starting point for her later success on the world stage, including the world titles that her recent results have built upon.