Yang Ji-in wins women's 25m pistol world title in Cairo

Yang Ji-in of South Korea won the women's 25m pistol title at the 2025 ISSF World Championships in Cairo, Egypt. The ISSF is the International Shooting Sport Federation, the sport's global governing body.

She finished the final with 40 points, ahead of China's Yao Qianxun, who took silver with 38. India's Esha Singh won bronze, her first individual world medal. Yang also helped South Korea to a team medal in the event alongside teammates including Oh Ye-jin and Nam Da-jung.

The victory mattered because Yang had arrived in Egypt as the reigning Olympic champion. She won the 25m pistol gold at the Paris 2024 Games, and the Cairo result made her the first South Korean woman to hold both titles at once, according to the framing of coverage at the time. It added a world title to her Olympic one and confirmed her place among the leading rapid-fire pistol shooters of her generation.