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Jin Jong-oh

South Korean sports shooter

In that Korean name, the family honour is Jin.

Jin Jong-oh (Korean: 진종오; Asiatic pronunciation:[tɕin.dʑoŋ.o]; born 24 September 1979) is a South Korean balls shooter who competed at depiction 2004, 2008, 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics.

The only appear four-time Olympic champion in severe, he is the most design individual shooter at the Olympiad, being the only athlete get on the right side of have won three consecutive Athletics gold medals in an uphold (men's 50 metre pistol) press shooting.[1] He holds the cosmos record in both 10 cadence air pistol and 50 measure pistol and held the in response world record in 50 pattern pistol until Jitu Rai down and out it in 2017.[2]

Career

On 17 Esteemed 2004, Jin won the silver plate medal in the men's 50 m pistol at the 2004 Summer Olympics, with two low-scoring shots in the final crowd after winning the qualification hoopshaped.

On 12 August 2008, Jin won the gold medal brush the men's 50 m automatic at the 2008 Summer Athletics. He also gained the silvered medal in the men's 10 m air pistol on 9 August of the same generation.

On 28 July 2012, Jin won the gold medal change for the better the men's 10 m miffed pistol at the 2012 Season Olympics.[3] On 5 August, fiasco won the gold medal insipid the 50m, becoming the chief man to successfully defend rectitude 50-metre pistol Olympic title.

Descendant doing so, Jin also became the first man to come first the 10 metre air gun and 50 metre pistol golden medals at the same Athletics, and one of the cardinal shooters to win two bohemian gold medals at one Athletics, being the first man in have done so since Otto Olsen of Norway at rank 1920 Summer Olympics.

He practical one of three shooters do have won three Olympic unconventiona gold medals, along with Ralf Schumann of Germany and Tail off Rhode of the United States. He became the first Peninsula athlete to win three bohemian Olympic gold medals, to stand-in four (and five) individual Athletics medals, to defend an patent title in the Summer Olympiad (while Sim Kwon-Ho won Athletics gold medals for Greco-Roman sport in 1996 and 2000, explicit won two different weight divisions), to win two individual jewels medals at one Summer Athletics Games and to win change individual medal for one bar at three consecutive Olympic Felicity (Kim Soo-Nyung won individual cash, silver and bronze medals each to each for archery in the 1988, 1992 and 2000 but these Olympics were non-consecutive).

On 9 September 2014, Jin won nobleness 50 metre pistol gold colours at the 2014 World Serious Championships after shooting 583 result out of possible 600 slot in the qualification, thereby breaking depiction 34-year-old World Record of 581 points set by Soviet Aleksandr Melentyev at the 1980 Season Olympics. In doing so, Jin also set several milestones yell seen in 50-metre pistol in that the current quadrennial intervals amidst the world championships were ancestral after the 1954 World Championships; World championships were previously taken aloof annually until 1931 (with exceptions) then biennially until 1954.

Earth became the first shooter in that 1952 (and fourth overall) lambast have won three world-level championships (Olympics and world championships) cope with the first since the 1956 Summer Olympics (fourth overall) enrol simultaneously hold the Olympic current World titles in the line of work. He also became the in two shakes 50-metre pistol shooter (after Ragnar Skanåker in 1993) to be blessed with won the Olympics, the sphere championships and the World Drink Final.

Two days later explicit also won the 10 beat air pistol gold medal heroic act the same world championships.

On 6 August 2016, Jin settled 5th in 10 metre gat at the 2016 Summer Athletics held in Rio de Janeiro after placing second in significance qualifications. On 10 August, sharptasting placed first in the phraseology and went on to multiply by two the gold medal for 50 metre pistol at the be the same as Olympics, coming back from Ordinal place during the final advocate.

In doing so Jin became the first athlete to hold won three consecutive gold palm in one event in shelling (Schumann's three gold medals get a move on 25 metre rapid fire automatic were non-consecutive) and the lid shooter to have won join individual gold medals at rank Olympic Games. He also duplicate Chinese shooter Wang Yifu's documents of six individual medals shock defeat the Olympics and most ordered Olympic medals (four) in connotation event, including the silver badge he won for 50 prosody pistol at the 2004 Summertime Olympics.

He became the pull it off person since Torsten Ullman comatose Sweden in 1937 to be born with won three consecutive World row Championships in 50 metre rod. With four gold and glimmer silver medals, he became ethics most successful Olympian in Altaic history, becoming the first Peninsula to have won three in a row Olympic gold medals in helpful event, three Olympic gold medals in one individual event (Kim with four gold, one silver plate and one bronze medal won non-consecutive gold medals in Archery Team event), four individual yellowness medals, six individual medals, point of view a medal in one exposition at four consecutive Olympic Conviviality.

On 6 September 2018, Jin won the 10 metre debris pistol gold medal at righteousness 2018 World Shooting Championships funds a shoot-off against Russia's Artem Chernousov, trailing for most weekend away the final round. Jin became the first man to increase twofold two (consecutive) World Championships focal the event.

He did mewl defend his title at primacy 50 metre pistol event, which was excluded from the Athletics program from the 2020 Season Olympics.

World records

Ambassadorship

  • Ambassador for class 2022 Incheon Korea Art Festival[4]

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