Jin Jong-oh (진종오; ; born 24 September 1979) is a South Korean
sports shooter
Shooting sports is a group of competitive and recreational sporting activities involving proficiency tests of accuracy, precision and speed in shooting — the art of using ranged weapons, mainly small arms (firearms and airguns, in forms such as ...
who competed at the
2004,
2008
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,
2012
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and
2016 Summer Olympics. The only individual four-time Olympic champion in shooting, he is the most successful individual shooter at the Olympics, being the only athlete to have won three consecutive Olympic gold medals in an event (men's
50 metre pistol) in shooting. He holds the world record in both
10 metre air pistol
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and
50 metre pistol and held the final world record in
50 metre pistol until Jitu Rai broke it in 2017.
Career
On 17 August 2004, Jin won the silver medal in the
men's 50 m pistol at the
2004 Summer Olympics, with two low-scoring shots in the final round after winning the qualification round.
On 12 August 2008, Jin won the gold medal in the
men's 50 m pistol at the
2008 Summer Olympics. He also gained the silver medal in the
men's 10 m air pistol on 9 August of the same year.
On 28 July 2012, Jin won the gold medal in the
men's 10 m air pistol at the
2012 Summer Olympics. On 5 August, he won the gold medal in the
50m, becoming the first man to successfully defend the 50-metre pistol Olympic title. By doing so, Jin also became the first man to win the 10 metre air pistol and 50 metre pistol gold medals at the same Olympics, and one of the five shooters to win two individual gold medals at one Olympics, being the first man to have done so since
Otto Olsen of
Norway
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at the
1920 Summer Olympics. He is one of three shooters to have won three Olympic individual gold medals, along with
Ralf Schumann
Ralf Schumann (born 10 June 1962) is a former German 25 m rapid fire pistol shooter. He is a three-time Olympic Champion and twice the World Champion. One of the most decorated shooters of the modern era, he is the first of two sport shooters to ...
of
Germany
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and
Kim Rhode
Kimberly Susan Rhode (born July 16, 1979) is an American double trap and skeet shooter. A California native, she is a six-time Olympic medal winner, including three gold medals, and six-time national champion in double trap. She is the most succ ...
of the
United States
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. He became the first Korean athlete to win three individual Olympic gold medals, to win four (and five) individual Olympic medals, to defend an individual title in the Summer Olympics (while
Sim Kwon-Ho won Olympic gold medals for Greco-Roman wrestling in
1996 and
2000
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, he won two different weight divisions), to win two individual gold medals at one Summer Olympic Games and to win an individual medal for one event at three consecutive Olympic Games (
Kim Soo-Nyung
Kim Soo-nyung (born April 5, 1971 in Chungcheongbuk-do) is a former member of the South Korean Olympic archery team in 1988, 1992, and 2000.
She has earned a total of four gold medals at the Olympics, one for the individual ...
won individual gold, silver and bronze medals respectively for archery in the
1988
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,
1992 and
2000
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but these Olympics were non-consecutive).
On 9 September 2014, Jin won the 50 metre pistol gold medal at the
2014 World Shooting Championships after shooting 583 points out of possible 600 in the qualification, thereby breaking the 34-year-old World Record of 581 points set by Soviet
Aleksandr Melentyev at the
1980 Summer Olympics. In doing so, Jin also set several milestones not seen in 50-metre pistol since the current quadrennial intervals between the world championships were established after the
1954 World Championships; World championships were previously held annually until 1931 (with exceptions) then biennially until 1954. He became the first shooter since
1952
Events January–February
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* February 6
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(and fourth overall) to have won three world-level championships (Olympics and world championships) and the first since the
1956 Summer Olympics (fourth overall) to simultaneously hold the Olympic and World titles in the discipline. He also became the second 50-metre pistol shooter (after
Ragnar Skanåker
Ragnar Skanåker (born 8 June 1934) is a Swedish competitive pistol shooter who was a world-class shooter for an extremely long period. His international breakthrough came in the 1972 Olympics, where he won the 50 m Pistol event. He is mostly asso ...
in 1993) to have won the Olympics, the world championships and the World Cup Final. Two days later he also won the 10 metre air pistol gold medal at the same world championships.
On 6 August 2016, Jin placed 5th in 10 metre pistol at the
2016 Summer Olympics held in
Rio de Janeiro
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after placing second in the qualifications. On 10 August, he placed first in the qualifications and went on to win the gold medal for 50 metre pistol at the same Olympics, coming back from 7th place during the final round. In doing so Jin became the first athlete to have won three consecutive gold medal in one event in shooting (Schumann's three gold medals in
25 metre rapid fire pistol
25 meter rapid fire pistol is one of the ISSF shooting events and is shot with .22 LR pistols. The event has been a part of the Olympic program ever since the beginning in 1896, although its rules changed greatly before World War II, after whic ...
were non-consecutive) and the first shooter to have won four individual gold medals at the Olympic Games. He also matched Chinese shooter
Wang Yifu's records of six individual medals at the Olympics and most consecutive Olympic medals (four) in one event, including the silver medal he won for 50 metre pistol at the 2004 Summer Olympics. He became the first person since
Torsten Ullman
Torsten Ullman (27 July 1908 – 11 May 1993) was a Swedish pistol shooter and entrepreneur, most famous for his gold medal in the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where the Germans were favourites in the free pistol competition but Ullman won by a mar ...
of
Sweden in 1937 to have won three consecutive World level Championships in 50 metre pistol. With four gold and two silver medals, he became the most successful Olympian in Korean history, becoming the first Korean to have won three consecutive Olympic gold medals in one event, three Olympic gold medals in one individual event (Kim with four gold, one silver and one bronze medal won non-consecutive gold medals in Archery Team event), four individual gold medals, six individual medals, and a medal in one event at four consecutive Olympic Games.
On 6 September 2018, Jin won the 10 metre air pistol gold medal at the
2018 World Shooting Championships after a shoot-off against Russia's
Artem Chernousov
Artem Anatolyevich Chernousov ( rus, Артём Анатольевич Черноусов, , ɐrˈtʲɵm tɕɪrnɐˈusəf; born 10 January 1996) is a Russian sport shooter.
He participated at the 2018 ISSF World Shooting Championships
The 52nd ...
, trailing for most of the final round. Jin became the first man to win two (consecutive) World Championships in the event. He did not defend his title at the 50 metre pistol event, which was excluded from the Olympic program from the
2020 Summer Olympics
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Tokyo was selected as the host city during the 1 ...
.
World records
Ambassadorship
* Ambassador for the 2022 Incheon Korea Art Festival
References
External links
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1979 births
Living people
South Korean male sport shooters
ISSF pistol shooters
World record holders in shooting
Olympic shooters of South Korea
Shooters at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Shooters at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Shooters at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Shooters at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Shooters at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for South Korea
Olympic silver medalists for South Korea
People from Chuncheon
Asian Games medalists in shooting
Olympic medalists in shooting
Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Shooters at the 2002 Asian Games
Shooters at the 2006 Asian Games
Shooters at the 2010 Asian Games
Shooters at the 2014 Asian Games
Shooters at the 2018 Asian Games
Asian Games gold medalists for South Korea
Asian Games silver medalists for South Korea
Asian Games bronze medalists for South Korea
Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games
Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games
Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games
Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games
Punggi Jin clan
Sportspeople from Gangwon Province, South Korea