Ban Hyo-jin is giving an interview with a bright smile after winning the gold medal in the high school girls’ rifle individual finals at the National Sports Festival held at the Changwon International Shooting Range on the 11th. Reporter Jeon Chang-hoon” width=”640″ height=”1244″ />
Ban Hyo-jin is giving an interview with a bright smile after winning the gold medal in the high school girls’ rifle individual finals at the National Sports Festival held at the Changwon International Shooting Range on the 11th. Reporter Jeon Chang-hoon
Shooting medalists who did not receive a reward from the Korea Shooting Federation despite achieving the best performance ever at the 2024 Paris Olympics will receive the reward belatedly.
The Korea Shooting Federation recently held a general meeting of delegates and decided to raise financial resources from the Federation Promotion Fund and pay a total of 321 million won to medalists and leaders.
Of this, 315 million won is the Olympic prize money received by athletes and coaches, and the remaining 6 million won is the amount that will be returned to athletes who have secured the right to participate in the Olympics.
According to the federation’s regulations, the prize money for an Olympic gold medalist is 50 million won, a silver medalist is 20 million won, and a bronze medalist is 10 million won.
And the reward for the leader is half that of the players: 25 million won (gold medal), 10 million won (silver medal), and 5 million won (bronze medal).
At the Paris Olympics, Korean shooting achieved its best performance ever, winning three gold medals and three silver medals.
Ban Hyo-jin, a second-year student at Daegu Physical Education High School, won the women’s air rifle 10m gold medal, becoming the 100th and youngest person to win a gold medal at the Korean Summer Olympics.
Ji-in Yang (Korea National Sport University) won the gold medal in the 25m pistol event after a close shoot-off with Camille Jedrzejski of the host country, France, and Yejin Oh (IBK Industrial Bank of Korea) won the gold medal with Yeji Kim (Imsil County Office) in the women’s 10m air pistol event. Korean athletes competed for the gold medal and won the gold medal.
Kim Ye-ji, who won the silver medal behind Oh Ye-jin, became a world-famous shooting star thanks to the video of the match posted on social media, while Park Ha-jun (KT) and Geum Ji-hyeon Geum (Gyeonggi Provincial Office) won the air rifle mixed silver medal, the first medal for the Korean team at the Paris Olympics.
Cho Young-jae, who participated in the Olympics as a member of the Armed Forces Athletic Corps, won a silver medal in the rapid-fire pistol and met the qualifications for early discharge, but fulfilled his military service obligations until the end and was discharged at the end of last month.
Originally, the Shooting Federation planned to pay Olympic prize money with the 300 million won contribution that former president Shin Myung-ju promised when she took office last June.
However, former Chairman Shin resigned without contributing the promised amount after it became known that the wages of the hospital staff he was operating were unpaid.
The Shooting Federation was verbally promised to pay contributions by former president Shin when he resigned, but decided to use the promotion fund as it judged that payment of Olympic prize money was urgent.
In order to use the federation promotion fund, approval is required from the Korea Sports Council, a higher-level organization.
The Federation Promotion Fund began to be accumulated by the Shooting Federation in the 1980s, and is currently known to have accumulated approximately 1.65 billion won.
The Shooting Federation plans to pay rewards to athletes as early as next month after completing the approval process after the Korean Sports Council’s government inspection.
