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S. Korea's Jin Sets Pistol World Record at 2014 Championship

Written: 2014-09-10 09:42:22Updated: 2014-09-10 12:28:28

S. Korea's Jin Sets Pistol World Record at 2014 Championship

South Korea's sharpshooter Jin Jong-oh has set a new world record at the 2014 International Shooting Sport Federation World Championship in Spain.

Jin won the gold in the men's 50-meter pistol event on Tuesday, shooting 583 points.  

The new record came 34 years after Russia's Aleksandr Remmovich Melentyev scored 581 in 1980.
 
The three-time Olympic champion will return home on Sunday to compete at the Incheon Asian Games set to begin next week.

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