Jin's golden pistol double
South Korea's Jin Jong-Oh completed an Olympic pistol shooting double Sunday, winning the men's 50m pistol gold eight days after his triumph in the 10m pistol.
The 32-year-old sharpshooter amassed 662 total points to lead a South Korean one-two ahead of Choi Young-Rae, who finished with 661.5 points.
China's Wang Zhiwei took bronze with 658.6 points.
Jin was lying in fifth place after the morning qualifying dominated by Choi, while world number one Damir Mikec of Serbia failed to earn a spot in the final as he finished 16th in the first phase.
Jin, winner of the 2008 50m pistol title at Beijing took his tally of Olympic gold medals to three, with two silver from the 10m at Beijing and 50m at Athens in 2004.
He became the first shooter to repeat as 50m pistol gold medallist.
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