Headercolor: | lightblue |
Kang Gee-Eun | |
Birth Date: | 15 October 1990 |
Birth Place: | Seoul, South Korea |
Weight: | 550NaN0 |
Sport: | Shooting |
Event: | Trap, double trap |
Club: | Korea Telecom Shooting Team |
Coach: | Song Nam-Jun |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Kang Gee-Eun (also Gang Ji-Eun, Korean: 강 지은; born October 15, 1990, in Seoul) is a South Korean sport shooter.[1] [2] She beat World Cup champion Yang Huan of China and two-time Olympian Yukie Nakayama of Japan for the gold medal in the women's trap at the 2012 Asian Shooting Championships in Doha, Qatar, accumulating a score of 93 clay pigeons.[3] [4] Kang is also a member of Korea Telecom Shooting Team, and is coached and trained by Song Nam-Jun.[1]
Kang represented South Korea at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where she competed in the women's trap. Kang scored a total of 62 targets in the qualifying rounds by one point ahead of India's Shagun Chowdhary, finishing only in nineteenth place.[5]