In shooting, South Korea's Jin Jong-Oh garnered a gold medal in men's Olympic 50 meter pistol. The gold medal went to Russian Mikhail Nestruev.

Jin had carried a two point lead over Nestruev into the 10-shot final at the hilltop Markopoulo Olympic shooting center but the Russian took the lead after the fourth shot.

Nestruev's final score of 663.3 points was 1.8 clear of Jin's 661.5. North Korea's Kim Jong-Su finished third with 657.7 to give his country their first men's medal of the Games.

In the two-hour qualifying session, during which the competitors fired 60 bullets each at a target 50 meters away with a bullseye just five centimeters across, Jin had racked up a tally of 567 points to Nestruev's 565.

Jin's silver medal was the second Olympic medal South Korea has won in the shooting competition, following a bronze medal captured by Lee Bo Na in the women's trap final on Tuesday.