(Tokyo Olympics) Chinese players add one more silver and two bronzes to the shooting range

  China News Agency, Tokyo, July 25th (Reporter Song Fangcan) The Tokyo Olympic shooting venue is celebrating its second match day on the 25th.

In the men's 10-meter air rifle final, the "double insurance" composed of Yang Haoran and Sheng Lihao failed to win the championship as expected, and the gold medal was taken by American player William Shaner.

In the women's 10-meter air pistol competition, Chinese player Jiang Ranxin won a bronze medal.

  The men's 10-meter air rifle is the traditional advantage of the Chinese shooting team. Cai Yalin, Zhu Qinan and others have won Olympic champions in this event.

The 21-year-old Yang Haoran has now grown into the number one player of the Chinese team in this event. He has won the World Championships champion and the Asian Games two consecutive championships.

He aims to win gold in Tokyo this time, to make up for the regret of failing to make it to the final of the Rio Olympics.

Sheng Lihao, who is only 16 years old, is the youngest player in the Chinese delegation. He has only been exposed to shooting for three years and played well in the previous Olympic trials and was finally shortlisted for the Olympics.

  In the preliminaries, Yang Haoran led all the way and ranked first to reach the finals, while Sheng Lihao played poorly for a time, and only after he made his way into the finals with eighth place.

  In the first stage of the final, Yang Haoran failed to maintain his previous good condition and only ranked fourth, while Sheng Lihao became more and more courageous and ranked second.

After the brutal second stage of the final knockout, Sheng Lihao chased William Shaner all the way, and Yang Haoran rose to third.

  In the final championship decisive battle, due to Shana's exceptionally stable performance, Sheng Lihao failed to get a chance to surpass, ranked second and won a silver medal, while Yang Haoran ranked third.

  After the game, Sheng Lihao said that he was satisfied with the second place in the Olympic Games for the first time. In the final, he did not feel too much pressure on the brave American players.

He frankly said that in the last two shots, he knew the slight gap between himself and his opponent.

  Yang Haoran commented that his performance was "pass". The preparations before the match were relatively adequate. The performance in the first half of the finals did fluctuate, but the adjustment was still timely. Point." He said frankly that he was basically satisfied with his overall performance. "The national flag was raised but the national anthem was not played, which is a bit regrettable." He said.

  In the women's 10m air pistol competition that ended earlier, the 21-year-old Chinese teenager Jiang Ranxin led the way in the preliminaries and reached the final with the first result.

However, the final stage did not perform well. Although the latter half made efforts to catch up all the way, but ultimately failed to achieve a reversal and harvested a bronze medal for the Chinese team.

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