In the shooting of the Tokyo Olympics, the men's air rifle qualifying was held, and Japan's Naoya Okada was 20th and Takayuki Matsumoto was 37th, losing in the qualifying.

In the men's air rifle qualifying, 60 shots will be shot at a target 10 meters away within the time limit of 1 hour and 15 minutes, competing for a perfect score of 654 points, and the top 8 players will advance to the final.



Forty-seven people participated in the qualifying, and 30-year-old Okada, who participated in the second consecutive tournament, ranked 20th with 625.7 points, and 37-year-old Matsumoto, who participated for the first time, ranked 37th with 621.7 points. I couldn't make it to the final.



As a result of the finals that followed, William Scheiner of the United States won the gold medal, Sheng Lihao of China won the silver medal, and Hironori Yang of China won the bronze medal.



Okada and Matsumoto are scheduled to participate in the mixed air rifle held on the 27th and the men's rifle 3 posture held on August 2.