(Tokyo Olympics) Practice shooting for 4 years to win the Olympic Games, 16-year-old boy writes a legend

　　China News Service, Tokyo, July 25th. Title: Practice shooting for 4 years and win Olympic silver, 16-year-old writes a legend

　　China News Agency reporter Song Fangcan

　　10.8 ring!

In the final shot of the men's 10m air rifle at the Tokyo Olympics, Sheng Lihao scored a near-perfect result.

　　Although his opponent was unable to reverse his performance due to stable performance, Sheng Lihao still won a silver medal and wrote his own legend.

　　On this day, 233 days have passed since his 16th birthday.

Love at first sight, fall in love with shooting

　　If it were not for the epidemic that caused the Tokyo Olympics to be postponed for one year, Sheng Lihao, who had just finished his first year of high school, might be begging his parents where to take them to play this summer.

　　Sheng Lihao was born in Yangshe Town, Zhangjiagang in December 2004. Like most small-town teenagers, he reads and loves to play games.

When he was 13, his father took him to a shooting club to play.

When he touched the gun for the first time, he showed great talent and developed a keen interest.

Under the recommendation of the club owner who was a professional player, Sheng Lihao joined the shooting team of Suzhou Amateur Sports School.

After half a year of training, Sheng Lihao has reached the forefront level of the national adult competition, and was selected by Yao Ye, the rifle coach of the Jiangsu shooting team.

　　For shooting, Sheng Lihao, who has a slightly introverted personality, has the ability to focus and solve problems beyond his age, and can well stabilize his mind, body and gun in training and competition.

At the same time, he trains hard, loves to use his brain, and does things one step at a time.

With the guidance of a mentor, Sheng Lihao's talent was stimulated and he made rapid progress.

He won three individual gold medals in the National Youth Championship for Air Rifle.

At the end of 2019, he represented the country in the Asian Championship for the first time and won the youth team championship and individual third place.

The road to the Olympics was bumpy and brilliant

　　After the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics, the national shooting team carried out reforms and expanded the selection of talents. Through the national championships and national championships in September and November 2020, the "sea selection" was conducted, which gave Sheng Lihao a golden opportunity.

After entering the Olympic trials, unlike the starting points of 74, 59, and 58 points for other national teams, Sheng Lihao started from 0 points to catch up and overtake.

　　Although Sheng Lihao’s enlightenment coach Shen Chao said frankly that Sheng Lihao’s participation in the Olympics “only has the possibility of promotion”, he was not discouraged. With his solid basic skills, he was champion in almost every trial and finally won the individual competition. The second place in the mixed team trial, embarked on the last train to the Tokyo Olympics.

Fierce battle in the arena, winning a silver

　　On July 25th, the men's 10m air rifle competition for the Olympic Games started.

In the qualifying round, Sheng Lihao was only eighth, but in the finals he played calmly and matured, and his results soon ranked in the top two. In the final two sets of the knockout rounds, he scored 21.1 rounds in succession. It surpassed the 20.7 ring and 20.3 ring of the American player Shana, only because of the large difference in the previous points, and ranked second.

　　After stepping off the field, Sheng Lihao was very happy to be able to win a silver medal for the country for the first time in the competition.

"My performance in the finals was okay, there was no pressure in the game. The coach also let me relax, don't think too much." Sheng Lihao expressed his feelings about the first Olympic trip, "It's very lively."

　　After the game, the Olympic Games officially confirmed that Sheng Lihao became the youngest shooting medalist in the history of the Olympic Games, breaking the historical record that had been maintained for nearly a hundred years.

　　Next, Sheng Lihao also has a 10m air rifle mixed team competition to participate in.

He will prepare carefully, strive for success and go further.

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