Hot Shot Chinese Poised to Exceed Gold Target
December 13, 1998 - 0:0
BANGKOK China took their tally of gold medals in shooting to 18 yesterday, just two short of their their pre-Asian Games target. Chinese markswomen swept all four gold medals on offer yesterday and are on course to surpass their target of 20 golds for the whole competition. Head coach Zhang Heng said his shooters have already proved that China are the undisputed champions of Asian shooting.
China remains the number one shooting power in Asia. We had some setbacks earlier in the competitoin but we have come back strongly, he said World champion Cai Yeqing, a 27-year-old from Jiangxi Province, won the women's 25-meter sport pistol event and also led her Chinese teammates to gold in the team competition. Shan Hong produced a similar golden double in the women's 50-meter sport rifle event, winning individual honors and also helping China win the gold.
Cai won the 25-meter sport pistol with a winning total of 685.3 points with Kazakhstan's Yuliya Bondareva taking silver with 683.8. Another Chinese, Cao Ying, won bronze with 681.2. Cai, Cao and Li Duihong joined forces in the team event to beat out Kazakhstan for the gold with a total of 1,743. Kazakhstan's Bondareva, Galina Belyayeva and Dina Aspandiyarov totaled 1,729 for the silver.
Mongolia won the bronze with 1,726. Said Chai after winning the individual gold: I am so glad I made it. I was really nervous in the final.'' Shan, silver medalist at the 1998 World Cup in Milan, shot 672.8 in the final to win the women's 50-meter sport rifle, 60 shots event. Kazakhstan's Olga Dovgun was second with 670.8, only 0.6 ahead of South Korea's Kong Hyun-Ah, who took the bronze.
Shan, Wang Xian and Xu Yimin teamed up for the team gold with 1,715 points. Hosts Thailand won the silver with their team of Jarintorn Dangpiam, Thanyarat Pupiromchaikul and Supunneee Kham-Ai totaling 1,702. Uzbekistan's Juliya Shakhova, Alynova Aksyonova and Nataliya Dolbilina won the bronze with 1,700. China will be looking for another four-gold haul on the final day of the shooting competition today for a total of 22, five short of the 27 gold medals they won eight years ago in Beijing. (AFP)
China remains the number one shooting power in Asia. We had some setbacks earlier in the competitoin but we have come back strongly, he said World champion Cai Yeqing, a 27-year-old from Jiangxi Province, won the women's 25-meter sport pistol event and also led her Chinese teammates to gold in the team competition. Shan Hong produced a similar golden double in the women's 50-meter sport rifle event, winning individual honors and also helping China win the gold.
Cai won the 25-meter sport pistol with a winning total of 685.3 points with Kazakhstan's Yuliya Bondareva taking silver with 683.8. Another Chinese, Cao Ying, won bronze with 681.2. Cai, Cao and Li Duihong joined forces in the team event to beat out Kazakhstan for the gold with a total of 1,743. Kazakhstan's Bondareva, Galina Belyayeva and Dina Aspandiyarov totaled 1,729 for the silver.
Mongolia won the bronze with 1,726. Said Chai after winning the individual gold: I am so glad I made it. I was really nervous in the final.'' Shan, silver medalist at the 1998 World Cup in Milan, shot 672.8 in the final to win the women's 50-meter sport rifle, 60 shots event. Kazakhstan's Olga Dovgun was second with 670.8, only 0.6 ahead of South Korea's Kong Hyun-Ah, who took the bronze.
Shan, Wang Xian and Xu Yimin teamed up for the team gold with 1,715 points. Hosts Thailand won the silver with their team of Jarintorn Dangpiam, Thanyarat Pupiromchaikul and Supunneee Kham-Ai totaling 1,702. Uzbekistan's Juliya Shakhova, Alynova Aksyonova and Nataliya Dolbilina won the bronze with 1,700. China will be looking for another four-gold haul on the final day of the shooting competition today for a total of 22, five short of the 27 gold medals they won eight years ago in Beijing. (AFP)