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Shooter Sheng Lihao mentioned at present that he was particularly blissful after profitable the primary gold medal on the XXXIII Olympic Video games in Paris 2024, which opened the day earlier than in an enormous ceremony with the River Seine because the protagonist.
Sheng and her teammate Huang Yuting gained the 10m air rifle blended workforce occasion, which they gained 16-12 over South Koreans Jihyeon and Hajun Park within the remaining on the Chateauroux taking pictures centre.
That is the second Olympic medal gained by the younger Chinese language shooter – he’ll flip 20 on December 4 – as he gained the silver medal within the particular person occasion of the identical modality in Tokyo 2020, the identical one through which he’ll compete once more at this occasion underneath the 5 rings.
Chatting with Video games tv, Sheng acknowledged that it was an in depth and tough remaining, which was determined in his workforce’s favour because of each he and his teammate (Huang) attaining private greatest performances in each occasions.
She added that this was only the start of her profession and thanked her coaches for the aggressive maturity she had acquired and the focus she had proven to beat tense moments towards the totally different rival groups, significantly after they needed to come again towards the South Koreans after ranging from behind within the remaining.
Regardless of her younger age, Sheng has three medals at world championships: two bronze medals (particular person and blended workforce) on the 2022 Egypt version and one gold medal within the workforce occasion at Baku 2023.
The rostrum on this occasion was accomplished by the Kazakhs Islam Satpayev and Alexandra Le, who comfortably beat the German duo 17-5.
Saturday was a really productive day for China, as only a few minutes after the ultimate shot put, divers Yani Chang and Yiwen Cheng additionally gained gold within the synchronized diving occasion from the three-meter springboard.
Yani, a four-time world champion, and Yiwen dominated the 5 rounds of vaulting with their nearly flawless executions, which allowed them to attain 337.68 factors, unattainable for the duos from the USA (314.64) and the UK (302.28), winners of silver and bronze, respectively.
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