According to the official website of the International Shooting Sports Federation, at the World Shooting (Pistol) Championships held in Cairo, Egypt, the 14th local time, Huang Yuting, a 16-year-old Chinese player, won silver in the women’s 10 meters air rifle and won another for the Chinese team 1 seat at the Paris Olympics.
This year’s World Championships will distribute 32 Paris Olympics qualifiers across 10 Olympic events, with the top four in 8 individual events. According to the rules, each federation can get a maximum of one place in each single event, and the places will be expanded when the first four players of the same federation appear.
This is the first time that Huang Yuting has participated in an international competition. She played well in the knockout stage of the women’s 10-meter air rifle, finishing first with 264.5 rings in 25 rounds, 3.2 rings more than second-placed American Weiss. The match for the gold medal is in the top two in the knockout stage. The game adopts the “snatch 16” rule; two players face off in a single match, the highest scorer will be awarded 2 points, the lowest scorer will not score and a tie will be awarded 1 point each. Huang Yuting took the lead with 14 points. But then Weiss evened the score with constant play. In the crucial serve, Weiss scored a ring of 10.6 and took the lead by scoring 16 points with a score of 0.3 over Huang Yuting, winning 16:14. Huang Yuting won the silver medal, securing an Olympic seat for the Chinese team. Another Chinese player, Zhang Yu, won the bronze medal.
This World Championship is the first Paris Olympic qualifying match for the Chinese shooting team (pistol project). The team has already played 6 rounds of the World Championship. In the final lineup, “post-00” players represented more than half of them. This World Championship will provide them with valuable training opportunities.
(Original title “16-Year-Old Teen Wins World Championships Silver, Chinese Shooting Team Wins Another Olympic Ticket.” By Gao Wei)
