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Source: Modern Express Full Media
Editor: Yu Shuang
Time: September 25, 2023 20: 24: 48
On September 25th, who was the most beautiful boy in Hangzhou Asian Games? The answer is Sheng Lihao from Jiangsu.
In the men’s 10m air rifle final of the Asian Games shooting event, Sheng Lihao won the championship by breaking the world record and successfully shot down his first Asian Games gold medal. Not only that, he also became the first athlete of China team in Hangzhou Asian Games to break the world record. If the Indian team had not broken the world record in the men’s 10m air rifle team event earlier, Sheng Lihao might even have become the first athlete to set the world record in Hangzhou Asian Games. On this day, he was only 18 years old.
Break records one after another
On the same day, the men’s 10m air rifle team final of Hangzhou Asian Games took the lead, and Sheng Lihao, Yu Haonan and Du Linshu of China shooting team joined hands to play. In the end, China won the team bronze medal with a score of 1888.2. Although it is only a bronze medal, Sheng Lihao’s personal performance is very good. The 10m air rifle team final of the Asian Games is also the qualification of individual competition. The top eight players in individual competition will enter the competition for the individual championship.
In the team competition, Sheng Lihao ranked first among all athletes with a score of 634.5, which broke the two records of the Asian Qualifiers and the Asian Games Qualifiers. Later, in the individual final, Sheng Lihao joined hands with teammate Du Linshu. At the beginning of the competition, Sheng Lihao’s performance was slightly behind that of South Korean competitors. With the deepening of the game, Sheng Lihao found his best state, hit a “full ring” score of 10.9, and completed the overtaking. The young shooter showed his extremely stable mentality and skills to everyone on the scene.
Before the last shot was fired, Sheng Lihao was close to the second place, and there was basically no suspense in the championship. The only suspense is that Sheng Lihao is only 10.2 rings short of breaking the world record of the men’s 10m air rifle individual event. In this game, Sheng Lihao’s basic guns are around 10.5 rings. Hold your breath, Sheng Lihao shot, 10.6 ring! Sheng Lihao set a new world record of the project-253.3 rings, with a score of 0.7 rings exceeding the original record.
Raise the banner of shooting?
Many people know Sheng Lihao at the Tokyo Olympic Games. At that time, at the age of 16, he won the silver medal in his first world competition and became the youngest shooting medal winner in Olympic history. But what many people don’t know is that Sheng Lihao touched a gun for the first time at the age of 13. After half a year’s training, he became one of the top 15 in China. After three years’ practice, he has been in the Olympic Games and is known as a “genius boy”. Another interesting thing is that Sheng Lihao, who was only 16 years old at that time, couldn’t qualify for the Olympic Games with zero Olympic points if the Tokyo Olympic Games were not postponed for one year. It is precisely because of the postponement of the Olympic Games that Sheng Lihao emerged in several Olympic trials.
After the Tokyo Olympic Games, Sheng Lihao actually had a period of fluctuation. At the National Games in Shaanxi in 2021, he missed the gold medal of the individual 10m air rifle. In the post-match interview, he could not hide his feelings of loss. Fortunately, after entering the Paris Olympic cycle, Sheng Lihao became more and more mature, especially after coming to 2023, at the World Cup in Baku, Azerbaijan in May, Sheng Lihao relied on 637..The result of the 9th ring set a world record in the qualifying round of this event.
When he came to Hangzhou Asian Games, Sheng Lihao went further. He not only won the first Asian Games title in his career, but also set foot on the top of Asia by breaking the world record. This means that in the face of the upcoming Paris Olympic Games next year, the young Sheng Lihao has the hard power to become a leading man in men’s shooting in China.
New generation golden couple
Shooting is the first final event of the Olympic Games, which determines who will win the “first gold”, so all countries attach great importance to this event. In recent years, many new stars have emerged in the shooting arena. For example, Yang Qian, who won the “first gold medal” for China at the Tokyo Olympic Games, became a star athlete after the Olympic Games and enrolled in Tsinghua. At the Asian Games in Hangzhou, Huang Yuting of the women’s 10m air rifle took 252..The 7th Ring broke the Asian record and won the gold medal in the women’s 10m air rifle team competition, becoming the first “double champion” in the China delegation of this Asian Games.
Huang Yuting and Sheng Lihao, a new Asian champion for women and a new Asian champion for men, both won the championship by breaking the world record, becoming a new generation of golden couple for shooting in China. In the next competition, the two will partner up for the gold medal in the 10m air rifle mixed team event.
Although in the interview after the game, Sheng Lihao said that he had not discussed with Huang Yuting about the competition, as far as the performance of this Asian Games is concerned, two young people under the age of 20 who also have strong strength and strong heart will undoubtedly be the core figures on which China’s shooting future depends, and it is expected to shoulder the heavy responsibility of China Shooting Corps to hit the “first gold medal” in the Paris Olympic Games.
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(Proofreading Zhang Jingchao)