Chinese sharpshooters have won a silver and two bronze medals in
the second day's competitions of the ISSF World Cup in Munich,
Germany.
Chen Ying and Fei Fengji finished 2nd and 3rd respectively in
the women's 25m sport pistol event, while veteran Tan Zongliang won
the other bronze for China in the men's 50m pistol event.
In the women's competition, all three markswomen reached the
finals, a decisive show of China's strength in the field.
28-year-old Chen Ying won the silver, comfortably edging out
teammate Fei Fengji, 23. Chen was only 0.5 behind the gold medal
winner, Gundegmaa Otryad from Mongolia.
Another Chinese, Li Duihong, was placed seventh.
In the men's 50m pistol event, nine-time world cup medalist Tan
cleared fourth place after the qualification round, moving ahead of
fifth-placed Russian Vladimir Gontcharov and sixth-placed
Kanstantin Lukashyk from Belarus. Lukashyk will attend the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008 in the quota
allocation for Belarus.
The gold medal went to Portugal's Joao Costa who gave an
incredible performance. The runner-up in the qualifiers, Costa
finally caught up to Vladimir Isakov, bridging the five-point
advantage the Russian started off with in the finals.
Isakov had to settle for the silver.
Athens Olympic champion Zhu Qinan of China finished with a score
of 701.1 to win the silver in the men's 10m air rifle the day
before.
(CRI English May 26, 2006)