Since participating in the Olympic Games in 1984, shooting has always been a key project for the Chinese team to win gold, and it is the vanguard of the first gold medal in the Olympic Games. In the 2024 Paris Olympics, in the mixed team 10m air rifle final, the Chinese combination Sheng Lihao and Huang Yuting played well and won the first gold! Congratulations to the Chinese team!
In the mixed team 10m air rifle shooting event, the Chinese shooting team sent two groups of players to participate in the qualifying round, and as a result, the combination of Sheng Lihao and Huang Yuting scored 632.2 rings, ranking first in the qualifying round, and will compete with the Korea pair who ranked second with 631.4 rings for the gold medal. The other Chinese player, Du Linpeng and Han Jiayu, scored 628.5 rings, ranking eighth in the qualifying round.
Gold medal match, Sheng Li Hao and Huang Yuting against the Korea pair. The final adopts a point system, two players from two teams each play one shot in each round, and the total number of rings is added together, with the side with the highest total number of rings getting 2 points, and the side with the lowest total number of rings getting 0 points. If the total number of rings is the same, both teams will score 1 point each for the round. In the end, the first team to score 16 points or more wins.
After five minutes of test firing, the gold medal match officially began. In the first round, Sheng Lihao and Huang Yuting played 20.3 rings, Korea 20.6 rings, and China fell behind 0-2. In the second round, China 21.2 rings and Korea 20.4 rings, the score was 2-2. In the third round, China 21.4 rings, Korea 20.9 rings, China 4-2 lead. In the fourth round, China 20.6 rings, Korea 20.3 rings, China 6-2. Korea decisively called a timeout.
In the fifth round, China 20.7 rings and Korea 20.8 rings, the score was 6-4. In the sixth round, China 21.2 rings and Korea 20.9 rings, the score was 8-4. In the seventh round, China 21.0 rings, Korea 21.4 rings, the score is 8-6. In the eighth round, China 21.0 rings and Korea 20.2 rings, with a score of 10-6. In the ninth round, China 21.2 rings and Korea 21.1 rings, the score is 12-6. In the tenth round, China 20.6 rings and Korea 20.8 rings, the score was 12-8. In the 11th round, China 20.7 rings and Korea 20.3 rings, the score was 14-8. In the 12th round, China 20.8 rings and Korea 21.0 rings, the score was 14-10.
At the critical moment, the Chinese team paused. In the 13th round, China 20.7 rings and Korea 21.4 rings, the score was 14-12. In the 14th round, the Chinese team had 21.5 rings and the Korea team had 21.1 rings, with a score of 16-12 and locked the gold medal.
At the end of the competition, the Paris 2024 Olympic Games shooting event mixed team 10m air rifle, the Chinese team Sheng Lihao and Huang Yuting won the gold medal, the Korea team won the silver medal, the Kazakhstan team defeated the Germany team to win the bronze medal, and Asia won the top three!