20-year old Li Yuehong of China won his second consecutive World Cup Gold, followed by two young shooters in second and third place.
The 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men Final was a stage of success for young athletes, at the 2010 ISSF Word Cup in Rifle, Pistol and Shotgun events in Beijing, as three shooters in their early 20s finished on the podium beating titled and expert shooters.
Spotlights were on the 20-year old Chinese finalist Li Yuehong, who won his second consecutive ISSF World Cup Gold medal in this event, just weeks far from his first victory in Sydney.
Li, who competed for the first time on the international scene last March at the first 2010 ISSF World Cup stage in Sydney winning an odd-defying Gold medal, repeated himself on the lines of the 2008 Olympic range of Beijing.
The home shooter made it into the final in first place, with a qualification of 585 points, and left no chances to his opponents. Supported by the home crowd cheering for him after every final series, the young athlete climbed up in first place with a total score of 785.8 points, after scoring 200.8 points during the final. The debuting shooter claimed his second consecutive Gold medal, climbing the World Ranking up to the third place, and frightening the Running Target establishment, the German shooters Reitz and Schumann who had been the protagonists of the last Olympic Games.
Following the 20-year old Lin, two young shooters placed in second and third place. Russia’s 24-year old Ivan Stoukachev secured the Silver medal with 783.4 points (582+201.4). China’s second finalist, the 2007 World Cup Final Silver medallist Ding Feng, 23, ended up in third place grabbing today’s Bronze with 778.8 (581+197.8) points.