Final day's double brings the People's Republic of China on top of the medal standings in Rio

Thanks to the two medals conquered in the 50m Rifle 3 Positions Men event, the People’s Republic of China jumps on top of the medal standings in Rio de Janeiro (BRA), where the ISSF World Cup stage in all events concluded today.

Hui Zicheng’s Gold and Zhu Qinan’s Bronze are added to the Gold pocketed by Du Li in the 10m Air Rifle Women event, the very first final of the competition. More medals for China have been secured by Cao Yifei, 2nd in the 10m Air Rifle Men, Wang Zhiwei, 3rd in the 50m Pistol Men, Zhang Jingjing, 2nd in the 25m Pistol Women, and Lu Min, 3rd in the Skeet Women event.

The Russian Federation finished the competition in 2nd place, securing 2 Gold medals, 2 Silvers and 1 Bronze. Ukraine followed in 3rd with 2 Golds as well and 1 Bronze.

“The performances of the shooters have been excellent here in Rio. In the qualification ranges they’ve had the perfect conditions to shoot and a new World Record has been shot. Unfortunately, as we all know, the finals hall needs some adjustments, but despite this two other Final World Records were equalled or set.” Said the ISSF Secretary General, Mr. Franz Schreiber. “I feel that now that they got to know the range and got used to it they’re all happy about it.”

Three new world records were equalled or set during the competition.

On Friday, in the 50m Rifle 3 Positions Women qualification round, Croatia’s Snjezana Pejcic scored 594 points, besting the 592 previously scored by Italy’s Petra Zublasing. The following day, Alexei Klimov matched the Finals World Record of the 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men event, tying the 35-points mark set by another Italian shooter, Riccardo Mazzetti.

On the last day of the competiton, then, Hui Zichen rewrote the 50m Rifle 3 Positions Men FWR, besting by 1.2 points the previous one, scored by Russia’s Nazar Louginets, and finishing with 463.7 points.