China’s Yang Haoran earned the first Rio 2016 shooting place by winning the men’s 10m air rifle event, eclipsing Russia’s Nazar Louginets by 1.9 points.
“I’m honoured that I claimed the first Olympic quota for my country,” Haoran told the official Rio 2016 Olympic website.
“The world championships is a huge competition. The best shooters of the world are here. I felt the pressure at the beginning of the final, but then I zeroed in and was able to climb up on top,” he said.
South Korea’s three-time Olympic champion Jin Jong-Oh won gold medals in the men’s 10m air pistol and 50m pistol. He also set a new world record in the 50m pistol with 583 points, breaking the mark of 581 points set by Alexander Melentiev in 1980.
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