Wang Yifu won the gold medal in the 10m air pistol at the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.
According to @ People's Sports, on the 12th, the State General Administration of Sport announced a series of cadre adjustment information on its official website. One of the cadre adjustments, dated December 22, 2020, shows that Wang Yifu, a member of the Expert Committee of the Chinese Olympic Committee and a famous hero of Chinese shooting sports, has retired at an old age.
Born in 1960, Wang Yifu won gold medals in the 10m air pistol at the 1992 Olympic Games and the 2004 Olympic Games during his career.
From 1984 to 2004, he participated in the Olympic Games for six consecutive times and was known as the "Elder of the Six Dynasties" and "the Godfather of Chinese Shooting".
At the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, Wang Yifu, who participated in the Olympic Games for the first time, won the bronze medal in the 50-meter pistol slow-fire event, and his teammate Xu Haifeng won the gold medal in the event, which was also the first Olympic gold medal in Chinese history.
At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, Wang Yifu won his first Olympic gold medal in the men's 10m air pistol.
In 1996, Wang Yifu, who went to the Olympics for the fourth time, fainted due to physical weakness in the final of the 10-meter air pistol, and finally won a silver medal.
In 2000, Wang Yifu and French goalscorer Frank Di Mulan reached the final with a record of 590 rings, and Wang Yifu was finally second with a difference of two rings. At the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, Wang Yifu won the gold medal in the 10m air pistol again.
After retiring from the army in 2005, Wang Yifu served as the head coach of the national shooting team and the coach of the pistol team, and was also elected vice president of the International Shooting Federation.
Author: The Paper's reporter Qi Dong
Source: The Paper