On March 2, Beijing time, the 2022 National Shooting Championships recently ended the competition for the men's 10-meter air rifle event. Because it is related to the selection of the Hangzhou Asian Games, a number of famous players, including Yang Haoran, Sheng Lihao, and Zhang Changhong, have all signed up to participate. In the end, Hebei teenager Du Linshu, born in 2004, won the championship as a dark horse.
The men's 10m air rifle qualifiers played in 6 groups of 10 rounds each, with a total of 83 runners participating. As a result, Yang Haoran ranked first with an excellent result of 635.2 rings and advanced to the final with his head held high. Olympic champion Zhang Changhong was eliminated in only 27th place, but his main event is the 50m rifle, which will be played on the second matchday. In addition, the 18-year-old talented teenager Sheng Lihao, the runner-up of the Tokyo Olympic Games, was also eliminated in the 9th place in the qualification round, and it was Du Linshu who finally won the championship who squeezed him out of the whistle to advance. Different from the final format of the Tokyo Olympic Games, the final of this championship will divide the 8 players into two groups, each of them will play 10 rounds first, using the method of scoring without counting the rings, and each highest ring will get 4 points, followed by 3 points, 2 points, 1 point, and the lowest total score after 10 rounds will be eliminated.
After two of the eight players who advanced to the final were eliminated, they played five more rounds, and the top two in the group with the total score advanced to the final four. The Semifinals use the same format, with the lowest points after 10 rounds being the fourth placer, the lowest points after 15 rounds being the third placer, and the remaining two advancing to the gold medal. The format of the gold medal tournament is similar to that of the Tokyo Olympics Mixed Team Finals, with the winner of the 16 points first. As a result, Yang Haoran, who ranked first in the qualifiers, fell into the round of 6 into 4, and Zhu Xu and Du Linshu, who ranked 7th and 8th in the qualifiers, reached the gold medal. In the gold medal competition, Du Linshu's form was more stable, beating his opponent 17-9 to win the championship. Although this new format led to a significant increase in the number of competitions, Du Linshu, who was born in 2004 and was also only 18 years old, laughed all the way to the end of the final with his "big heart", which showed his talent. In fact, he is also from the Hebei shooting team, he is Yang Haoran's little disciple, and the two also joined forces to win the gold medal of the men's 10-meter air rifle team at the 14th National Games, which is worth looking forward to in the future.