On March 18, the third match of the final team selection competition of the national infantry and pistol shooting team for the Paris Olympics was held in Xi'an, Shaanxi.
In the men's 10-meter air rifle and women's 10-meter air rifle events, Sheng Lihao and Huang Yuting won the championship respectively and were shortlisted for the Paris Olympic Games.
The post-00s will prop up the Chinese shooting team
The Paris Olympics are still five months away, and the Chinese shooting team continues to be in good form in this Olympic cycle, and has achieved quite excellent results in the World Championships, World Cup, Asian Cup and other competitions.
The most important reason why Chinese shooting has been prosperous for a long time is that new talents are constantly emerging, and even the champions who were still in the limelight in the last Olympics have accidentally become the front wave.
At present, the Chinese shooting team has officially confirmed the lineup for the Paris Olympics:
Men's 10m Air Rifle: Sheng Lihao (Jiangsu Team), Du Linshu (Hebei Team)
Women's 10m Air Rifle: Huang Yuting (Zhejiang Team), Han Jiayu (Zhejiang Team)
Men's 10m Air Pistol: Zhang Bowen (Shandong Team), Xie Yu (Guizhou Team)
Women's 10m air pistol: Jiang Ranxin (Shanghai team), Li Xue (Gansu team)
The youngest Huang Yuting was born in 2006 and is not yet 18 years old, and the oldest Zhang Bowen is 28 years old this year.
Three Olympic champions were ruthlessly eliminated
We are familiar with Yang Qian was brutally eliminated in this Olympic cycle and lost the qualification, the competition within the shooting team is fierce, in fact, Yang Qian has withdrawn from the competition early because of poor state and results since a year ago, Huang Yuting, born in 2006, and Sheng Lihao, born in 2004, will write a new chapter in Chinese shooting.
Shooting is a sport with a long sports life, and the Chinese team has also emerged veterans like Wang Yifu, but now Chinese shooting is becoming more and more rolled, and there may be countless pairs of tiger-eyed eyes behind a champion, almost every time it is the young players who take the lead, and the speed of replacement is beyond imagination.
So much so that Yang Qian, who was born in 2000, directly became a "front wave", in fact, it was not only Yang Qian who fell behind, Yang Haoran, who won the 10-meter air rifle mixed team gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics with her, said that her strength was also very strong, but the post-00s were already ready to go, and he missed the Paris Olympics.
Like them, Zhang Changhong, who won the 50m rifle 3 positions championship in Tokyo, was the same age as Yang Qian, but was also eliminated because of his performance in international competitions and results in the trials. Three years ago, the three people who stood on the top podium of the Olympic Games can only applaud and cheer for the younger generations three years later, which highlights the cruelty of competitive sports. And there are many people who don't have the luck of the three of them, and they are eliminated from the competition before they even have time to make it to the Olympics.
Chinese shooting sword aims at Paris to create new brilliance
Despite the young line-up, the competition experience of the players is not inferior, and the youngsters have become "veterans" after the field experience, and Jiang Ranxin is the defending champion of the mixed team 10m air pistol.
Although Sheng Lihao, Huang Yuting and others participated in the Olympic Games for the first time, they were already world champions on the stage of the World Cup and World Championships, and their strength was good, winning many honors for Chinese shooting and breaking world records.
The goal of the Chinese shooting team is to break the best record in the history of the Tokyo Olympics with 4 golds, 1 silver and 6 bronzes.