Practice shooting for 4 years olympic silver, 16-year-old teenager wrote a legend

Sheng Lihao presented the silver medal at the award ceremony.

(Tokyo Olympics) Practice shooting for 4 years olympic silver, 16-year-old teenager wrote a legend

China News Service Tokyo, July 25 Title: Practice shooting for 4 years olympic silver, 16-year-old teenager writes a legend

China News Service reporter Song Fangcan

10.8 rings! The final shot of the men's 10m air rifle final at the Tokyo Olympics, Sheng Lihao scored a near-perfect result.

Although he failed to reverse the opponent because of his stable performance, Sheng Lihao still won a silver medal and wrote his own legend.

It was just 233 days after his 16th birthday.

Love at first sight and love shooting

If it were not for the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics by one year due to the epidemic, Sheng Lihao, who has just entered the first year of high school, may be begging his parents to take where to play this summer.

Sheng Lihao was born in December 2004 in Yangshe Town, Zhangjiagang, and like most small-town teenagers, he reads and loves to play games. When he was 13 years old, his father took him to a shooting club to play. The first time he touched the gun, he showed great talent and developed a strong interest. On the recommendation of the club owner, who was a former professional team member, Sheng Lihao joined the Suzhou Amateur Sports School Shooting Team. After half a year of training, Sheng Lihao has reached the forefront level of the national adult competition and was selected by Yao Yexiang, the rifle coach of the Jiangsu Provincial Shooting Team.

For shooting, Sheng Lihao, who has a slightly introverted personality, has the ability to concentrate and solve problems beyond his age, and can do a good job of stabilizing his mind, stabilizing his body and stabilizing his gun in training and competition. At the same time, he trains hard, loves to use his brain, and does things step by step. With the guidance of a good teacher, Sheng Lihao's talent was stimulated and his progress was rapid. He won three gold medals in the individual and other gold medals in the air rifle at the National Junior Championships. At the end of 2019, he represented his country for the first time at the Asian Championships, winning the team championship and the individual third place in the youth category.

The road to the Olympic Games is bumpy and brilliant

After the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics, the national shooting team underwent reforms, expanded the scope of material selection, and conducted "auditions" through the national championships and national championships in September and November 2020, which gave Sheng Lihao a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. After entering the selection competition of the Olympic Games, unlike the starting point of the 74-point, 59-point and 58-point competition of other national teams, Sheng Lihao began to catch up and surpass all the way from 0 points.

Although Sheng Lihao's enlightenment coach Shen Chaodu admitted that Sheng Lihao's participation in the Olympic Games "only exists the possibility of theoretical promotion", he was not discouraged, and with his solid basic skills, almost all the trials were champions, and finally won the second place in the individual and mixed group selection competitions, and embarked on the last train to the Tokyo Olympic Games.

Fight on the field and win a silver medal

On July 25, the men's 10m air rifle competition for the Olympic Games began. In the qualifiers, Sheng Lihao only ranked eighth, but in the final he played calmly and maturely, and his results were soon in the top two, and in the last two sets of the knockout round, he played an outstanding result of 21.1 rings in succession, surpassing the 20.7 rings and 20.3 rings of the American Player Shana, only because of the large difference in the front points, and was relegated to the second place.

Stepping off the field, Sheng Lihao was very happy to be able to win a silver medal for the country for the first time. "I'm okay in the final, there's no pressure in the game. The coach also made me relax and not think too much. For the feeling of the first Olympic trip, Sheng Lihao said that it was "very lively."

After the game, the Olympic Games officially confirmed that Sheng Lihao became the youngest shooting medalist in the history of the Olympic Games, breaking the historical record that had been held for nearly a hundred years.

Next, Sheng Lihao also has a 10-meter air rifle mixed group competition to participate in. He will prepare carefully, strive for a hundred feet, and go further. (End)

Source: China News Network