On the morning of July 27, the 10-meter air pistol mixed team competition of the new event of the Tokyo Olympic Games was launched, and the Chinese shooting duo of Pang Wei and Jiang Ranxin, who had a 14-year-old age difference, played well and advanced all the way from the first and second stages of the qualification round. In the final gold medal match of the project, the "most cute age difference" pair came last, defeating the Russian Olympic Committee players 16:14 in the decisive two shots, winning the seventh gold medal for the Chinese delegation since the start of the competition.
It is worth mentioning that this is likely to be the closing performance of the 35-year-old veteran Pang Wei at the Olympic Games, who partnered with jiang Ranxin, a post-00 athlete, to leave no regrets in his career!
On July 27, the Tokyo Olympic Games shooting mixed team 10m air pistol preliminaries, the Chinese combination (Jiang Ranxin + Pang Wei) played according to visual China
Relationships are harmonious
Pang Wei usually calls Jiang Ranxin "big niece"
Pang Wei was born on July 19, 1986, and Jiang Ranxin was born on May 2, 2000, with a 14-year age difference between the two. When 14-year-old Pang Wei entered the Baoding Amateur Sports School Shooting Center to start practicing shooting, Jiang Ranxin was just born! In 2008, when Pang Wei won the gold medal for the men's 10m air pistol for the Chinese shooting team at the Beijing Olympic Games, Jiang Ranxin was a junior primary school student.
Jiang Ranxin in the previous competition according to IC photo
But the two, 14 years apart, formed a team at the Tokyo Olympics. Pang Wei and Jiang Ranxin had both previously won bronze medals in their respective 10m air pistol finals, and on July 27 they fought side by side in the 10m air pistol mixed team competition. This is a new event at the Tokyo Olympics and also to make the shooting event more attractive.
In fact, Pang Wei and Jiang Ranxin had teamed up two years ago to participate in the 10-meter air pistol mixed team competition of the 2019 International Shooting Federation Shooting World Cup in Beijing, and as a result, the two tacitly cooperated and won a valuable silver medal. In this year's National Shooting Championship, Pang Wei and Jiang Ranxin joined hands again to win the 10-meter air pistol mixed team championship.
The experience of cooperation in recent years has made Pang Wei and Jiang Ranxin, the "most cute age difference" partner, very familiar with each other. Jiang Ranxin's mother Gu Chunyan revealed that the atmosphere of the Chinese shooting team is particularly good, and Pang Wei usually calls Jiang Ranxin "big niece", which shows how harmonious the relationship between the veteran and the newcomer is.
Re-emerge
Previously, Pang Wei had not trained systematically for two years
After winning the bronze medal in the men's 10m air pistol event, Pang Wei has become the second most medalist in the Chinese shooting team at the Olympic Games, behind only the famous Wang Yifu. In fact, after winning the bronze medal at the Rio Olympics, Pang Wei has gradually begun to transform into a coach. Considering that the Chinese shooting team really has no young players to pick up the girder in the 10-meter air pistol event, Pang Wei, who has not had systematic training for two years, resolutely re-emerged as an athlete.
Although he failed to win the gold medal in the men's 10m air pistol event at the Tokyo Olympics, this bronze medal was also precious to Pang Wei, and he also said after the game: "I am very happy to get the bronze medal, which is also an affirmation of my efforts in the past period of time, and it has been worth more than two years!" ”
On July 24, at the men's 10m air pistol competition at the Tokyo Olympics, China's Pang Wei won the bronze medal. Image according to IC photo
Pang Wei knows that the Tokyo Olympics are likely to be his last Olympic trip, and the 10-meter air pistol mixed team competition with Jiang Ranxin is his "farewell performance" at the Olympic Games. In the first stage of this morning's qualifying round, Pang Wei/Jiang Ranxin played steadily, and the previous three finishers successfully advanced; the other Chinese player Wang Qian/He Zhengyang won the seventh place, also advancing to the second stage of the qualifier.
According to the rules, in the second stage of the qualifiers, the first and second places will participate in the gold medal competition, and the third and fourth places will participate in the bronze medal competition, so the second stage of the qualification is particularly important! As a result, Pang Wei and Jiang Ranxin lived up to expectations, and in the second stage, the two advanced to the gold medal with the first place and competed with the Russian Olympic Committee team for the gold medal! In the end, pang Wei and Jiang Ranxin, the "uncle + big niece" combination lived up to expectations, successfully won the gold medal in this new Olympic event, and won the second gold of the Olympic Games for the Chinese shooting team!
This gold medal is also enough to draw a satisfactory end to the legendary Olympic journey of the post-80s veteran Pang Wei; and for the post-00s young player Jiang Ranxin, this mixed team gold medal is just her beginning. The 21-year-old will take over the banner of Pang Wei and other predecessors and lead the Chinese shooting team to continue to move forward!
Red Star News reporter Jiang Shan
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