LIMA, April 15 (Xinhua) — China’s Wang Zhilin took the ladies’s 10m air rifle gold in her first ISSF World Cup in Lima, Peru on Saturday.
The 19-year-old made her World Cup debut on Friday within the blended staff occasion, however ranked solely 14th within the qualification paired with Olympic champion Yang Haoran.
Adjusting her kind, Wang completed fourth with 630 factors within the ladies’s qualification, which was led by her compatriot Han Jiayu with 633.4. She improved to prime of the rating match with 262.8 factors, adopted by Hungary’s 20-year-old Eszter Meszaros.
Han, however, failed to carry on to her 0.2-point lead earlier than the ultimate sequence and misplaced the bronze medal to Jeanette Hegg Duestad of Norway.
In the gold medal match between two younger shooters, Wang displayed nice stability, making just one shot under 10.4 and took her maiden World Cup victory 17-9 over Meszaros.
In the boys’s 10m air rifle competitors, Zalan Pekler of Hungary added one other gold to his blended staff triumph on Friday, beating Japanese two-time Olympian Naoya Okada 16-10 within the ultimate duel. The bronze went to Jiri Privratsky of the Czech Republic, who edged Yang by 0.1 level.
The Lima World Cup can have the penultimate match day on Sunday with ladies’s 25m pistol and 50m rifle 3 positions matches to be staged.