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Chinese teenager wins shooting World Cup

Xinhua, August 11, 2015 Adjust font size:

Chinese youngster Cao Lijia clinched her first international title by winning the women's 25-meter pistol event at the shooting World Cup here on Tuesday, while her compatriot Mai Jiajie finished on top at the men's 50m pistol final.

Cao, 18, beat Russia's Vitalina Batsarashkina with a net score of 7 to 1 points in the gold medal match after passing through the semi-final with 18 hits.

"This is a great birthday present. I turned 18 just one month ago, and this medal is the best thing that could happen to me," Cao told the International Shooting Sports Federation afterwards.

Batsarashkina, also 18, won the silver medal, together with an Olympic quota place for Russia.

Cao's teammate Zhang Jingjing, the reigning world champion, claimed the bronze medal by defeating the London 2012 Olympic bronze medalist Olena Kostevych of Ukraine by 7-3.

Earlier in the day, the men's 50m pistol event had already saw Chinese shooter Mai Jiajie winning his first World Cup gold medal. The 27-year-old Asian champion in 2013 made a personal breakthrough in his first final match in two years with a score of 194.7, over three points of advantage on silver medalist Park Daehun from South Korea.

Park's young compatriot Kim Cheongyong, 18, made it to the third step of the podium, collecting his first international medal with 169.9 points.

In the men's double trap event, the 2008 Olympic champion Walton Eller from the United States took his first World Cup gold medal since 2007. The 33-year-old American soldier beat Steven Scott of Britain by 30 to 26 targets in the final round for gold medal after surviving the semi-final with 29 targets and a 14-target shoot-off.

The silver medalist Scott, who led the semi-final with perfect 30 targets, gained a quota place for Rio Olympics for his country. The other ticket to Rio 2016 went to Germany's Michael Goldbrunner, who lost to Russian veteran Vasily Mosin in the bronze medal match.

The last ISSF World Cup stage of the season, with 34 Olympic quota places to offer in 15 events, was to be concluded here on Saturday. Endi