China's Du Li wins first gold at Rio Olympic shooting test event

China pocketed the first gold medal of the ISSF World Cup & Rio Olympic shooting test event in Rio de Janeiro, as Du Li claimed the victory in finals of women's 10m air rifle here on Saturday.

The Chinese 34-year-old shooter fought for the gold medal with Russia's Daria Vdovina and Germany's Selina Gschwandtner, who both took the lead of the match along its first half. After the sixth series of final shots, anyway, Du distanced herself from her two rivals, finishing with 208.3 points.

Vdovina, 26, closed with 208.0 points, and Gschwandtner, 21, finished with 186.8.

Besides Vdovina and Gschwandtner, Du also battled with two of closest friend and teammates, Yi Siling, who finished sixth with 123.3 points, and Zhang Binbin, who led the qualification round, but only finished seventh with 101.9 points.

Du came back to shooting competition in January 2015 after two years' temporary retirement for taking care his child. "(The Olympic test event) is only my second finals at international competition, I felt a bit nervous," said the two-time Olympic gold medal winner.

Rio Olympics will be Du's fourth Games in her career and she said the mindset now is different from the former three Olympics.

"I'm keeping a peaceful mindset. For me to go back to the Olympics is not easy, I'm learning to enjoy the match." Endi