Roundup: Italy becomes biggest winner in Rio Olympic shooting

The Rio Olympic shooting concluded all its finals after Italian Niccolo Campriani won the men's 50m rifle three positions on Sunday, enabling Italy to become the biggest winner by taking four out of the 15 gold medals on offer, and collected a total of seven medals.

Italian shooters did a good job on rifles and shotguns. Campriani managed to get into the final on all the three events he participated in. He collected two gold medals, becoming the fifth Italian athlete to win at least three Olympic gold medals in any individual event.

Italy bagged three out of the six medals produced in men's and women's skeet. Diana Bacosi and Chiara Cainero took gold and silver respectively in women's skeet, while 21-year-old Gabriele Rossetti won gold in men's.

Germany was placed second on the shooting medal list with three golds and one silver. 33-year-old Barbara Engleder claimed the title on women's 50m rifle three positions, her first medal in four Olympic Games. Christian Reitz and Henri Junghaenel contributed the other two golds for Germany.

Shooting powerhouse China collected as many as seven medals, but only one of them is gold, which came from Olympic debutant Zhang Mengxue in women's 10m air pistol. China had sent 22 shooters to Rio, and more than half of them appeared in the finals. The team had aimed for more golds, but they were just not lucky enough to reach the goal.

The Rio Olympic Shooting Center witnessed several milestones for Olympics and the shooting sport.

The 41-year-old veteran Hoang Xuan Vinh won the first-ever Olympic gold medal for Vietnam after claiming the men's 10m air pistol event. He said he would continue his career after the Olympics.

Jin Jongoh from South Korea won his fourth Olympic gold medal in men's 50m pistol, becoming the first shooter to win three straight Olympic golds in the same event (men's 50m pistol).

The 49-year-old Kuwait Fehaid Aldeehani won gold in men's double trap, which produced the first Olympic gold medal for Independent Olympic Athlete.

The 37-year-old U.S. veteran Kimberly Rhode won the bronze medal of the women's skeet, setting a legendary record of winning at least one medal in six consecutive Games. She was the first female athlete in Olympic history to achieve the milestone.

The ISSF President Olegario Vazquez Raña was pretty satisfied of the competition.

"We have witnessed the best shooting sport competitions in the history of the sport here in Rio de Janeiro, we would like to thank the Rio 2016 Organizing Committee, and all the volunteers who worked with us in these days," he told ISSF official website.

"The rule changes we adopted after London 2012 proved to be successful, improving the presentation of our sport." Endit