In the qualifying round of shooting - the 2024 Olympic women's 10m air pistol event held yesterday (July 27), shooter Trinh Thu Vinh excellently won a ticket to the final round with 578 points, ranked 4th out of 44 athletes. mobilize.
The representative of Vietnam scored 97 points with 7 series of 10 points and 3 scores of 9 (shot 1); 94 points with 5 shots of 10 points, 4 points of 9 and 1 point of 8 (shot 2); 96 points with 6 shots for 10 points, 4 shots for 9 points (shot 3); 97 points with 7 10s, 3 9s (shot 4); 100 points with 10 perfect scores (5 shots); 94 points (6 shots).
The female shooter born in 2000 is only 4 points behind the leader, Veronika Major, and is also the athlete with the second most hits (only less than Indian shooter Bhaker Manu).
According to the competition schedule, at 5:00 p.m. this afternoon (July 28), Trinh Thu Vinh entered the competition with 8 other athletes in the 2024 Olympic women's 10m air pistol final round, including Jiang Ranxin, Li Xue (China), Tarhan Sevval Ilayda (Turkey), Bhaker Manu (India), Kim Ye-ji, Oh Ye-jin (South Korea) and Major Veronika (Hungary).
Among them, Chinese team shooter Jiang Ranxin is considered the most formidable opponent. The star born in 2000 is a natural shooting talent, holding a series of world records in air pistol content.
In 2021, in her first Olympic appearance in Tokyo, Jiang Ranxin won the gold medal in the mixed team event and the women's 10m air pistol individual bronze medal. Recently, she also broke the women's Olympic air pistol record in the qualifying round with 587 points.
Jiang Ranxin has 6 years of professional competition experience and won 2 gold medals in 2018 at the World Shooting Championship (ISSF). At the ISSF Cairo 2022 tournament, the female athlete continued to set a new record by winning 591 points after 60 shots in the qualifying round.
From 2022 until now, Jiang Ranxin has brought home 4 more world championship gold medals in the categories of women's 50m air pistol (2022), women's 10m air pistol team (2022), 50m air pistol mixed team (2022) and women's 10m air pistol (2023).
Good performance at the ISSF tournament helped Jiang Ranxin rise quickly, entering the top 5 in the world in the women's air pistol event. She, Kim Ye-ji and Li Xue are the only three athletes in the top 10 of the ISSF rankings to participate in the 2024 Paris Olympic finals.
Although the qualifying results were not really good, Jiang Ranxin only ranked 8th and almost said goodbye to the tournament. But with his performances over the years, the class of the Chinese sniper is still highly appreciated.
As for Thu Vinh, among the eight shooters participating in the final, the Vietnamese athlete is the only one who has never won a medal at the world championship.
Her best achievement is the top 5 in the women's 10m air pistol event at the 2023 world championship, a condition to win tickets to the 2024 Olympics. However, with her performance in the qualifying round, fans can expect Hope for a positive result from Trinh Thu Vinh in the final round.
