Olympic bronze medalist Lee Meng-yuan has become the first Taiwanese athlete to top the International Shooting Sport Federation’s (ISSF) men’s skeet world rankings, while top Taiwanese shooters won golds in each of yesterday’s finals in Taoyuan.
Lee’s 6,610 points put him ahead of fellow men’s skeet medalists from the Paris Olympics Americans Vincent Hancock and Conner Prince.
Lee on Monday said that he was surprised by the result, although he had expected his ranking to rise after the Games, which was also the first time a Taiwanese athlete had competed in men’s skeet.
Photo: Reuters
Despite topping the rankings, Lee said he believed Hancock, who won gold in Paris, was likely still the stronger athlete.
“I’m No. 1 probably because I participated in more international tournaments this year and finished with good results,” he said.
Lee finished first at the Asian Championships in Kuwait in January and fifth at the World Cup in Baku, Azerbaijan, in May.
Photo: CNA
The son of international-level sharpshooter Hsieh Chih-pei, Lee first represented Taiwan at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, when he was 15.
Lee is this week competing at the Taipei International Grand Prix Rifle at the National Shooting Training Base Gongxi Shooting Range in Taoyuan, which started on Saturday last week and ends on Monday next week.
The event — the first-ever top-tier ISSF Grand Prix tournament held in Taiwan — features 140 athletes from 10 countries competing for multiple titles.
All eight Taiwanese Olympians from Paris are competing at the tournament, including Wu Chia-ying, who won gold in the women’s 10m air pistol event on Monday.
Yesterday, Paris Olympian Yang Kun-pi won the men’s trap with 45 points, beating out Italy’s Massimo Fabbrizi, who had 43 points.
In women’s trap, Paris Olympian Liu Wan-yu edged Australia’s Kiara Sioux-lin Dean for the gold, while fellow Olympian Lin Yi-chun took bronze.
Liu and Dean were tied with 40 at the end of the final, forcing a shoot-out.
In the 10m air pistol mixed team event, 17-year-old Cheng yen-ching and partner Chang Lu beat Singapore’s Shirlene Hew Yun Ting and Jia En Teo for the gold medal, while Sung Yu-ting and her brother Sung Chia-yen defeated Singapore’s Hong An Tong and Irna Qistina Binte Noorazlin to win the gold medal in the 10m air rifle mixed team event.
Boston Red Sox pitcher Connelly Early on Tuesday struck out 11 in five shutout innings to match a franchise record during his MLB debut against the Oakland Athletics. “Pretty sick performance,” teammate Romy Gonzalez said. “It was fun to watch.” The only other Red Sox starter to rack up 11 strikeouts in his first career game was Don Aase versus the Milwaukee Brewers on July 26, 1977. “It was amazing, just to go out there and have that first opportunity,” Early said after getting the win in a 6-0 victory. “A long day of travel yesterday and just getting to the field, seeing
ELEVEN STRIKEOUTS: Blake Snell allowed two singles and two walks against the Rockies as he ended a personal three-game skid with his first win since Aug. 16 Blake Snell on Wednesday struck out a season-high 11 in six innings, while Mookie Betts hit a grand slam in the eighth as the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Colorado Rockies 9-0 for their fourth straight win. Helped by their third series sweep of the Rockies this MLB season, the Dodgers increased their National League West lead to three games over the San Diego Padres, who lost 2-1 at home to the Cincinnati Reds. Betts went four for five with five RBIs, capped by his seventh career slam on a 3-0 pitch from reliever Anthony Molina to make it 8-0. Andy Pages and
‘DEVASTATED’: Argentina’s win was a reversal of their 28-24 defeat last week, with Australian forward Fraser McReight adding that ‘we did the same thing last week’ Argentina flyhalf Santiago Carreras punished an undisciplined Australia with 23 points off the tee as the Pumas held on grimly for a 28-26 win in Sydney yesterday to breathe new life into their Rugby Championship campaign. A try-fest beckoned in afternoon sunshine at Sydney Football Stadium, but Argentina needed only one through captain Julian Montoya, with Carreras doing the damage with seven penalties and a conversion in front of a sell-out crowd. A week after letting a 14-point lead slip in a 28-24 defeat to Australia in Townsville, Argentina saw most of a 21-point advantage erased in the final quarter as the
China’s state-run People’s Daily newspaper on Monday published an essay about Chinese basketball it said was written by LeBron James, but a representative for the NBA star said on Thursday that the article was based on a series of interviews. The paper, better known as the mouthpiece of the Chinese Communist Party, had said James authored the essay, “Basketball is a Bridge that Connects Us,” a tribute to Chinese players and fans of the sport written in the first person. “LeBron James Pens an Article in the People’s Daily,” read a post published on the newspaper’s official WeChat account. On Thursday, a representative
RSS