Taiwanese sharpshooter Liu Wan-yu on Tuesday won gold in the women’s trap event at the Asian Shotgun Championship in Qatar.
She later claimed the silver medal with Olympian Lin I-chun and 22-year-old Yeh Mei-hsuan in the women’s team trap event.
More than 200 shooters from 17 countries competed in the tournament in Doha, with Taiwan fielding 13 shooters across professional and junior divisions.
Photo courtesy of coach Chang Chien-ming via CNA
In the team event, Liu, Lin and Yeh scored 316 points to earn the silver medal behind Kazakhstan, who scored 325 points.
Later in the individual trap competition, Liu, who ranked seventh in the preliminary round, advanced to the final and won gold after edging Kazakhstan’s Eleonora Ibragimova.
Liu said her preliminary-round performance was inconsistent, but she adjusted her stance during the competition and regained her rhythm to reach the final.
Photo courtesy of coach Chang Chien-ming via CNA
While the competitors at this year’s championship were still adapting to the new final-round format, Liu was able to calm her nerves after talking with her coach, she said.
She joked that her victory was just keeping alive a streak of Taiwanese athletes winning events early in the year.
“At the beginning of this year, Lin Yun-ju in table tennis and Lin Chun-yi in badminton won titles, so I felt us shooters could not lose and break the streak,” she said.
Liu is hoping to maintain her form throughout the rest of the year and peak at this year’s Asian Games in Japan, which is to run from Sept. 19 to Oct. 4.
Veteran shooter Lin I-chun praised her teammates’ performance in the team competition, while noting that she was still recovering from a leg injury and vowed to perform better in upcoming tournaments.
In the men’s skeet event, Taiwan’s Yang Kun-pi advanced to the final ranked third, but ultimately finished fourth, narrowly missing out on a medal.
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