Vinh wins Vietnam's first gold medal in shooting

[jhungary]

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Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - Hoang Xuan Vinh won Vietnam's first Olympic gold medal with his last shot to deny Rio Games hosts Brazil an opening day title on Saturday.

Vinh, 41, fell into the arms of his coaches after his near-perfect final shot in the men's 10m air pistol.

He duelled with Sao Paulo-born Felipe Almeida Wu who had taken the lead after the penultimate shot.

The Vietnamese military man claimed the title with a total points haul of 202.5. Crowd favourite Wu, almost 20 years his junior, took silver only .3 adrift.

Bronze went to Pang Wei while South Korean defending champion Jin Jongoh trailed in fifth.

Jin had his head in his hands walking off after failing to replicate his heroics at London 2012.

He also won 50m pistol gold four years ago and will be hoping to turn around his form when he defends that title later in the competition.

The first of the eight finalists to be knocked out was the Nepalese-born Indian Jitu Rai.

Russia's representative Vladimir Gontcharov was next for the chop, followed by Italy's Giuseppe Giordano, Jin, and Juray Tuzinsky.

That left the stage clear for the three-cornered climax. Pang's exit setting up a tense face off between the two military men.

Wu had his partisan fans leaping out of their seats when he hit the front, but Vinh fired his 20th and final shot true and straight to nail it in the style of a worthy successor to Jin.

@Viet @Carlosa @BoQ77

Can't believe Vinh beats Pang Wei for the gold medal lol. Guess this is not a good opening for chinese, got 2 gold stolen in the first day...

 

[Carlosa]

https://au.sports.yahoo.com/rio-2016/a/32258372/vietnams-hoang-wins-10m-air-pistol-gold-in-rio/

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - Hoang Xuan Vinh won Vietnam's first Olympic gold medal with his last shot to deny Rio Games hosts Brazil an opening day title on Saturday.

Vinh, 41, fell into the arms of his coaches after his near-perfect final shot in the men's 10m air pistol.

He duelled with Sao Paulo-born Felipe Almeida Wu who had taken the lead after the penultimate shot.

The Vietnamese military man claimed the title with a total points haul of 202.5. Crowd favourite Wu, almost 20 years his junior, took silver only .3 adrift.

Bronze went to Pang Wei while South Korean defending champion Jin Jongoh trailed in fifth.

Jin had his head in his hands walking off after failing to replicate his heroics at London 2012.

He also won 50m pistol gold four years ago and will be hoping to turn around his form when he defends that title later in the competition.

The first of the eight finalists to be knocked out was the Nepalese-born Indian Jitu Rai.

Russia's representative Vladimir Gontcharov was next for the chop, followed by Italy's Giuseppe Giordano, Jin, and Juray Tuzinsky.

That left the stage clear for the three-cornered climax. Pang's exit setting up a tense face off between the two military men.

Wu had his partisan fans leaping out of their seats when he hit the front, but Vinh fired his 20th and final shot true and straight to nail it in the style of a worthy successor to Jin.

@Viet @Carlosa @BoQ77

Can't believe Vinh beats Pang Wei for the gold medal lol. Guess this is not a good opening for chinese, got 2 gold stolen in the first day...

That's life. In Sports is one on one, the better one wins.

 

[911]

Eh wrong thread. That shooter came up at last moment, it was epic. Not easy to play under pressure.

 

[JanjaWeed]

Top shout. That guy had to overcome home favorite & boos from the crowd to win gold. His last shot was outstanding..came from behind to shoot an impressive 10.7 & take gold!

 

[BoQ77]

The stability of Felipe Almeida is better, but the last shoot of Vinh X Hoang is perfect.
Congratulation !!!
US and Vietnam get 2 first gold medals of Rio 2016

 

[BoQ77]

Even Vietnam comments think this unbelievable.

 

[jhungary]

I have not watch the game (Stupid Australia channel only cover aussie team...).......but as far as I know he fought really hard and his win was quite heroic.

 

[Carlosa]

Shooter Hoang Xuan Vinh, Vietnam’s first Olympic gold medalist, is actually short-sighted
A serviceman and athlete ended Vietnam’s six-decade wait for the first Olympic gold medal on Saturday after acing the ten-meter air pistol event final at the 2016 Olympics in Brazil, despite his myopia and heart failure condition.

Hoang Xuan Vinh was born in 1974 in the small town of Son Tay in former Ha Tay Province (now Hanoi) in northern Vietnam.

Vinh took up professional pistol shooting in 1999 at the age of 25 after making a name for himself in his military unit thanks to his refined marksmanship.

Seventeen years later, the now military brigadier has just made history for himself and Vietnam in Rio, winning the country’s long-awaited first Olympic gold medal since their debut at the sporting event in 1952.

Stories of amateur-turned-professional athletes are not rare in Vietnam, but few have shot to fame in such a short time as Vinh did, despite the circumstances he faces.

In 2000, one year after taking up professional shooting, Vinh bagged his first national gold medal and broke the national record at the same time.

A year later, Vinh earned his first gold at the biyearly Southeast Asian Games, signaling his unchallenged 15-year reign in the regional sporting event.

At the age of 38, the Vietnamese athlete topped the ten-meter air pistol event at the 2012 Asian Air Gun Championships in Nanchang, China, a result that earned him his first ticket to the Olympics held later the same year in London.

In 2014, Vinh broke the world’s record and snatched a gold medal at the ISSF Rifle and Pistol World Cup in the U.S., before going on to bring home his and Vietnam’s first-ever Olympic gold two years later in Rio.

How the steel was tempered

Vinh’s historic win is special in a number of different ways, the first being that the military man has previously been known for cracking under immense pressure at critical times.

At the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, in 2016, Vinh was leading the other athletes by four points in the rapid fire pistol category by the last round of shooting, but he missed his final shot and ended up being ranked 13th.

At the 2012 London Olympics, Vinh’s underperformance in the finals despite flying-colors qualifying results earned him only the modest 4th place.

In Saturday’s last shooting round, however, the audience saw a colder and more stable performance by the Vietnamese shooter, as he landed a near-perfect shot to outlast Brazil’s Felipe Wu after being led closely by the Brazilian Olympian.

It may come as an even more surprise to some to learn that the new Olympics champion is actually short-sighted and has a heart failure condition that affects the stability of his performances.

Vinh said he would have other members of his team cheer loudly as he practices target-shooting in order to train his concentration.

The Olympics champion disclosed that he still had to shout aloud the line, “I’m an Olympic medalist” at the start of each of his practice sessions for pressure relief.

The brigadier is happily married with two kids, though Vinh said he spends more time on the training fields than at home, a price one must pay as a world-class athlete.

 

[BoQ77]

He is a militant, exactly veterant @jhungary
And he fought well, a new Olympic record after a near perfect final shot

 

[jhungary]

He is a militant, exactly veterant @jhungary
And he fought well, a new Olympic record after a near perfect final shot

Well, I have a similar story I know of in my military days, I have a guy who was qualified for Team US shooting event in 2004 Athens Olympics (I forgot if that is 10 or 50 meters rifle) and he was in the army reserve just got called up to replace some of my men who were wounded in Iraq who was taken off the line.

I don't really remember his name (I tend not to know the replacement) just knew his back story as much told by the company first sergeant. But I do remember saying this

"War is much like in the Olympic, it's a game, and you don't want to be second best, cause you don't get medal for being second best in war, you will end up in a body bag."

Well, sad to say a grenade blown off half his arms and I don't know much about him after he was taken off the line....

 

[BoQ77]

Vinh won this silver medal by a gun rented at the last day before the game, mean not much practice on it. His package left in Vietnam airport by accident.
ISSF 2015 in Germany

A World record and a gold medal

 

[Srinivas]

Congratulations and All the Best!

https://au.sports.yahoo.com/rio-2016/a/32258372/vietnams-hoang-wins-10m-air-pistol-gold-in-rio/

Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - Hoang Xuan Vinh won Vietnam's first Olympic gold medal with his last shot to deny Rio Games hosts Brazil an opening day title on Saturday.

Vinh, 41, fell into the arms of his coaches after his near-perfect final shot in the men's 10m air pistol.

He duelled with Sao Paulo-born Felipe Almeida Wu who had taken the lead after the penultimate shot.

The Vietnamese military man claimed the title with a total points haul of 202.5. Crowd favourite Wu, almost 20 years his junior, took silver only .3 adrift.

Bronze went to Pang Wei while South Korean defending champion Jin Jongoh trailed in fifth.

Jin had his head in his hands walking off after failing to replicate his heroics at London 2012.

He also won 50m pistol gold four years ago and will be hoping to turn around his form when he defends that title later in the competition.

The first of the eight finalists to be knocked out was the Nepalese-born Indian Jitu Rai.

Russia's representative Vladimir Gontcharov was next for the chop, followed by Italy's Giuseppe Giordano, Jin, and Juray Tuzinsky.

That left the stage clear for the three-cornered climax. Pang's exit setting up a tense face off between the two military men.

Wu had his partisan fans leaping out of their seats when he hit the front, but Vinh fired his 20th and final shot true and straight to nail it in the style of a worthy successor to Jin.

@Viet @Carlosa @BoQ77

Can't believe Vinh beats Pang Wei for the gold medal lol. Guess this is not a good opening for chinese, got 2 gold stolen in the first day...