Asian Games: Sensational Yang Haoran Shows his Class
Yang, the 18-year-old world champion, confirmed his status as a shooting sensation by winning the showpiece event with 209.6 points after leading China to the team gold.
Teenager Yang Haoran led China's sweep of the men's 10m air rifle event at the Asian Games on Tuesday as India's Abhinav Bindra ended his full-time shooting career with two bronze medals. (Asian Games Day 4 Live Blog | Tally | Schedule)
Yang, the 18-year-old world champion, confirmed his status as a shooting sensation by winning the showpiece event with 209.6 points after leading China to the team gold. (Saurav Ghosal settles for Squash gold)
Team-mate Cao Yifei picked up the silver with 208.9, conceding the lead to Yang in the last two shots of a well-contested eight-man final. (Korean Judoka wins despite dislocated shoulder)
Bindra, India's only individual Olympic gold medallist in any sport, finished with 187.1 points in his final competition as a professional shooter.
Yang, Cao and Liu Tianyou narrowly missed creating a new world record in the team event by 0.1 points as they left the rest of the field behind with a dominant show.
The Chinese trio, who hold the record of 1886.5 points set at the world championships in Spain this month where Yang was individual champion, finished with a combined tally of 1886.4.
South Korea finished second with 1867.6 points through Kim Sang-do, Kim Hyeonjun and Han Jin-Seop.
Bindra led team-mates Ravi Kumar and Sanjeev Rajput to a bronze medal for India with 1863.0 points.
The 31-year-old won the event at the 2008 Beijing Games to give India its first -- and so far only -- individual gold medal following eight field hockey titles.