China’s 8 shooting gold medals in a day

INCHEON, Sept 25 (AFP): China swept eight of the 10 gold medals fought for in the Asian Games shooting Thursday, breaking one world record even as revised rules handed them and South Korea new world marks.
Zhao Shengbo, Lan Xing and Liu Gang shot a combined score of 1,876 in the men's 50m rifle prone, surpassing the previous record of 1,873.6 by the French team of Cyril Graff, Michael Halluin and Valerian Sauveplane at the European championships in Croatia last year.
The win helped China avenge their loss to South Korea in the same event at the previous Asiad in Guangzhou four years ago. The Koreans won the silver with 1,869 points and Kazakhstan retained the bronze with 1,859.
Zhao then triumphed in the individual eight-man final that featured the entire Chinese and Korean team, but it was Muhammad Nasir Khan of Malaysia who stole the show with a silver.
Khan ended just 0.5 points behind Zhao's score of 198.6 in a keenly-fought last round. Park Bong-Duk of South Korea claimed the bronze.
Khan said he was delighted to win his first medal in an international event.
"With such good shooters around, one can only hope for the best and that is what happened today," he said. "I am on a high like never before. Maybe this is just the start I need to boost my career."
South Korea's Kim Mi-Jin found herself in the list of world record holders after winning the women's double trap with 110 points, two more than second-placed Zhang Yafei of China.
The record came automatically to Kim under new rules set by the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) which require more than 15 competitors from at least five countries to make it a world-level event.