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Shooting’s first Youth Olympic Games’ Gold medal went to the 17-year old Chinese athlete Gao.





Gao Ting Jie of China won the first Youth Olympic Gold awarded to the shooting sport, claiming the brightest medal at the 10m Air Rifle Junior Men event with a total score of 694.9 (594+100.9) points.

"I cannot wait to celebrate this medal with my family! I don’t see them since five months, as I have been training and preparing for this match!" said the 17-year old Chinese shooter, who won a nailbiting match in spite of missing on his first shot.

"The Youth Olympic Games is an exciting formula. It’s a great chance for our young athletes, and a great show for the youth of the world." Gao’s coach, the 1992 and 2004 Olympic Champion Wang Yifu said after the match.

"I am just sorry that they invented the Youth Olympic Games only now - continued the 49-year old Wang smiling - I would definitely win the Youth title, if the YOG were existing in my days!"

The neck and neck race for the Gold between Chiana’s Gao, Belarus’ Charheika and Ukraine’s Kulish, kept the spectators’ breath right to the last shot, when... Read More

Next medals coming soon - 10m Air Rifle Women event
Time for training, at the Singapore Sports School, the YOG shooting venue, where the 10m Air Pistol Women event (the second shooting competition of the inaugural Youth Olympic Games) will take place tomorrow, August the 23rd, at 12.00 AM. The favourites... Read More

Check Results of the Competitions
The results of the competitions will be posted on the Singapore’s Youth Olympic Games results page. Check the results of the Shooting events on-line on the Singapore 2010 website

ISSF wrote:Shooting’s first Youth Olympic Games’ Gold medal went to the 17-year old Chinese athlete Gao.

"I cannot wait to celebrate this medal with my family! I don’t see them since five months, as I have been training and preparing for this match!" said the 17-year old Chinese shooter, who won a nailbiting match in spite of missing on his first shot.

It is actually was not allowed to see family for 5 months. If done in any other country it would be called child abuse.

Actually there are probably kids in the US and other countries that attend private schools that don't see their parents for 4-5 months or more. The top Chinese shooters go to sport schools, which are like private schools where they live, get educated and work on their sport. In most cases it's far from child abuse.