Cai Yalin (

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: 蔡亚林;

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: Cài Yàlín; born September 3, 1977 in

Chengde Chengde, formerly known as Jehol and Rehe, is a prefecture-level city in Hebei province, situated about 225 km northeast of Beijing. It is best known as the site of the Mountain Resort, a vast imperial garden and palace formerly used by t ...

Hebei Hebei or , (; alternately Hopeh) is a northern province of China. Hebei is China's sixth most populous province, with over 75 million people. Shijiazhuang is the capital city. The province is 96% Han Chinese, 3% Manchu, 0.8% Hui, an ...

) is a male

sports shooter Shooting sports is a group of competitive and recreational sporting activities involving proficiency tests of accuracy, precision and speed in shooting — the art of using ranged weapons, mainly small arms (firearms and airguns, in forms such as ...

. He won the 10 m air rifle at the

2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 ...

, in the process beating the

Olympic record Olympic records are the best performances in a specific event in that event's history in either the Summer Olympic Games or the Winter Olympic Games, including: * Archery (list) * Alpine skiing (records recognized only by FIS) * Athletics (list) ...

of 695.7pts with 696.4pts.

Major performances

* 1997 National Games – 3rd * 1998 World Championships – 7th * 1998 Bangkok Asian Games – 1st 10 m air rifle individual, 2nd 10 m air rifle team * 1998 National Shooting Series – 1st (NR) * 1998 World Championships – 7th * 2000 Sydney Olympic Games – 1st 10 m air rifle (696.4pts, OR) * 2002 Pusan Asian Games – 1st 10 m air rifle team (1788pts, WR) & 50 m free rifle team (3472pts, AR)

References

* http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/olympics/2007-07/30/content_6003745.htm

External links

* 1977 births Living people ISSF rifle shooters Olympic shooters for China Chinese male sport shooters Shooters at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for China Olympic medalists in shooting Asian Games medalists in shooting Sport shooters from Hebei People from Chengde Shooters at the 1998 Asian Games Shooters at the 2002 Asian Games Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Asian Games gold medalists for China Asian Games silver medalists for China Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games 20th-century Chinese people {{PRChina-sportshooting-bio-stub