Qiu Jian (; born June 25, 1975, in

Huai'an Huai'an (), formerly called Huaiyin () until 2001, is a prefecture-level city in the central part of Jiangsu province in Eastern China. Huai'an is situated almost directly south of Lianyungang, southeast of Suqian, northwest of Yancheng, almos ...

Jiangsu Jiangsu (; ; pinyin: Jiāngsū, Postal romanization, alternatively romanized as Kiangsu or Chiangsu) is an Eastern China, eastern coastal Provinces of the People's Republic of China, province of the China, People's Republic of China. It is o ...

) is a male

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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 ...

who competed for Team China at the

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Major performances

*2000/2003 National Championships - 1st 3x40/air rifle 60; *2001 World Cup Final - 1st air rifle 60; *2002 Asian Games - 1st 3x40; *2006 National Champions Tournament - 1st 3x40

Records

*1999 National Team Championships - 1770, air rifle (NR); *2000 National Team Championships - 1771, air rifle (NR); *2003 National Team Championships - 3499, 3x40 (NR);

References

1975 births Living people Chinese male sport shooters ISSF rifle shooters Olympic gold medalists for China Olympic shooters for China Sportspeople from Huai'an Shooters at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in shooting Sport shooters from Jiangsu Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Asian Games medalists in shooting Shooters at the 2002 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for China Asian Games silver medalists for China Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games 21st-century Chinese people {{PRChina-sportshooting-bio-stub