Yang Haoran (; born 22 February 1996) is a Chinese

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. He has collected a career tally of fourteen medals (nine golds and five silver) and broke eight world junior records in air rifle shooting at major international competitions, spanning the Youth Olympics, Asian Games, World Championships, and World Cup series. Having pursued the sport since age 12, Yang trained full-time as a member of the Chinese shooting team, at the sports academy in

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, under his personal coach and 2000 Olympic champion Cai Yalin. Yang took part in his first international competition as a 17-year-old at the 2013 ISSF World Cup final meet in

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, where he claimed the gold medal in the 10 m air rifle, finishing in first with 205.9 points, ahead of World Champion Niccolo Campriani. When

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hosted the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in

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, Yang maintained a comfortable lead over the rest of the field to win the gold medal for his team in the boys' 10 m air rifle with a record of 209.3. Less than a month later, Yang captured his first ever title at the

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, setting a new junior world record of 632.1 points. Yang's win vaulted him to the top of the world rankings and also granted him one of the six Olympic quota places for Rio 2016. On his senior debut at the

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, Yang added another individual gold to his career tally by leading the medal haul for China in the 10 m air rifle with a score of 209.6 points. Yang's win also helped his fellow shooters

Cao Yifei Cao Yifei (born May 20, 1988 in Jiaozuo, Henan) is a male Chinese sports shooter Shooting sports is a group of competitive and recreational sporting activities involving proficiency tests of accuracy, precision and speed in shooting — the ...

and Liu Tianyou deliver a first-place finish over the rest of the field in the

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event, finishing with an aggregated tally of 1886.4.

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Nanjing 2014 Profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Yang, Haoran 1996 births Living people Chinese male sport shooters Shooters at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics Shooters at the 2014 Asian Games Shooters at the 2018 Asian Games Asian Games medalists in shooting People from Chengde Sport shooters from Hebei ISSF rifle shooters Shooters at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic shooters for China Asian Games gold medalists for China Asian Games silver medalists for China Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games Universiade medalists in shooting FISU World University Games gold medalists for China Universiade silver medalists for China Universiade bronze medalists for China Youth Olympic gold medalists for China Medalists at the 2015 Summer Universiade Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in shooting Shooters at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for China Olympic bronze medalists for China

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