Wei Ning
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Wei Ning is a female Chinese sports shooter
. She competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics
where she won the silver medal in the women's skeet competition. In the 2008 Olympics in Beijing she reached the final of the six best but could not win a medal.
Wei Ning is one of the outstanding Skeet shots in the World. She won the World Championships in 2003 and won the silver medal in 2007 and 2010. She won the World Cup Final three times in 2001, 2002 and 2004. Wei won six World Cups and finished on the podium eight more times, most recently at the World Cup in Concepcion Chile in March 2011.
Having won in 2010 in Guangzhou, Wei Ning is the currently reigning Asian Games champion. She already won the silver medal at the Asian Games in 2006.
It is her trademark that she usually wears white golf gloves in competitions.
Shooting sports
A shooting sport is a competitive sport involving tests of proficiency using various types of guns such as firearms and airguns . Hunting is also a shooting sport, and indeed shooting live pigeons was an Olympic event...
. She competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics
2004 Summer Olympics
The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece from August 13 to August 29, 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team...
where she won the silver medal in the women's skeet competition. In the 2008 Olympics in Beijing she reached the final of the six best but could not win a medal.
Wei Ning is one of the outstanding Skeet shots in the World. She won the World Championships in 2003 and won the silver medal in 2007 and 2010. She won the World Cup Final three times in 2001, 2002 and 2004. Wei won six World Cups and finished on the podium eight more times, most recently at the World Cup in Concepcion Chile in March 2011.
Having won in 2010 in Guangzhou, Wei Ning is the currently reigning Asian Games champion. She already won the silver medal at the Asian Games in 2006.
It is her trademark that she usually wears white golf gloves in competitions.
| Current world records held in skeet Olympic Skeet Skeet is a variant of skeet shooting, and the specific variant used in the Olympic Games. Two throwing machines at different heights launch a series of 25 targets in a specific order, some as singles and some as doubles, with the shooter having a fixed position between them. Men's competitions... |
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