Lin Yi-chun

Lin Yi-chun
Personal information
Full name Lin Yi-chun
Nickname(s) Kitty[1]
Nationality  Chinese Taipei
Born (1981-07-05) 5 July 1981
Taoyuan (now Taoyuan District, Taoyuan City), Taiwan
Height 1.61 m (5 ft 3 12 in)
Weight 70 kg (154 lb)
Sport
Sport Shooting
Event(s) Trap (TR75)
Double trap (DT120)
Coached by Tsai Hsi Cheng[1]
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Lin.

Lin Yi-chun (Chinese: 林 怡君; pinyin: Lín Yíjūn; born July 5, 1981 in Taoyuan (now Taoyuan District, Taoyuan City)) is a Taiwanese sport shooter.[1][2] She won two medals, gold and silver, in the women's double trap, at the 2001 and 2002 ISSF World Shooting Championships in Cairo, Egypt and Lahti, Finland, respectively.[3] She also captured a bronze medal in the women's trap at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar, accumulating a score of 80 clay pigeons and a bonus of 1 target from a shoot-off.[4]

Representing Chinese Taipei, Lin made her official debut at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she competed in the women's double trap only. She scored a total of 134 targets (100 in the preliminary rounds and 34 in the final), and a bonus of 14 from a shoot-off (against Canada's Cynthia Meyer). She finished in fourth place, narrowly missing out on the medal by five points behind defending Olympic champion Kim Rhode.[5][3] At the 2004 Summer Olympics, Lin placed eighth in the qualifying rounds of the women's double trap, one point behind Australia's Susan Trindall after the final attempt, accumulating a score of 106 targets.[6]

Eight years after competing in her last Olympics, Lin qualified for her third Chinese Taipei team, as a 31-year-old, at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, by placing third in the women's trap at the 2011 ISSF World Cup series in Beijing, China.[7] She scored a total of 68 clay pigeons in the qualifying rounds of the women's trap, one point ahead of U.S. shooter and Beijing bronze medalist Corey Cogdell. She finished in tenth place.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Lin Yi-chun". London 2012. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
  2. "Lin Yi-chun". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
  3. 1 2 "ISSF Profile – Lin Yi-chun". ISSF. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
  4. "Asian Games: China dominates shooting, Taiwan bags bronze in trap". Taipei Times. 3 December 2006. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
  5. "Sydney 2000: Women's Double Trap" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. pp. 94–95. Retrieved 6 February 2013.
  6. "Shooting: double trap (120 targets) – Qualification Round". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
  7. "ISSF World Cup Beijing: Heiden Shines for the Silver". USA Shooting. 26 April 2011. Retrieved 10 February 2013.
  8. "Women's Trap Qualification". London 2012. Retrieved 10 February 2013.

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