Yang Haoran

Yang Haoran
Personal information
Full name Yang Haoran
Nationality  China
Born (1996-02-22) 22 February 1996
Chengde, Hebei, China
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 61 kg (134 lb)
Sport
Sport Shooting
Event(s) 10 m air rifle (AR60)
50 m rifle 3 positions (FR3X40)
Club Hebei Sports[1]
Coached by Cai Yalin[1]
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Yang.

Yang Haoran (Chinese: 杨浩然; pinyin: Yáng Hàorán; born February 22, 1996 in Chengde, Hebei) is a Chinese sport shooter.[2] He has collected a remarkable career tally of fourteen medals (nine golds and five silver) and held eight world junior records in air rifle shooting at a major international competition, spanning the Youth Olympics, Asian Games, World Championships, and World Cup series. Having pursued a sport since the age of 12, Yang trained full-time as a member of the shooting team at a sports academy in Chengde, under his personal coach and 2000 Olympic champion Cai Yilin.[1][2]

Yang took part in his first international competition as a 17-year-old at the 2013 ISSF World Cup final meet in Munich, Germany, where he outplayed the star-studded field, including the reigning World and Olympic champion Niccolo Campriani of Italy, to claim the gold medal in the 10 m air rifle, finishing in first with 205.9 points.[3]

When his nation China hosted the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, Yang maintained a distant, powerful lead over the rest of the field to deliver the much anticipated gold medal for his team in the boys' 10 m air rifle with a nearly scintillating record of 209.3.[4][5] Less than a month later, Yang continued to display his sheer dominance to the sport by capturing his first ever title at the World Championships in Granada, Spain, setting a new junior world record of 632.1 points. Yang's exceptional triumph in the meet vaulted him to the top of the world rankings and also granted him one of the six Olympic quota places for Rio 2016.[6][7]

On his senior debut at the Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea, 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 relentless triumph also helped his fellow shooters Cao Yifei and Liu Tianyou deliver a first-place finish over the rest of the field in the team event, finishing with an aggregated tally of 1886.4.[8][9]

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