Chinese shooter Zhu Qinan wins the gold for the men's 10m air rifle at the Olympic Games in Athens, August 16, 2004. (Xinhua photo)
Chinese shooter Li Jie wins the silver for the men's 10m air rifle at the Olympic Games in Athens, August 16, 2004. (Xinhua photo)
Chinese shooter Zhu Qinan £¨L£©wins the gold for the men's 10m air rifle in a new world record of 702.7 points at the Olympic Games in Athens, August 16, 2004. Chinese shooter Li jie (R)got the silver medal. (Xinhua photo)
Chinese shooter Zhu Qinan £¨C£©who won the gold for the men's 10m air rifle in a new world record of 702.7 points at the Olympic Games, and Li Jie(R), the event's silver medallist also from China, have a photo taken in Athens, August 16, 2004. (Xinhua photo)
Chinese shooter Zhu Qinan £¨L£©who won the gold for the men's 10m air rifle in a new world record of 702.7 points at the Olympic Games, and Li Jie(R), the event's silver medallist also from China, have a photo taken with their coach Chang Jingchun in Athens, August 16, 2004. (Xinhua photo)
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ATHENS, Aug. 16 (Xinhuanet) -- Chinese Zhu Qinan and Li Jie finished 1-2 in the men's 10m air rifle final with the winner breaking the world record at the Olympic shooting competition hereon Monday.
Zhu added 103.7 points in the final to 599 from his qualification round for a total of 702.7, 0.2 points over the previous world record set by American Jason Parker in the 2003 World Cup.
Li Jie scored 701.3 points for the silver and Slovakia's Jozef Gonci took the bronze in 697.4.
Parker finished eighth in 694.5 points.
It was China's third shooting gold since Du Li and Wang Yifu won gold on Saturday.
Zhu, 19, is from southeast China's Zhejiang province. Enditem
Chinese debutant Zhu wins Olympic men's 10m air rifle gold
¡¡ATHENS, Aug. 16 (Xinhuanet) -- Debutant Zhu Qinan of China shockedthe world as he came from nowhere to snatch the men's 10m air rifle gold at the Athens Olympics on Monday.
The 20-year-old Zhu, who is competing in his first Olympics, shot 103.7 points in the final to tally 702.7, the new world record. Compatriot Li Jie grabbed the silver on 701.3 points.
"I didn't know I broke the world record until you told me of it," Zhu told Xinhua in the mixed zone at the Markopoulo shooting range.
"I tried my best in the competition and shot to my normal form," he added.
World number one Jozef Gonci of the Czech Republic took the bronze on 697.4 points.
Zhu, who had only made two appearances in the international competition, was the top qualifier going the 10-shot final on 599 points, only one point shy of the world record for the qualification round. He maintained his lead throughout the final,with nine shots over 10 points. Enditem | 
