LUOYANG, China, July 23 (Xinhua) -- Yu Xiaokai from the People's Liberation Army (PLA) lifted his second national shooting title after 12 years, winning the men's trap gold medal at the 13th Chinese National Games on Sunday in central China's Yiyang county.
Yu, 29, shot 44 targets for the victory, 12 years after his first trap gold medal at the 10th Chinese National Games in 2005 when he was only 17 and was regarded a shooting prodigy at that time.
Yu shot down 120 targets in the qualification round in third place.
"I think I should get this gold medal earlier to prove myself again. I have persisted in training for many years and it has not been easy for me," Yu said.
Liu Jie from Sichuan province got 43 targets to win a silver medal, and Zhang Pan, also from PLA, got bronze with 36 targets.
The 13th Chinese National Games will officially run from Aug. 27 to Sept. 8 in Tian Jin while trap and skeet shooting events were held in advance in Yiyang, a small county in central China's Henan province.
