Gao E

Gao E medal table
Sport shooting
People's Republic of China
Olympic games
bronze	Sydney 2000	Trap
bronze	Athens 2004	Double trap
World championships
bronze	Caracas 1982	Trap (M)
bronze	Edmonton 1983	Trap (M)
gold	Montecatini Terme 1985	Trap (M)
gold	Suhl 1986	Trap
silver	Suhl 1986	Trap (M)
silver	Valencia 1987	Trap
gold	Valencia 1987	Trap (M)
bronze	Montecatini Terme 1989	Trap (M)
bronze	Barcelona 1993	Trap
gold	Barcelona 1993	Trap (M)
bronze	Barcelona 1993	Double trap (M)
bronze	Fagnano 1994	Double trap (M)
gold	Barcelona 1998	Trap (M)
silver	Barcelona 1998	Double trap (M)
gold	Tampere 1999	Trap (M)
gold	Tampere 1999	Double trap (M)
bronze	Cairo 2001	Trap
silver	Cairo 2001	Trap (M)
bronze	Lahti 2002	Trap (M)
silver	Nicosia 2003	Trap (M)
bronze	Lonato 2005	Trap (M)
gold	Zagreb 2006	Trap (M)
silver	Nicosia 2007	Trap (M)
silver	Munich 2010	Trap (M)
bronze	Belgrade 2011	Trap (M)
Asian Games
silver	Hiroshima 1994	Double trap
gold	Bangkok 1998	Double trap
gold	Bangkok 1998	Double trap (M)
gold	Busan 2002	Trap
silver	Busan 2002	Trap (M)
silver	Guangzhou 2010	Trap
gold	Guangzhou 2010	Trap (M)

Gao E ( Chinese  高 娥 , Pinyin Gāo É ; born November 7, 1962 in Shenyang ) is a former Chinese sports shooter . She competed in the Trap and Double Trap disciplines .

successes

Gao E participated in four Olympic Games . In 1988 she did not get past 40th place in a trap in Seoul . In 1996 she started in a double trap and scored 103 points, after which she had to jump off for the last free place for the final. In the duel with three competitors she was left behind when she was eliminated as the second shooter and thus finished eighth overall. At the Olympic Games in Sydney in 2000 , she again missed the final in a double trap in ninth place, while in the trap she achieved this success as the second best shooter with 68 points. With 22 more hits in the final round, she finished the competition with 90 total points on the bronze rank behind Daina Gudzinevičiūtė and Delphine Racinet . Four years later she reached 17th place in the trap in Athens . In a double trap she made it into the final for the first time, with 107 points she finished fifth in the qualification. Thanks to 35 goals in the final, like Li Qingnian , she had 142 total points, so that a play-off between the two decided to win the bronze medal behind Kim Rhode and Lee Bo-na . While Li missed the second goal, Gao scored, securing her second Olympic bronze medal.

At world championships , Gao E won a total of 25 medals between 1982 and 2011, 17 of them with the Trap team. She became world champion eight times: in 1985 she won her first title with the Trap team in Montecatini Terme and repeated this success two years later in Valencia . In between, she won the Trap singles title in Suhl in 1986 . In 1993 and 1998 she was again world champion with the Trap team in Barcelona , also in 1999 in Tampere . In 1999 she also secured the gold medal in the double trap. She won her eighth world title again with the Trap team in 2006 in Zagreb . At the continental level, Gao E was also very successful: in the trap she won the Asian singles champion in 2004 in Bangkok and in 2009 in Almaty , in the double trap she had already succeeded in 1993 in Manila . In addition, she took second place twice in both disciplines. At the Asian Games she won the silver medal in Hiroshima in 1994 in a double trap, before winning the gold medal in Bangkok in 1998 . In addition, she had also remained victorious in the team competition in double trap. In 2002 she won the individual competition in the trap in Busan , and came second with the team. She repeated this result in Guangzhou in 2010 with the reverse medal success , i.e. silver in the individual and gold with the team.

Gao E is married with one child.

Web links

• Gao E in the database of the International Shooting Sport Federation (English)
• Gao E in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Gao E. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 3, 2019 . 
2. ^ Shooting at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games: Women's Trap Final Round. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 3, 2019 . 
3. ^ Shooting at the 2004 Athina Summer Games: Women's Double Trap Final Round. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 3, 2019 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b c d} E GAO. In: issf-sports.org. International Shooting Sport Federation , accessed November 3, 2019 . 

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Gao is the family name here, E is the first name.