Yang Ling

Yang Ling medal table
Sport shooting
People's Republic of China
Olympic games
gold	Atlanta 1996	Running target 10 m
gold	Sydney 2000	Running target 10 m
World championships
silver	Barcelona 1998	Running target, mix (M)
silver	Lahti 2002	Running target 10 m
bronze	Lahti 2002	Running target 10 m (M)
silver	Lahti 2002	Running target, mix (M)
gold	Zagreb 2006	Running target, mix (M)
silver	Munich 2010	Running boar, according to Run (M)
gold	Munich 2010	Running target, mix (M)
Asian Games
bronze	Busan 2002	Running target 10 m
gold	Busan 2002	Running target 10 m (M)
gold	Guangzhou 2010	Running target 10 m (M)
silver	Guangzhou 2010	Running target, mix (M)

Yang Ling ( Chinese  楊淩 , Pinyin Yáng Líng ; born May 24, 1972 in Beijing ) is a former Chinese sports shooter .

successes

Yang Ling took part in two Olympic Games in the 10-meter running target competition. At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta , he set a new Olympic record in qualifying with 585 points and moved into the final with a four-point lead over second-placed Dmitri Lykin . In this he scored 100.8 points, which was the second best performance of the round; only his compatriot Xiao Jun scored a better result with 102.8 points. Xiao moved up to second place, but could not catch up with Yang, who thus became Olympic champion . Bronze went to Miroslav Januš . Four years later in Sydney , Yang finished the qualification again in first place. With 581 points, he was one point ahead of Oleg Moldovan and three points ahead of Niu Zhiyuan . As in 1996, Yang was the second best shooter in the final, scoring 100.1 points. Oleg Moldovan got 101.0 points, but did not fully make up the one point deficit and remained 0.1 points behind Yang, who won the gold medal for the second time in a row. Niu Zhiyuan claimed third place from qualifying and took bronze.

In 1998 Yang was runner- up in the team competition in the discipline running disc mix in Barcelona . Also in 2002 in Lahti he finished second with the team in this competition, while he was third in the normal run with the team. Yang finished the individual competition on the current target in second place behind Dmitri Lykin. Four years later he became world champion for the first time in Zagreb when he had remained victorious in the mix with the team that also included Lin Gan and Niu Zhiyuan. In 2010 in Munich he repeated this success with another title win, this time with Zeng Guobin and Zhai Yujia . In the mixed run on the running boar, he and the team took second place. Yang Ling was also very successful at the continental level: in 2000 in Pulau Langkawi he was Asian champion and in 2004 in Kuala Lumpur he was vice- Asian champion in the individual on the current disc. At the Asian Games in Busan in 2002 he won the bronze medal behind Niu Zhiyuan and Her Dae-kyung in the individual competition on the running target , while he won the title with the team. Together with Niu Zhiyuan and Zeng Guobin, he secured the gold medal ahead of the South Korean and Kazakh teams. In 2010 in Guangzhou he was together with Gan Lin and Zhai Yujia again Asian game winner in the team competition of the normal run. In the mix competition, he finished second behind the North Korean team with Gan and Zhai.

Yang Ling is married.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Yang Ling. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 13, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Shooting at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games: Men's Running Target, 10 Meters Preliminary Round. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 13, 2019 . 
3. ^ Shooting at the 1996 Atlanta Summer Games: Men's Running Target, 10 meters Final Round. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 13, 2019 . 
4. ↑ Shooting at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games: Men's Running Target, 10 meters Preliminary Round. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 13, 2019 . 
5. ↑ Shooting at the 2000 Sydney Summer Games: Men's Running Target, 10 meters Final Round. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved November 13, 2019 . 
6. ↑ ^{a b c d} Ling YANG. In: issf-sports.org. International Shooting Sport Federation , accessed November 13, 2019 . 

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