Sorry but still proud!
Before entering the final day, Trinh Thu Vinh had a difficult journey in the qualifying rounds. 578 points after 60 bullets, including 12 consecutive 10 points in the 4th and 5th rounds, was the achievement that helped the 2000-born shooter become the first Vietnamese female shooter to participate in the final day.
Graphics: Nguyen Hai Nam
The young shooter from Thanh Hoa entered the first biggest competition day of her career with great determination. Her opponents were the world's top shooters such as Li Xue (China, world No. 10), Kim Ye-Jin (Korea, world No. 7), Jiang Ranxin (China, world No. 3) and Hungary's hope Veronika Major - who owns 3 gold medals at the 2023 ISSF World Cup in different air pistol events and is also the leading athlete in the women's 10m single air pistol qualifying round. With the nature of a medal competition day, the pressure of this match was pushed to the highest level when her opponents were experienced shooters in the international arena.
In the end, she finished 4th. Although she could not win a medal in her first time at the Olympics, as former coach of the Vietnamese shooting team Nguyen Thi Nhung commented on her personal page a few minutes ago: "Congratulations to Thu Vinh for placing 4th overall. With what Thu Vinh showed, we have the right to be proud of Vinh."
Trinh Thu Vinh regretfully stopped at 4th place in the 10m Olympic air pistol final.
Starting from zero, practicing shooting for 7 years
Trinh Thu Vinh and her memorable journey. She also competed in the women's 25m air pistol event on August 2.
Vinh started out in athletics, but Vinh and athletics don't "like each other." She didn't have many positive achievements, so she decided to quit athletics and only started training in shooting 7 years ago.
During the years of arduous training at the shooting range, she honed her skills and competitive mentality and made strong progress to confidently enter her name in the final round at the very first Olympic Games of her career.
The young girl once shared that "Winning yourself is winning the whole competition", the desire to break her own limits is Vinh's guiding principle, helping her encourage herself to make every effort in training and competing, so that today's results, although not bringing overwhelming joy, Vinh still has the right to be proud of herself.
Poor countryside awaits shooter Trinh Thu Vinh to return with Olympic medal
Expert Park Chung-gun once shared: "Thu Vinh is an athlete capable of going far. She has the composure and the drive to progress that few young athletes have." It can be seen that the efforts, determination and drive of the 24-year-old female shooter are a solid foundation for the coaching staff to put their faith in the future of this young girl from Thanh Hoa.
Source: https://thanhnien.vn/trinh-thu-vinh-o-tuoi-24-tu-vdv-dien-kinh-den-top-4-olympic-mon-ban-sung-185240728120340089.htm
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