When Huang Yuting and Sheng Lihao won the first gold at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics for China in the 10-meter air rifle mixed team shooting final on Saturday, Huang’s youth coach, high school classmates, and teachers cheered on her success back in her hometown of Taizhou, east China’s Zhejiang Province.
Huang started her shooting journey early and joined a local team in January 2017. Less than four years later, she was selected into the Zhejiang Provincial Shooting Team, where her talents were noticed by the national team.
“Stability is Huang’s best quality. She has always been a calm child, suitable for shooting, stable in life, and strong in mentality,” Huang’s youth coach Lin Kehan told CGTN. “In every competition, her performance often surprises you, and in major competitions especially, she can steadily display her techniques.”
Lu Lingjun, one of Huang’s high school teachers, was very excited to watch her win gold at the Paris Games and believes that her success will inspire the whole school.
“This will not only inspire Huang, but also the entire school because our school raised an Olympic champion,” Lu said. “Her spirit, her will, her perseverance, her hard training, and her work of achieving such glory for China will make her a role model for our students.”
