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Country | China | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Paralympic shooting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Disability class | SH1 [1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yang Chao (born 7 May 1979) is a Chinese paralympic sport shooter. [2] [3] [4]
He participated at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in the shooting competition, and won a gold medal in the men's 10 m air pistol event, scoring 571.0. [5] and won a silver medal in the mixed 50 m pistol event, scoring 538.0. [5] He participated at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in the shooting competition, and won a gold medal in the men's 10 m air pistol event, scoring 237.9. [6]
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