KUWAIT CITY - Pulling off her gloves, the slender girl with a ponytail kept a straight face while announced runner-up in women's 50-meter rifle three positions.

Had she scored 10.2 points, 25-year-old Du Li from China would catch her first three positions gold in international events, although she had raked in numerous medals in 10-meter air rifle and was recognized as world No.1 of the discipline.

"I had been expecting a success in three positions so much," she said. "Without a chance in the last two years, I really wanted to do well this time."

Du made her name by creating a world record of women's 10-meter air rifle with 104.9 points at the World Cup Zagreb Fort. The gold medal she later obtained at the Athens Olympic Games further posed her in limelights.

However, few people know that Du, who picked up 50-meter rifles only in August last year, had collected 594 points in women's 50-meter rifle three positions during trainings, a score equalling the world record held by German markswoman Sonja Pfeilschifter.

"I thought myself good at both events in 2002 when I was just accepted by the national shooting squad," she said. "But it was too tiring for a shooter to grow as balance and I thus focused on air rifle."

In the competition finished on Thursday, Du mounted the champion platform of 10-meter air rifle again with an easy win of 503.7 points.

The competition left her some regret, as the girl from East China's Shandong Province needed only a 10.6 point in the last shot, a score seemed easy to her, to improve the world record she held.

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