Qualification does not award the final medal
Adela Zrustova’s 632.7 in women’s air-rifle qualification at Gongxi was a championship record. She won the final on 251.0, with Tifenn Pomes taking silver on 250.7. The first number belongs to qualification and the second to the medal round. The qualifying score alone could not award Zrustova the final, even though she produced the leading result in both stages. Her qualification mark and gold medal are related achievements, but they are not two names for one score.[1]
The distinction was sharper in the men’s event. Jiri Privratsky led qualification, yet finished the final with silver on 252.1. Timothee Vedel moved ahead over his last two shots and took gold on 252.3, a margin of 0.2. Leading the earlier stage did not settle the last shots. Privratsky’s world and European medals and fourth place at the Paris Olympics described his background, but they could not change the order of this final. The decisive numbers for the individual title were the final scores. Vedel’s final shots changed the lead; the earlier shots may also have kept the match close enough for that finish to matter.[1]
The team table came from a different stage
The third scorecard awarded team medals. The organisers added athletes’ qualification scores for this table instead of using individual final results. France won women’s team gold, followed by South Korea and Czechia. The individual women’s champion was Czech, while the team title went to France. Pomes earned an individual silver on the day France took team gold, but those medals came from different calculations. Carrying one athlete’s final placing straight into the team order would give the wrong explanation of the result.[1]
South Korea took men’s team gold, Hungary silver and Singapore bronze. Vedel’s individual title for France did not give France the men’s team title. Csongor Levai’s individual bronze for Hungary and his country’s team silver were also separate competition outcomes. The day’s results answer three questions: who led qualification, who took medals in the final, and which team led after qualification scores were combined? Keeping those answers in their own stages makes the close individual margins intelligible without treating them as team points. In the next set of results, watch which numbers belong to qualification, the final and the team total.[1]