Wang and Sheng’s individual contributions
Wang Zifei’s 253.2 points joined Sheng Lihao’s 252.9 to deliver mixed 10 m air rifle gold in Doha with 506.1. Their contributions were very close. Wang’s higher individual total does not make Sheng’s part secondary. The number used in the team ranking combines both entries. Describing this victory through one shooter alone would leave out half of the calculation used in the final.[1]
On China’s silver-medal team, Du Yuchen contributed 252.6 and Zhang Changhong 251.8, for a total of 504.4. Both individual totals on the winning team exceeded the highest individual total on the runner-up team. This result does not rest on one exceptionally high contribution compensating for a much lower partner score. Wang and Sheng’s closely matched totals place their advantage across both entries on the team card.[1]
The gold contest before the last block
At matching checkpoints, Wang and Sheng’s team had 105.8 in the opening block against their rivals’ 105.3. A later shared checkpoint read 315.7 and 314.6. Before the last block, the totals were 442.8 and 440.9. The eventual winners led at each of those comparison points. The final total continues an advantage already visible earlier; there is no reversal of the ranking here that needs to be explained solely through the closing block.[1]
In the last block Wang added 32.1 and Sheng 31.2. Du scored 31.9 and Zhang 31.6. The silver-medal team scored the higher combined contribution in that closing block but did not overtake the accumulated total. A better closing contribution and a better whole-final total can therefore belong to different teams. Gold here followed the final ranking of 506.1 against 504.4, carrying the preceding blocks forward.[1]
The stage where bronze stopped
South Korea’s Ban Hyojin and Park Hajun won bronze on 440.1. That total came at the stage where the Chinese teams stood at 442.8 and 440.9. Korea’s entry stopped there while the leading two teams contested another block. A direct comparison between 440.1 and the winners’ 506.1 would therefore compare unequal portions of the final. The stage where bronze was settled matters alongside the size of the total.[1]
Hungary’s Eszter Denes and Istvan Marton Peni finished on 376.2 at an earlier stopping point. The other three teams had 379.6, 377.7 and 376.9 at that same stage. Fourth place becomes clear in that shared comparison. Reading the Doha final starts with who remained in competition at each stage, then compares totals at a common point. The medal table gives the outcome; partner contributions and elimination checkpoints make its numerical shape visible.[1]