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    Vietnamese celebrated winning their first ever Olympic gold medal in men's 10-meter air pistol, where Hoang Xuan Vinh, a 41-year-old army colonel, defeated competitors from Brazil and China. Vinh's victory was especially sweet for Vietnamese because it came over their regional rival China, and he will receive a sizable reward of $100,000 from the Vietnamese state upon his return home.

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    Vietnamese celebrated winning their first ever Olympic gold medal in men's 10-meter air pistol, where Hoang Xuan Vinh, a 41-year-old army colonel, defeated competitors from Brazil and China. Vinh's victory was especially sweet for Vietnamese because it came over their regional rival China, and he will receive a sizable reward of $100,000 from the Vietnamese state upon his return home.

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    Vietnamese celebrated winning their first ever Olympic gold medal in men's 10-meter air pistol, where Hoang Xuan Vinh, a 41-year-old army colonel, defeated competitors from Brazil and China. Vinh's victory was especially sweet for Vietnamese because it came over their regional rival China, and he will receive a sizable reward of $100,000 from the Vietnamese state upon his return home.

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    AIR PISTOL

    Vietnamese rejoice at first Olympic gold

    Vietnamese rejoiced Sunday after their country won its first ever Olympic gold medal, a victory
    made all the more sweeter by the fact that regional rival China was beaten along the way.

    Hoang Xuan Vinh, a 41-year-old a serving army colonel who first learned to shoot with AK47
    rifles, made history in Rio overnight when a near-perfect final shot in the men’s 10-meter air
    pistol clinched him gold.

    Vietnamese state media reported that Vinh would receive $100,000 from the state on his return
    — a handsome sum in a country where the average annual income is around $2,100.

    Vinh’s victory shunted Brazil’s Felipe Almeida Wu and China’s Pang Wei into second and third
    respectively, something that was seized on by jubilant Vietnamese.

    “So proud! But the greatest happiness was that we won over China,” Nguyen Cao Ky Duyen, a
    Vietnamese music show host based in the US but popular in her homeland, wrote on Facebook.

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