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China's Zhu slips to second in qualification

Lee Chyen Yee
BEIJING
Sun Aug 10, 2008 11:50pm EDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Zhu Qinan suffered a late lapse in concentration to drop to second place in qualification for the men's 10m air rifle event behind Henri Hakkinen of Finland on Monday.

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Zhu, who won the Olympic gold medal in Athens and is the heavy favourite to claim China's third gold in shooting, was leading after the first 40 shots with a perfect 400 but scored a 99 in series five and slipped further with a 98 in his last.

That allowed Hakkinen, who had a 99 in his third and sixth series, to overtake him before the finals.

Zhu had to rush his final shots as the clock was ticking down.

(Editing by Ed Osmond)
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