Walton Eller of the United States was in a class of his own in winning the men's double trap shooting Olympic gold medal on Tuesday. The deer hunter from Texas dominated the field in the qualification and kept a steady hand in the finals on a hot afternoon in Beijing in front of a fired-up Chinese crowd to clinch the gold with two shots to spare.
Eller, 26, finished on 190 points with Francesco D'Aniello, an Italian police officer, taking second on 187. China's Hu Binyuan won bronze after a fantastic final round. Cheered on by a large crowd of Chinese supporters, Hu moved up from fourth place after qualification with 46 out of a possible 50 targets in the finals for a score of 184.
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