Veteran marksman Tan Zongliang kept his good luck rolling and won the men's 10m air pistol at the ISSF World Cup in Milan.

This is his second gold medal in a row following his success in Berlin last week.

With a starting 10.7, the 34-year-old sharpshooter left his qualification position six and moved right to third place.

Benefiting from Tanyu Kiriakov's fatal seventh shot of 7.8, the path to the top was free for the Chinese.

An Olympic Gold medallist at Seoul 1988, 43-year-old Kiriakov from Bulgaria won the silver medal and secured Bulgaria's quota place for the 2008 Beijing Games.

Sydney Olympics champion Franck Dumoulin from France won bronze.

However, it was a different story with female shooter Ren Jie.

The Chinese 10m air pistol world record holder tied Jasna Sekaric from Serbia and Montenegro after the tenth final shot. With the tiny difference of one tenth of a point, Jasna Sekaric won the shoot-off for first place with 9.8 over Ren Jie's 9.7.

The women's bronze medal went to Maria Grozdeva, 33, from Bulgaria.

The Olympic quota place for the 2008 Beijing Games went to Switzerland, won by Sandra Kolly. She started the final at first place but dropped to rank fifth.

(CRI English June 2, 2006)