Vietnamese state media reported that Hoang Xuan 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. 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-metre air pistol clinched him gold. Vietnam's state media said Hoang Xuan Vinh learned how to shoot in the communist country's military which he joined in 1991, initially practising on AK47 rifles. 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. 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.

Source: Bangkok Post August 07, 2016 07:07 UTC