Wang's triumph was particularly special, as she broke the world record in the women's event, with a score of 254.8.
By the end of the first competition stage, Wang was ahead comfortably of Arya Borse of India in second, but her quality really shone through in the elimination stages. From 14 shots, her lowest score was 10.4, meanwhile, eight shots were of a score of 10.7 or higher. Her total became a new world record and world junior record, beating the previous marker of her teammate Huang Yuting.
Further back, Borse struggled to keep up the quality needed to compete for the medals, falling to fifth in the end. While her performance dipped, Han Jiayu, also of China, improved. After facing elimination on a couple of occasions, Han's scores started to impress, bringing her the silver medal with a total of 250.4. Fan Xinyi made it an all-Chinese podium, securing bronze ahead of Jeanette Hegg Duestad from Norway. Kwon Eunji of Republic of Korea, Yelizaveta Bezrukova of Kazakhstan and Mary Tucker of the United States were also in the final.
The Olympic champion Sheng had a last-moment comeback to defeat Arjun Babuta of India for the men’s title.
Babuta had a strong opening part to the second competition stage, but Sheng managed to slowly close the gap, sitting just 0.3 behind into the last two shots. A 10.3 and 10.5 looked good enough to seal the title, but Sheng pulled out a 10.9 and a 10.3 to sneak ahead, with the totals finishing 252.4 to 252.3.
Istvan Peni of Hungary, the early leader, held onto the bronze medal ahead of Olympic silver medallist Victor Lindgren of Sweden. Jon-Hermann Hegg from Norway came close to the medals, but a difficult last round saw him eliminated in fifth.
Ole Martin Halvorsen, also of Norway, Rylan Kisseell of the United States and Buenos Aires World Cup winner Rudrankksh Patil of India finished sixth, seventh and eighth.
You can find all results and information from the Lima ISSF World Cup here.