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ISSF World Cup Final 2010
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27-10-2010 9:28pm#1From the ISSF website:10M AIR PISTOL WOMEN – KLIMOVA CLAIMED THE WORLD CUP
The first Gold medal of the 2010 ISSF World Cup Final went to Russia's Kira Klimova, winner of the 10m Air Pistol Women event.
The 10m Air Pistol Women event opened the 2010 ISSF World Cup Final in Rifle and Pistol events in Munich, the conclusive World Cup stage of the 2010 seasons.
This was the first final round to take place with the new warm-up and athletes presentation rules. The athletes performed their preparation, sighting time and warm-up, and then they put their pistol down and turned their faces to the spectators, to be presented by the speakers. The first competition shot followed immediately after.
It was Russia’s Kira Klimova to win the 10m Air Pistol Women title. The 27-year old shooter, qualified thanks to a Silver medal won at this year’s World Cup Stage of Fort Benning (USA), placed in first with a total score of 484,7 points.
Qualified in third with 384 points, the Russian shooter climbed up the scoreboard by marking 100.7 points throughout the final round, ending up on the highest step of the podium with a 0.7 points advantage on the Silver medallist, Belarus’ Viktoria Chaika, second with 484.0 points.
Chaika and Klimova fought throughout the first part match, shooting neck and neck since the first competition shot. It was after the fifth shot that Klimova moved up in the lead, thanks to an excellent 10.5 that lifted her on the highest step of the podium.
This has been “the best season” of Klimova’s sport career. Starting from the ISSF World Cup Stage in Fort Benning, where she claimed two Silver medals, she has been climbing up the world ranking, winning the 25m Pistol Women World Title last August, and closing her extraordinary year with today’s 10m Air Pistol Women World Cup.
France’s Celine Goberville (24-year old) winner of the last World Cup stage of the year in Belgrade, placed in third today, securing the Bronze medal with a total score of 483.3 points. Making it into the final in sixth place with 382 points, the young athlete climbed the scoreboard up to the podium by firing the final’s highest score, 101.3 points.
She was followed by the winner of this year’s World Cup stage held in Fort Benning, Kazakhstan’s Zauresh Baibussinova. Baibussinova had started the final match in the lead, with a qualification score of 387 points and a one-point head start on her followers. Kicking-off the final match with a 9.9 shot, the Kazakh shooter lost her advantage on the followers. But it was the second competition shot that pulled her down to the mid of the scoreboard. Firing a frustrating 8.1, the Kazakh shooter landed indeed in fourth place, where she eventually closed the match with a total score of 482.8 points.
Russia’s Liubov Yaskevich, 25, placed in fifth with 480.5 points, followed by this year’s World Champion, the 23-year old Serbian shooter Zorana Arunoivic, who kicked-off her World Cup Final in fourth place, with 383 points, ending then in sixth with 479.9 points.
The 2004 Olympic Champion of Athens, Olena Kostevych of Ukraine, and Australia’s Lalita Yauhleuskaya, closed the match in seventh and eight place, respectively.
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From the ISSF website:50M PISTOL MEN – “MY BEST SEASON” GOLD MEDALLIST SZARENSKI CLAIMED
USA’s Daryl Szarenski closed the 2010 ISSF World Cup Series on the highest step of the podium, securing the World Cup title with more than 5 points of advantage on his followers.
“This has definitively been my best season ever!” The American pistol shooter Daryl Szarenski said right after the last shot of today’s 50m Pistol Men competition.
Qualified in first place with a score of 565 points, and with three points of advantage on his followers, the 42-year old American shooter played an excellent final, marking 97.5 points, and claiming the Gold medal with a total score of 662.5 points.
Szarenski has been one of the main protagonists of this 2010 ISSF World Cup Series, by entering almost every final match throughout the season, and finishing four times on the podium (two Gold medals at the World Cup stage in Beijing, a Silver in Fort Benning and a Bronze in Sydney).
“Every year I try to slowly improve my performance, working step by step. But this season has been extraordinary,” Szarenskiu said after nailing the Gold “I only have some regrets for the World Championship. I could have shot a medal, there.” Continued the American shooter, who had placed in sixth at the 2010 World Championship held here in Munch last August.
“Next aim? To do my best throughout the 2011 season, and go for an Olympic medal in 2012!” Szarenski concluded.
The Silver medal went to the Bronze medallist of the 2008 Olympic Games, Russia’s pistol ace shooter Vladimir Isakov. The 40-year old shooter, who had qualified for this World Cup Final by winning a Bronze medal at the ISSF World Cup Stage held in Belgrade, ended up in second place with a total score of 657.0 points, just two tenths more than what marked by the Bronze medallist Matzuda.
The World Champion of Munich 2010, Japan’s Matsuda Tomoyuki, confirmed to be in great athletic conditions by placing in third after a breathtaking final match. The 34-year old shooter fought against Slovakia’s Kopp throughout the first part of the final round, moving then in third place thanks to an excellent 10.6 fired on his fifth competition shot.
From there on, Matsuda tried his best to catch up Isakov in second place, but ten shots turned out to be not enough to reach the Russian champion. Matsuda ended up in third, just two tenths shy of securing the Silver, and was awarded the Bronze medal with a total score of 656.8 points.
Russia’s young champion Leonid Ekimov, 23, a World Championship junior multi-medallist, placed in fourth, following the leading trio with a total of 654.7 points. Three points behind him, Armenia’s Norayr Bakhtamyan placed in fifth with 651.3 points, while the home shooter Abdullah Ustaoglu, shooting for Germany, landed in sixth place with 651.0 points after shooting-off Slovakia’s Kopp, seventh today.
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From the ISSF website:10M AIR RIFLE MEN – RUSSIA’S SOKOLOV BEAT WORLD CHAMPION CAMPRIANI
Russia’s Sokolov won his second World Cup Final title, stealing the show of the 2010 World Champion Campriani. Sidi third, while the two Indian Narang and Rajput had to shoot-off in fourth place.
Denis Sokolov or the Russian Federation won the 10m Air Rifle Men final at the ISSF World Cup Final in Munich, claiming his second World Cup title five year after his victory at the 2005 ISSF World Cup Final
The 27-year old Russian shooter, a member of the CSKA team, placed in first by shooting 104.5 points throughout the final, after qualifying in the lead with a score of 597 points with a one-point head start on the 2010 World Champion Campriani of Italy.
Thanks to two consecutive 10.8-shot fired on his seventh and eighth competition shots, the Russian athlete archived his victory by putting two points of advantage between himself and his followers, and ended up on the highest step of the podium with a total score of 701.5 points.
Sokolov, a World Record holder ranked fifth in the World, had finished in the spotlights at the beginning of the season, when he secured a Bronze medal at the European Championship held in Meraker. Then, the rifle shooter qualified to compete in this year’s ISSF World Cup Final by winning Beijing’s World Cup Stage and by finishing on the podium of the Belgrade’s Stage, this year.
Campriani’s perfect ninth shot of 10.9 points was not enough to catch up Sokolov. The 2010 World Champion Niccolò Campriani of Italy, world’s top ranked shooter, ended up in second place with a total score of 698.7 points. The Italian shooter, 22-year old, had started the match with a qualification score of 596 hits, and his final score of 102.7 points could not stand Sokolov’s outstanding 104.5-point final.
The Bronze medal went to Hungary’s Peter Sidi, 32-year old. The Hungarian shooter, second at the ISSF World Championship held here last August, turned out to be 100% satisfied about his performance. Qualified with 595 points, he scored 103.3 points throughout the final, finishing in third with a total of 698.3 points.
“I made no mistakes, in this final. We are all tired, at this point of the season, and it’s easy to miss a medal in these conditions” Sidi said.
“I have been preparing myself for the 50m Rifle Three Position event! See you there in two days!” concluded Sidi, wearing the Bronze.
The 10m Air Rifle match was closed by a shoot-off between the two Indian teammates Gagan Narang (27) and Sanjeev Rajput (29). The two Indian shooters fought right to the end to find a spot on the podium, before being overtaken by Sidi, eventually finishing in ending up tied in fourth with a total score of 697.8 points. It was then Narang who secured the fourth place by firing a 10.1 to Rajput 9.7 shot, in spite of a problem with the cheek plate of his stock.
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From the ISSF website:10M AIR RIFLE WOMEN – BAVARIA BEAT BADEN WUERTTEMBERG IN A GERMAN DUEL
Germany’s Pfeilschifter and Gauss duelled right to the last shot for the 2010 ISSF World Cup title in the 10m Air Rifle Women event
It has been the last shot to decide the podium placements of the 10m Air Rifle Women final, at the ISSF World Cup Final in Rifle and Pistol event in Munich, where a German duel kept the Bavarian spectator breathless right to the end.
The two home ahtletes, Germany’s Beate Gauss and Sonja Pfeilschifter, from Baden and Bavaria respectively, fought throughout the whole final match, trying to secure the brightest medal tenth after tenth.
Gauss, who had made it into the final with a great world record score of 400 points, had a one-point lead over her teammate Pfeilschifter after the qualifications. But, as the final match started, the two German shooters exchanged their positions in first and second place several times.
After the ninth shot, it was Gauss who was leading with 0.9 points of advantage. But it was then the tenth and last shot that decided the match in favour of Pfeilschifeter, who scored an outstanding 10.7 beating Gauss’s 9.4, triggering the applauses of the Bavarian audience.
Sonja Pfeilschifer, 39, secured the title with a total score of 503.5 points, winning her fourth World Cup Final on the lines of the 1972 Olympic Shooting Range of Munich (she had won three consecutive World Cup Final editions held here in 1999, 2000 and 2001).
26-year old Beate Gauss, ranked third in the world, had qualified for this year’s ISSF World Cup Final by securing a Bronze medal at the World Cup Stage held in Beijing, and by competing in the World Championship final match. During the morning’s qualifications, she ranked first with a great 400-point score, but after firing that disappointing 9.4-shot she landed in second place, grabbing the Silver medal with a total of 503.1 points, just two tenths far from Pfeilschifter.
While the two home shooters were duelling for the top of the podium, the battle for Bronze kept the TV spectator’s breath. Katerina Emmons of Czech Republic, Eliana Nardelli of Italy and Jamie Bayerle of USA fought indeed right to the end for the last spot on Munich’s podium.
The 2008 Olympic Champion Katerina Emmons came back to an ISSF World Cup Final after missing since 2007. The Czech shooter qualified to participate in this match by winning a World Cup Stage in Sydney, at the beginning of the season. With 397 qualification points, she made it into the final match in third place, but then closed the round in fifth with a total of 498.6 points after nailing two consecutive 9.8 shots.
The battle for Bronze finished in a shoot-off between Elania Nardelli, today’s youngest finalist, and USA’s Jamie Beyerle, one of the protagonists of this year’s ISSF World Cup Series.
And it was the experienced Beyerle who secured the Bronze, winning the shoot-off 10.5 to 9.8, finishing on the podium with a total of 499.2 + 10.5 points, and leaving Nardelli in fourth with a total score of 499.2 + 9.8 points.
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From the ISSF website (but also see IWM's thread on this):50M RIFLE PRONE MEN – WORLD CHAMP MARTYNOV CLAIMED HIS FIFTH WORLD CUP TITLE
Belarus’ Martynov won the 50m Rifle Prone match in Munihc, claiming the title on the same lines where he had won the World Championship just two months ago.
The “best prone shooter of the world”, the current World Champion and world rank’s leader, Belarus’ Sergey Martynov, did not delude his fans, and nailed another extraordinary victory today, claiming the 2010 ISSF World Cup Final gold medal after an intense match.
The 42-year old Belarusian shooter made it into the final with an unbeatable qualification score of 600 points, equalling the world record for the sixth time in his career, and becoming the shooter with the highest number of equalled world records in this event. Then, shooting solidly, he managed his advantage over the followers by scoring 103.2 points throughout the ten-shot final, ending with the Gold with 703.2 points.
“Five years ago I’ve lost a Gold medal in spite of entering the final with an equalled world record, so nothing was sure, after the qualifications.” Martynov commented after the final match, remembering the 2005 ISSF World Cup Final held here in Munich the 26th of August of five years ago, when he eventually ended up in second place “Finals are always difficult. I really did not make anything special to prepare myself, I just shot as good as I could.”
This victory concluded Martynov’s great season. In spite of struggling to finish on the podium of the first world cup stages of the year, the 42-year old Belarusian shooter proved to be the best prone shooter of the world at the last ISSF World Championship, held here in Munich last August. Shooting on the same lines, he won the World Champion title, becoming the first athlete of the ISSF history to win two World Championship Rifle Prone gold medals (he had led also the 2006 edition in Zagreb).
The next aim? “I am shooting for Gold, and the focus is now on the Olympic Games”, as Martynov had said here in Munich. After winning five World Cup Finals and two World Championships, Sergei wants indeed to go for the only trophy he is missing, the most important, the Olympic Gold.
Martynov turned out to be unreachable, today, but the last three shots of the match kept the spectator’s breath, as they decided the podium placements behind the champion, with four shooters ending up with a difference of 0.7 points, tenths of a millimetre on a 50m Rifle Prone target.
105.7 points, today’s best final score, were not enough to grab the Gold medal. Norway’s Vebjoern Berg, the title defender, winner of the 2009 World Cup Final in Wuxi, qualified in seventh place with 596 points, and then climbed up the scoreboard with a series of excellent shots. Fighting against Starik, Rothmund and Junghaenel throughout the whole final round, he totalized that outstanding final score, and eventually landed in second place thanks to a last shot of 10.6 points, with a total score of 701.7 points.
Germany’s Henri Junghaenel, 22-year old, one of the youngest participants, followed him in third place. He had qualified to participate in this ISSF World Cup Final by finishing on the podium of the Beijing’s World Cup Stage, where he had won his first world cup medal ever. Starting today’s final in second place with 598 points, he fought against Berg since the first shots, sliding then in third place at the last shot, where he landed with 701.5 points and the Bronze.
Junghaenel beat by 0.1 points the second German shooter, his teammate Armin Rothmund, whose best World Cup placement had been a fifth place at this year’s Fort Benning’s Stage. The 31-year old athlete eventually ended up in fourth place, with a last shot of 10.1, and a total score of 701.4 points, just 0.1 far from the first international podium of his career.
Following just tenths behind them, the experienced Israeli champion Guy Starik, 45, finished in fifth place. Qualified for the final match in third place with a qualification score of 597 points, he duelled against the two German teammates and the Norwegian Silver medallist right to the end, eventually finishing in fifth place with 701.0 points.
Australia’s Warren Potent, USA’s Joseph Hein and India’s Joydeep Karmar closed the match in sixth, seventh and eighth place, respectively.
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From the ISSF website:50M RIFLE 3 POSITIONS WOMEN – BEYERLE CLAIMED GOLD
USA’s Jamie Beyerle won the 50m Rifle 3 Positions Women final, closing the 2010 shooting season with more than 4 points of advantage on her followers.
USA’s Jamie Beyerle won the 50m Rifle Three Positions Women event at the ISSF World Cup Final in Munich, today. The 26-year old shooter, who placed in third at last year’s ISSF World Cup Final in Wuxi, had qualified for this year’s Final by winning her home match (the Fort Benning’s World Cup Stage) and a Silver medal at the first Stage of the year, in Sydney.
Starting today’s final round in first place with a score of 590 points, Beyerle shot solidly throughout the final, ending up on the highest step of the podium with a total score of 690.7 points.
The title defender, the winner of the 2009 World Cup Final, Serbia’s Lidjia Mihajlovic (42), made it into the final round with a qualification score of 590 points, tied to the qualification leader Bayerle. But by firing a frustrating 7.7 on her fourth competition shot, the Serbian shooter lost her chances of victory, leaving the Gold medal to Beyerle.
Fighting against Germany’s Pfeilschifter to save at least the second place, Mihajlovic ended up the final with a score of 96.5 points, grabbing the Silver medal with a total score of 686.5 points.
Germany finished again in the spotlights, during this 50m Rifle 3 Positions Women final. Three German shooters, Lechner, Pfeilschifter and Friedel entered indeed the final match, and tried their hardest to find a spot on the podium.
The home hero, Bavaria’s Sonja Pfeilschifter, confirmed to be one of the leading rifle shooters of the world once again, today. Winner of a World Cup Title in the 10m Air Rifle event yesterday morning, she battled her opponents since the first shot to climb up in second place.
Starting the match with 599 points (one point behind the leading couple Beyerle-Mihajlovic), Pfeilschifter shot a consistent final, eventually securing the Bronze medal with a total score of 685.9 points.
Pfeilschifter, 39-year old, had finished in second at the last ISSF World Championship held here in Munich, and won two other World Cup Finals in this event in her career, in 1999 and 2008.
The 2010 World Champion, the home shooter Barbara Lechner, 28, started the match with a lower qualification score, 585 points, and finished the round in fifth place with 683.0 points, overtaken by Croatia’s Snjezana Pejcic, fourth with 683.8 points.
At the same time, it was a 7.3 fired on her sixth competition shot that put the third German finalist, Eva Friedel, out of the games for the podium. The 26-year old athlete, who had qualified in seventh with 582 points, ended up in sixth place with a total of 679.8 points, just two tenths far from her teammate Lechner.
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From the ISSF website:10M AIR PISTOL MEN - EUROPEAN CHAMP BADARACCHI SECURED THE TITLE
"I like the new rules" said the Italian winner, commenting on the new ISSF rules "I knew what the others were doing, that extra pressure pushed me to give my best!"
Italy’s Marco Badaracchi, 26, from Rome, made it into the final round in the lead, with a qualification score of 587 points that gave him a 3-point head start over his followers.
The young Italian shooter, awarded European Champion at the beginning of the seasons, had qualified for this World Cup Final last June, when he had won the ISSF World Cup Stage held in Belgrade.
By firing a frustrating 8.7 on his sixth competition shot, the Italian athlete jeopardized his victory. "It can happen" The Italian said. In spite of the pressure pumping, and of the tension playing on his nerves, Badaracchi recovered immediately with a 10.3 shot, finishing then the match in first place with a total score of 687.0 points and more than one point of advantage on his followers
“I like the new rules, I knew what was happing around me, while the final was going on” Badaracchi said after the final, commenting on the new ISSF rule introduced here in Munich. After every competition shot, a speaker announces the scores, the placement and the gap from the lead of every finalists, commenting on their results.
“Thanks to the speaker, I knew Yunusmetov was firing great shots and climbing up the scoreboard. The extra pressure of knowing what he was doing boosted me to perform at my best” The Italian continued “In any other sport you know what you’re competitor is doing. It’s now the same even in shooting, that’s a good news”.
“After the European Championship and the World Cup, my next aim is to secure an Olympic Quota Place, a ticket to London 2012!” Badaracchi concluded wearing the Gold medal
In the spotlights, Rashid Yunusmetov of Kazakhstan finished again between the bests, surprising the spectators with an extraordinary result in the final round. The 31-year old shooter, ranked 13th in the world, had won a Silver medal at this year’s ISSF World Cup Stage in Fort Benning, qualifying for this event.
Entering today’s final match with 581 points in eighth and last place, he climbed up the scoreboard with 104.8 points, today’s highest final, a extraordinary score. Closing his round with a 10.6, the Kazakh shooter claimed the Silver medal with a total of 685.8 points, winning his first World Cup Final medal ever.
The current World Champion, Matsuda Tomoyuki, a hero of the 2010 ISSF World Championship (two titles won in two different pistol events), was the protagonist of another excellent performance, today. Entering the final with the lowest qualification score (581 points), the 34-year old Japanese champion climbed up in third, securing the Bronze with a total score of 682.8 points, after scoring 101.8 points in the final.
Today’s turned out to be an unlucky final for the 2008 Olympic Silver medallist, Korea’s Jin Jong Oh. , Walking into the final match in third with a qualification score of 584 points, he eventually landed in fifth place with 682.2 points, just sixth tenths of a point far from the podium.
Jin had won the 2009 ISSF World Cup Final held in Wuxi, and arrived here in Munich after winning a World Cup Stage’s gold at the beginning of the season and a World Championship in Bronze, last August.
The 2000 Olympic Champion Franck Dumoulin of France followed him in sixth place, while India’s hope Omkar Singh (winner of a World Cup’s Silver in Sydney this year) closed the match in seventh place.
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From the ISSF website:25M PISTOL WOMEN – SALUKVADZE KEEPS THE CUP
The Georgian shooter defeated her young opponents keeping the Cup she had won at last year’s World Cup Final in Wuxi
The 1988 Olympic Champion of Seoul, Georgia’s Nino Salukvadze, won her second consecutive ISSF World Cup Final by winning today’s 25m Pistol Women final in Munich.
The 41-year old shooter made it into the final round in fourth place with a qualification score of 578 points, but then she turned the tables of the match thanks to an excellent last series of 52.4 points that lifted her up in the lead.
Scoring 205.4 points in the final, for a total of 783.4 points, the Georgian athlete secured her second, consecutive ISSF World Cup title, one year after her victory on the shooting lines of Wuxi. Salukvadze had already won two ISSF World Cup Finals in this event in 1989 and 1993.
Following her in second, the 2004 Olympic Silver medallist of the Czech Republic, Lenka Maruskova, secured Silver with a total score of 781.9 points. Qualified in third place with 579 points, the 25-year old Czech shooter finished on the second step of the podium by marking 202.9 points during the final.
Bronze went to the qualification leader, today’s youngest medallist, 24-year old France shooter Celine Goberville.
Goberville, who had qualified for this event by winning a Silver medal at the ISSF World Cup Stage in Belgrade last June, made it into today’s final round in the lead with three points of advantage on her experienced followers.
But, after a malfunction on her fourth and last competition series, she slid down in the placement, landing in Bronze position with a total of 780.5 points.
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But the Chinese team are missing out on all of the fun. From the ISSF website:CHINESE TEAM CANCELLED ITS PARTICIPATION IN THE WORLD CUP FINAL
A sudden infection of the conjunctiva kept the Chinese team in Beijing. No Chinese shooters will compete in this World Cup Final.
Chinese shooters cancelled their participation in the 2010 ISSF World Cup Final in Munich, in spite of having seven shooters qualified to participate in the match.
The team announced the cancellation speaking of “health problem” of their shooters.
“Due to the sudden infection of the conjunctiva by three of our shooters, we feel regretful to cancel the participation of our team to the World Cup Final in Munich” The Chinese Shooting Association communicate to the ISSF
“It is quite a hard decision for us, but we cannot risk going to Munich and compete with other shooters while knowing our shooters carry this virus” The Chinese Shooting Association stated.
The next seven qualified shooters were invited to participate in the World Cup Final taking place in Munich between the 26th and the 29th of October.
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The thing I was more looking at was Sokolov's kit in the 10m finals. I know there's a Russian thing of having kit that looks like it cost less than the entry fee, but still!
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From the ISSF website:50M RIFLE 3 POSITIONS MEN – KHADJIBEKOV WAS UNREACHABLE
With 7 points of head start after the qualification, the Russian ace shooter turned out to be unbeatable, in the last Rifle event of the 2010 ISSF World Cup Final in Munich.
The 50m Rifle Three Positions Men final closed the Rifle competitions at the 2010 ISSF World Cup Final in Munich.
The match was led since the qualifications by the 2006 World Champion, Artem Khadjibekov of Russia, a rifle specialist shooting for the CSKA club.
Nobody could reach or even come close to the Russian Champion, who exploited his huge advantage to control his opponents during the final round.
Khadjibekov, who had qualified to participate in the event by winning a Silver medal at this year’s World Cup Stage in Belgrade, made it into the final in the lead with an excellent score of 1181 points (399 in prone, 386 in standing and 396 in kneeling), leaving his closest opponents 7 points behind him.
Shooting solidly, he build up his victory throughout the 10-shot final match, finishing on the highest step of the podium with a total score of 1278.7 points, with a 6.9-point lead over his followers.
The 40-year old athlete had already won an ISSF World Cup Final in this event in 2001. The next aim of the Russian champion, who has been competing in all Olympic editions since 1996, is now to secure an Olympic quota place, an entrance ticket to the London 2012 Games, during the 2011 ISSF World Cup Season.
While Khadjibekov was securing the Cup, Italy’s Campriani and Hungary’s Sidi put the fight for the Silver medal in the spotlights.
The 22-year old Italian ace shooter Niccolò Campriani, who had finished on the podium of the 10m Air Rifle Men competition just two days ago, started today’s final match in the top-3, with a qualification score of 1174 points, tied to the 2010 World Champion Peter Sidi, a 32-year old rifle master ranked first in the world in this event.
The two opponents duelled throughout the whole final match. Tied at the beginning of the round, they shot head and head right to the last shot, when it was the Hungarian shooter who grabbed the Silver medal with only 0.2 of advantage on Campriani.
“I prepared especially for the Three Positions event!” Sidi said after winning a Bronze medal in the 10m Air Rifle Men event, two days ago. And he kept his words, by winning today’s Silver with a total score of 1271.8 points.
Campriani finished in third place, securing the Bronze medal with a total score of 1271.6 points. Fighting right to the end of the match, he turned out to be only 0.2 points shy of climbing upon the second step of the podium.
Austria’s Mario Knoegler, 31, starting the round with 1173 points, one point behind Sidi and Campriani, fought for a spot on the podium throughout the first part of the match. The Austrian athlete had almost tied his opponents in second place, when he fired a frustrating 6.3 on his sixth shot, falling down in seventh place where he eventually closed his match with a total score of 1268.9 points.
Overtaking him, USA’s Jason Parker took the fourth place with 1270.1 points, while the home shooter Julian Justus (22, today’s youngest finalist) ended up in fifth with 1269.5 points after shooting-off Serfbia’s Nemanja Mirosavljev, today’s sixth.
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From the ISSF website:25M RAPID FIRE PISTOL MEN – RUSSIA’S EKIMOV WON THE TEST EVENT
A new competition format for the 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men was tested during this ISSF World Cup Final in Munich. Russia’s Leonid Ekimov won the test match, followed by Italy Mazzetti and Spain’s Llames.
Today’s 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men final taking place at the 2010 ISSF World Cup Final in Munich turned into a test event for some innovations that might be adopted in this event in the future.
The World Cup Finalists passed through the usual qualification series, entering then a new Semi-Final stage to select the top-6 shooters who moved then to the Final stage.
Both in the Semi-Final and in the Final, a new “hit-or-miss” scoring system was adopted instead of the usual “points&decimals” system. Any shot scoring 9.7 or better was counted as a “Hit” (1 point). Any shot under that value as a “Miss” (0 points).
The Final was conducted on three layouts (three different 5-target units), with two athletes sharing each layout and shooting alternatively on the same 5-target unit.
After four series of five shots, the finalist with the lowest number of hits had to leave the match, while the others kept on fighting for the medals. From there on, after each series, the shooter with the lowest score had to leave the match, until the final duel for the Gold medal.
It was the 2008 Olympic Bronze medallist Christian Reitz the first to leave this test Final after the first four series, with 11 hits out of 20 shots. The 2010 World Champion Alexei Klimov of Russia (35), followed him after the fifth series, with 12 hits out of 25 shots. After the third eliminatory series (30 shots), it was Japan’s Akaiama who went out with 19 hits, ending up in fourth place.
Then, only three shooters remained in competition fighting for the Gold: Italy’s Riccardo Mazzetti, Spain’s Jeorge Llames and Russia’s Leonid Ekimov.
While Mazzetti hit 4 out of 5 targets, totalizing 24 hits, Leonid Ekimov surprised the audience with a perfect final series of the 5 hits. With 22 hits out of 35 shots Spain’s Llamez could not stand their scores, and had to leave the match claiming the Bronze medal.
In the following duel for the highest step of the podium, it was the young Russian pistol shooter Ekimov who secured the brightest medal, with a total score of 31 hits out of 35 shots, leaving Mazzetti the Silver medal with a total of 28 hits.
“Of course I am happy about this Gold medal!” said Ekimov right after the final “But I am not that sure about this new format…”
“I think the new rules are great!” answered the Silver medallist Mazzetti “There’s some extra pressure, we shoot all together, and everybody knows how the other finalists are performing… I think this could be a good way to promote this event and to make it more enjoyable for the spectators.”
“It’s a challenge” Mazzetti added “But we are sportsman, and we are here because we like such challenges.”
“It was just a test match, but I believe the test proved that there is a chance to make the Rapid Fire Pistol event more exciting for the audience” The ISSF Vice President Gary Anderson said after the final “The reaction of the spectators, and the TV footage of this final, tell us that this event turned into an outstanding show.
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And then the final bits.
From the ISSF website:CHAMPIONS TROPHY: SIUS ASCOR AWARDS THE BEST SHOOTERS
Two ladies, USA’s Jamie Beyerle and Gerogia’s Nino Salukvadze won the traditional Champions Trophy that closed the 2010 ISSF World Cup Final in Munich.
The traditional Champion Trophy sponsored by SIUS Ascor closed the 2010 ISSF World Championship in Rifle and Pistol events in Munich.
Only the medallists of the 10 Olympic events were eligible to participate in this classic money-price competition, where the usual rules of shooting are subverted: the audience is indeed pushed by the speaker to be “as loud as possible” while cheering, no matter what that means for the shooters’ concentration.
The formula of the Champions Trophy is as easy as challenging: put the top shooters of the world on a 10-meter line, let them choose between an air pistol and an air rifle, and let them shoot in a direct-elimination round.
After four competition shot, the athlete with the lowest score goes out, and from there on one shooter has to leave the match after every shot. When only two athletes remain on the firing line, the total goes back to zero, and three more shots are fired to decide the winner of the Champions Trophy.
5000 Euros wait for the winners, thanks to the SIUS ASCOR Company, the targets and results provider for this competition, which sponsors the match.
It was USA’s Jamie Beyerle who won the Air Rifle Champions Trophy, outdoing the home shooter Sonja Pfeilschifter. Beyerle (winner of the 50m Rifle 3 Positions Women event) had won also the last Champions Trophy’s edition at the 2009 ISSF World Cup Final in Wuxi.
At the same time, between the pistol shooters, the SIUS ASCOR award went to Nino Salukvadze of Gerogia, who had won the 25 Pistol Women event just yesterday. “The Champions trophy is simply the best way to close an ISSF World Cup Final!”
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And also from the ISSF website:RUSSIA LED THE WOLRD CUP FINAL'S MEDAL STANDINGS
The Russian Federation won four out of ten Olympic shooting events, during this year's ISSF World Cup Final in Munich.
The 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men final closed this year’s ISSF World Cup Final in Rifle and Pistol events, which took place on the lines of the 1972 Olympic Shooting Range of Munich (GER) between the 26th and the 29th of October.
The Russian Federation finished atop of the medal standing of this conclusive World Cup Stage, with an impressive total of five medals (four gold and one silver) out of ten shooting events. The United States of America followed in second place with two gold medals and one bronze, while it was Italy to finish on the third step of the podium with one gold, two silver and one bronze medals. The People’s Republic of China, traditionally one of the strongest competitors of the ISSF World Cup Series, did not participate in this final, due to a conjunctiva infection that kept the team in Beijing.
The ISSF World Cup Final closed this year’s ISSF World Cup Series in Rifle and Pistol events. The ISSF World Cup Series will be back next March, when the first 2011 stage will kick off in Sydney, Australia.
There, the “Road to London” will be opened, as each 2011 ISSF World Cup Stage will award to the best performers Olympic Quota Places, the entrance tickets to the 2012 Olympic Games.
Nation|Gold|Silver|Bronze|Total
RUS|4|1|0|5
USA|2|0|1|3
ITA|1|2|1|4
GER|1|1|2|4
BLR|1|1|0|2
GEO|1|0|0|1
HUN|0|1|1|2
CZE|0|1|0|1
KAZ|0|1|0|1
NOR|0|1|0|1
SRB|0|1|0|1
FRA|0|0|2|2
JPN|0|0|2|2
ESP|0|0|1|1
TOTAL|10|10|10|30
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From the web:Americans Do Well at ISSF World Cup in Munich
Top airgun and smallbore shooters competed this past week at the 2010 ISSF World Cup Rifle and Pistol Finals. In this season-ending World Cup, Russia led the pack of nations, taking an impressive total of five medals (four gold and one silver) out of ten shooting events. The USA was second with two gold medals and one bronze, while Italy finished third with one gold, two silver and one bronze.CLICK HERE for the complete match results posted on the ISSF-sports.org website.
Team USA put on a solid performance with three medals and six finals appearances. U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Daryl Szarenski won the Men’s 50m Free Pistol competition, finishing 5.5 points above the silver medalist. In an interview with the ISSF’s Marco Dalla Dea, Szarenski said, “This has definitively been my best season ever!”
American Jamie Beyerle won the gold medal in Women’s 3-Position, 50m Rifle event. During the match, Beyerle shot an amazing 590 points to qualify in first place for the finals. Jamie also won the Air Rifle Champions Trophy (with a €500 prize from Sius Ascor), outdoing Germany’s Sonja Pfeilschifter. This was the second straight Champions Trophy for Beyerle, who also took the prize at the 2009 ISSF World Cup Final in Wuxi. In addition to her Gold Medal in 50m 3P, Jamie won Bronze in the Women’s 10m Air Rifle event.
Sgt. 1st Class Jason Parker was 1.5 points shy of medal contention in Men’s 50m Rifle Three Position. Parker finished fourth with a match score of 1170 points and the highest scoring final of 100.1 points. Teammate Sgt. Joseph Hein finished seventh in the Men’s 50m Rifle Prone event. Hein was in a four-way tie for third headed into the final, but fell short of a medal with a 101.8 point final for 698.8 total points.0 -
From the web:Americans Do Well at ISSF World Cup in Munich
Top airgun and smallbore shooters competed this past week at the 2010 ISSF World Cup Rifle and Pistol Finals. In this season-ending World Cup, Russia led the pack of nations, taking an impressive total of five medals (four gold and one silver) out of ten shooting events. The USA was second with two gold medals and one bronze, while Italy finished third with one gold, two silver and one bronze.CLICK HERE for the complete match results posted on the ISSF-sports.org website.
Team USA put on a solid performance with three medals and six finals appearances. U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Daryl Szarenski won the Men’s 50m Free Pistol competition, finishing 5.5 points above the silver medalist. In an interview with the ISSF’s Marco Dalla Dea, Szarenski said, “This has definitively been my best season ever!”
American Jamie Beyerle won the gold medal in Women’s 3-Position, 50m Rifle event. During the match, Beyerle shot an amazing 590 points to qualify in first place for the finals. Jamie also won the Air Rifle Champions Trophy (with a €500 prize from Sius Ascor), outdoing Germany’s Sonja Pfeilschifter. This was the second straight Champions Trophy for Beyerle, who also took the prize at the 2009 ISSF World Cup Final in Wuxi. In addition to her Gold Medal in 50m 3P, Jamie won Bronze in the Women’s 10m Air Rifle event.
Sgt. 1st Class Jason Parker was 1.5 points shy of medal contention in Men’s 50m Rifle Three Position. Parker finished fourth with a match score of 1170 points and the highest scoring final of 100.1 points. Teammate Sgt. Joseph Hein finished seventh in the Men’s 50m Rifle Prone event. Hein was in a four-way tie for third headed into the final, but fell short of a medal with a 101.8 point final for 698.8 total points.0 -
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