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Beijing’s Olympic Bronze medallist Munkhbayar DORJSUREN, shooting for Germany, won the 25m Pistol Women event at the ISSF World Cup stage in Milan, Italy, with 789.9 (589+200.9) points.

DORJSUREN, 39, secured her second medal of the season, following the Bronze won in Munich last week. The German athlete can be considered an expert of the Milan’s shooting range: here DORJSUREN has won five different ISSF World Cup Gold medals, two Silvers and one Bronze, in the last 12 years.

Managing the 5-point qualification’s head start she had, DORJSUREN kept behind her the Chinese shooter YUAN Jing, who finished in second place.

In spite of shooting the highest score in the final round (205.4 points), the 22-year old Chinese shooter finished in second securing Silver with a score of 789.4 points, due to a lower qualification score of 584 points. She had won Gold at the third world cup stage of the year in Munich, Germany.

Lalita YAUHLEUSKAYA of Australia secured today’s Bronze medal by climbing thanks to an excellent final round of 205.2 points. The 45-year old athlete won today’s medal with a total score of 785.2 (580+205.2) points, securing her second podium following the Silver medal she won at April’s world cup stage of Beijing.

The 1988 Olympic Champion, Georgia’s Nino SALUKVADZE placed in fourth with 783.9 (584+199.9), preceding the 2004 Olympic Silver medallist Lenka MARUSKOVA who placed in fifth with 782.7 (581+ 201.7) points.

The 28-year old Spanish shooter Sonia FRANQUET placed in sixth by outdoing 52.8 to 50.2 points Bulgaria’s Maria GROZDEVA in a shoot-off.

Gold to China’s HE Zhaohui
HE Zhaohui of the People’s Republic of China, 19, won his second consecutive world cup medal by winning the 50m Rifle Three Positions men event at the ISSF World Cup of Milan.

The keen Chinese shooter, who had debuted in the ISSF World Cup series in Beijing last April, left no chances to his opponents, qualifying in first place with 1181 points and 8 points of advantage over the other finalists.

With a fantastic final round of 103.8 points, for a total score of 1284.8 points, HE won his second consecutive world cup Gold medal in this event following the one he won in Munich last week.

Italy celebrated Campriani’s first podium
Silver went to the Italian shooter Niccolò CAMPRIANI, 21-year old, who had never made into a 50m Rifle 3 Positions Men final round before. The young home shooter qualified in second place with 1173 points, winning Silver with a total score of 1269.6 points after an intense duel against Sweden’s JOHANSON.

Bronze to Sweden’s Johanson
Anders JOHANSON, 39, entered today his first ISSF final round ever. Facing the pressure of the match, the Swedish athlete battled right to the last shot against Italy’s Campriani in the fight for Silver. Finishing with 1268.5 (1172+96.5) points, 0.9 points less then what scored by the Italian finalist, the Johanson placed in third and pocketed Bronze, his first international medal.

Behind them, the second Chinese finalist, Lei ZHANG, climbed from the seventh to the fourth position, closing the match with a total of 1265.4 points. Following in fifth place, Russia’s Alexei KAMENSKI shot a total of 1264.9 points. At the same time, Norway’s Ole Magnus BAKKEN finished in sixth place with 1264.6 points after scoring a final round of 92.6 points.

The next final
The next event, the 50m Rifle 3 Positions Women final round, will tale place tomorrow at 12.00 Milan time (GMT/UTC+2).

The first time finalist Lukas GRUNDER surprised everybody at today’s 10m Air Pistol men event, claiming Gold with a record qualification score. The 19-year old Swiss shooter, who had never won an ISSF medal before, walked into the final with an equalled Junior World Record of 588 points, with a safe advantage of 5 points on the other finalists.

In spite of his lack of experience, the young GRUNDER did not hesitate and shot a fantastic match firing 103.1 points for a total score of 691.1 points, winning his first ISSF world cup medal.

GRUNDER turned out to be unreachable: Ukraine’s Serhiy KUDRIYA closed the match about nine points behind him, securing Silver with 682.2 (583+99.2) points.

The 26-year old Ukraine shooter, forty-second in the world rank, had never won an ISSF medal before, and he had taken part in an ISSF World Cup only once, at the 2008 Rio de Janeiro’s stage, when he had placed seventh.

Another first-time world cup finalist, Russia’s Denis KOULAKOV, 29, secured Bronze by placing in third with 680.6 (582+98.6) points. He was followed by two young athletes, the 18-year old Chinese shooter ZHANG Bin and the 23-year old Sergey CHERVYAKOVSKIY, who placed in fourth and fifth place, respectively.

The expert 28-year old Polish shooter Wojciech KNAPIK followed in sixth place with 678.6 points, fourth tenths more then what scored by the Olympic finalist of Beijing Brian BEAMAN, seventh with 98.2 points.

The 2008 Olympic Champion of Beijing GUO Wenjun, 24, from China, won the 10m Air Pistol women final, shooting her first medal of the year and qualifying for the ISSF World Cup Final in Rifle and Pistol events.

The Chinese shooter, who had won also the 2008 edition of the ISSF World Cup stage of Milan, placed in first with a score of 489.9 points. The Chinese shooter had qualified for today’s final match in the lead, with a qualification score of 392 points, and shot a final of 97.9 points gaining the highest step of the podium.

While GUO shot in the lead with a safe advantage on the followers, her teammate HU Jun fought right to the last shot against the Polish shooter Miroslawa SAGUN LEWANDOWSKA to secure Silver.

HU, 30-year old, winner of the second world cup stage of this season held in Beijing, finished in second winning Silver with 488.5 (388+100.6) points.
She preceded Poland’s SAGUN LEWANDOWSKA, who placed in third winning Bronze with a total score of 486.0 points. The Polish athlete shot the highest score in the final, 101.0 points, climbing from sixth place she had on the start list with a qualification score of 385 points.

Following in fourth place, the Olympic Champion of Seoul 1988, the Serbian shooter Jasna Sekaric, scored 483.6 points, and secured the fourth place by outdoing Spain’s Sonia FRANQUET 10.6 to 8.7 in a shoot-off.

Beijing’s Olympic Bronze medallist Nino SALUKVADZE climbed from the eighth to the sixth place, finishing with 482 (384+98) points. She was followed by the third Chinese shooter TONG Xin, seventh with 481.9 (386+95.9) points and by Serbia’s Zorana ARUNOVIC, eighth with 480.3 (386+94.3) points.