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Skeet Men Junior – 15-year old Slavicek (CZE) won by one target

August 18th, 2009 No comments

20090816_SK125junWiNNERnews_001Czech Republic’s Milos Slavicek won the Skeet Men Junior competition, finishing in the lead with one target of advantage on his opponents.

Milos SLAVICEK of Czech Republic is the new Skeet Men Junior World Champion. The 15-year old athlete won today’s competition with a total score of 122 hits out of 125 targets, finishing in first place with one target of advantage on his followers.

SLAVICEK, one of the youngest competitors taking part in this 2009 ISSF Shotgun World Championship, had never participated in a world-level competition, before. The 15-year old Czech athlete debuted on the international scene at the European Championship of Osijek (CRO) twenty days ago, placing in 29th.

SLVAICEK left behind him the 2007 World Championship’s Silver and Bronze medallists Marcus SVENSSON of Sweden and Wilfred BLANCHARD of the USA (the 2007 Junior World Champion Anastasios CHAPESHIS did not come to defend his title).

Marcus SVENSSON finished in second place winning is second consecutive Junior World Championship Silver medal with a total score of 121 +4 hits. The Swedish shooter outdid 4 targets to 3 the Italian athlete Angelo MOSCARIELLO in a shoot-off for the second step of the podium. MOSCARIELLO finished in third, grabbing Silver with a total of 121 +3 targets.

Vesa PIETARILA of Finland, 20, who was leading after the first 75 targets, closed his competition with a last series of 23 hits out of 25 targets. Any single drop can be fatal at the World Championship: the Finnish shooter slid down in the placements, landing in fourth place with a total score of 120 hits out of 125 targets, missing to grab podium just by one clay.

USA’s Wilfed BLANCHARD (Bronze medallist at the last World Championship) ended up in fifth place with a total score of 119 hits, followed by Sweden’s Stefan NILSSON (the 2009 European Junior Champion) who closed in sixth place with a total of 117 targets after beating Russia’s Mikhail DOVGAL in a shoot-off.

Teams: Gold to Czech Republic

SLAVICEK’s Czech Republic won the team Gold medal with an overall score of 353 hits (Milos SLAVICEK, JAkub TOMECEK, Jakub NOVOTA).

Team Silver went to the United States of America (Wilfred BLANCHARD, Jon McGRATH and Chris HAVER), with an combined score of 349 targets. Sweden placed in third winning team Bronze thanks to the 348 hits scored by Marcus SVENSSON, Stefan NILSSON and Robin GUSTAFSSON.

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Skeet Men Junior – Pietarila (FIN) leaded Day-1

August 16th, 2009 No comments

20090815_Sk125J_Day1Pietarila has one target of advantage on his followers. Tomorrow, the last 50 targets will decide the podium of the Skeet Men Junior event.

Vesa PIETARILA of Finland leads the Skeet Men Junior event, with one target of advantage on his followers. The 20-year old Finnish athletes only dropped two targets throughout today’s three qualification series, ending up the Day-1 with a score of 73 hits out of 75 targets.

PIETARILA, who took part in two ISSF World Cup Stages shooting neck and neck with Seniors this year, will have to fight to defend his one-target leadership throughout tomorrow’s last two series. Behind him, six shooters tied with a score of 72 hits. (Check the rankins after Day-1).

The Skeet Men Junior competition will continued tomorrow, when the last 50 targets will be thrown.

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Skeet Men – Shomin (RUS) shattered all the first 75 targets

August 16th, 2009 No comments

20090815_Sk125_Day1Russia’s Shomin leads after the first 75 qualification targets. Hancock, Brovold and Achilleos follow him. Tomorrow, the last 50 targets and the final.

The two-time ISSF World Championship Silver medallist Valery SHOMIN, 38, from Russia, ended up the first qualification day of the Skeet Men event in the lead. SHOMIN concluded the first three qualification series with a perfect score of 75 hits out of 75 targets.

The Russian shooter leads with only one target of advantage over his opponents. Following him, the 2008 Olympic Champion Vincent HANCOCK of the USA and the Qatari shooter Nasser AL-ATTIYA ranked in second with a score of 74 hits out 75 targets.

The last 50 qualification targets and the Skeet Men Final will take place tomorrow, and SHOMIN will have to shoot at his best to defend his narrow head-start advantage.

Next to HANCOCK and AL-ATTIYA, eleven shooters tied with a qualification score of 73 hits out of 75 targets. Between them, the recently-awarded European Champion, Norway’s Tore BROVOLD, who walked into this ISSF World Championship just twenty days after shooting a record score of 150 out of 150 targets at the last European Championships of Osijek (CRO).

The title defender, Georgios ACHILLEOS of Cyprus, is also not far from SHOMIN. The Cypriot athlete scored 73 targets, and he still has 50 qualification targets to shoot.

Tomorrow’s 50 qualification targets will determinate the six shooters that will proceed to the medal match. The Final round which will assign the Skeet Men World Champion title will take place tomorrow afternoon, at 4.30 PM.

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Double Trap Men Junior – Russia, Italy and USA on the podium

August 15th, 2009 No comments

20090813_DT150JRussia’s Miroshnichenko won the Double Trap Junior Gold. Russia, Italy and USA climbed on the team podium.

The 20-year old Russian athlete Vladimir MIROSHNICHENKO won today’s Double Trap Men Junior competition, securing the individual Gold medal and lifting the Russian Junior team on the highest step of the team podium.

The young Russian shooter won today’s competition with a total score of 143 out of 150 targets, leaving his opponents four targets behind him.

MIROSHNICHENKO, a three –time European Championship medallist, had competed both in the 2006 and 2007 ISSF World Championships, but he had never made it into the top-3 so far.

The Silver and the Bronze medal were assigned through a three-way shoot-off between Italy’s GASPARINI and CHIANESE and USA’s William CRAWFORD.

The 16-year old American shooter CRAWFORD, at his first international experience, turned out to be the first to miss in the shoot-off, lading in fourth place with a total score of 139 +4 targets.

Italy’s Davide GASPARINI, 19-year old, at his first world-level competition, outdid his teammate Alessandro CHIANESE, winning Silver with a total of 139 +7 targets.

The 19-year old Italian athlete CHIANESE placed in third winning Bronze. CHIANESE, Junior Silver medallist at the last European Championship of Osijek (CRO) two weeks ago, had taken part also in the 2007 World Championship in Nicosia, where he had placed in eighth.

Junior Teams podium: Russia, USA and Italy
MIROSHNICHENKO’s top result pushed the Russian Federation Junior team in the lead. Russia (Vladimir MIROSHNICHENKO, Artem NEKRASOV and Maksim LAZAREV) shot the team Gold with a total score of 413 targets.

Following in second, the United States of America won the Junior team Silver medal thanks to the overall result of 407 targets scored by William CRAWFORD, Derek HALDEMAN and Bryce GEARHART.

Alessandro CHIANESE, Davide GASPARINI and Marco VANNUCCI of Italy won the team Bronze medal with a total of 402 hits.

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Double Trap Men – D’Aniello won his second, consecutive, title.

August 15th, 2009 No comments

20090813_DT150Italy’s Olympic Silver medallist confirmed to be world’s number one by winning the Double Trap Final match at the ISSF World Championship of Maribor.

Italy’s Francesco D’ANIELLO won his second consecutive World Champion title, confirming the results of the 2007 World Championship of Nicosia (CYP).

Beijing’s Olympic Silver medallist D’ANIELLO, 40, won today’s final match with a total score of 190 hits. After qualifying for the medal match in the lead with 146 his, the Italian shooter score 44 out of 50 targets in the final round, finishing on the highest step of the podium with four targets of advantage on his followers

“I won the European Championship two weeks ago, and now I confirmed the 2007 World Champion title. I wonted to be the number one, and I made it, I feel great!” said D’ANIELLO after his last double. The Italian shooter had won the European Championships of Osijek just two weeks ago, and walked into this competition as the reigning World Champion.

The 40-year old Champion started competing four years ago.
D’ANIELLO apparently did not realize he was in the lead right to the last double. “I heard the others were missing, and I knew I had some targets of advantage. I relaxed a little bit, but I did not know how far they were. Shooting the last two targets, I saw my teammates jumping up, and I understood I had made it!”

D’ANIELLO, 40-year old, started competing in 2005, at the age of 36 years. In the last four years, he climbed the international rankings, winning two ISSF World Cup stages, the Olympic Silver in Beijing, and two World Championships Gold medals. “My 5-year old son told me “dad, break ‘all the targets”, I did not brake ‘em all, but I am glad I am bringing him back a medal…”

D’Aniello faced USA, today’s strongest team.
Fighting for a spot on the podium, D’ANIELLO met three American athletes in the final round, Jeffrey HOLGUIN, Walton ELLER and Joshua RICHMOND, winners of the team Gold with an equalled World Record of 430 targets. “The USA team is really strong. They are excellent shooters. Facing the Olympic Champion Eller and his teammate Holguin in the final brought me back to the Olympic Final of Beijing. I faced the best shooters of the world, today. It has not been easy….” D’ANIELLO concluded.

Italy (D’ANIELLO, Claudio FRANZONI, Daniele DI SPIGNO placed in second winning the team Silver with an overall score of 421 targets, while team Bronze went to Great Britain (Steven SCOTT, Richard FAULDS, Steven WALTON) with 418 targets.

Silver medal to USA’s Holguin
Silver went to USA’s Jeffery HOLGUIN, 30-year old. HOLGUIN ended up with a total score of 186 targets, and secured the medal by winning 2 to 0 a shoot-off against the Chinese finalist WANG Nan. HOLGUIN, a 2008 Olympic finalist of Beijing, had won his last ISSF medal in 2008, when he had shot a Bronze at the ISSF World Cup stage of Kerrville (USA).

WANG Nan, 31, from the People’s Republic of China, grabbed Bronze with a total score of 186 +0 targets, after loosing the shoot-off for Silver against USA’s Jeffery HOLGUIN.

Olympic Champion Eller finished in fourth
Beijing’s Olympic Champion, Glenn Eller, finished in fourth place just one target behind the medallists, with a total score of 185 hits. The 27-year old American champion qualified for the final with a score of 143 targets, dropping then 8 targets during the final match. “The weather changed, but it did not affect our match. Targets made it difficult. The targets they used for this final were really hard to break, I am 100% sure about it.”

Today’s youngest finalist, Eller’s 23-year old temmate Joshua RICHMOND (USA) placed in fifth with 183 +5 targets after outdoing India’s Ronjan SODHI in a shoot-off.

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