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The young Italian shooter topped her success at the last European Championship by claiming the World Champion title at the ISSF Shotgun World Championship in Maribor.

17-year old Italian shooter Jessica ROSSI became the new Trap Women World Champion, shooting-off the Olympic Champion Satu MAKELA-NUMMELA and the 2001 World Champion Irina LARICHEVA.

ROSSI played an outstanding competition, making it into the final in fifth position with a qualification score of 71 targets and then climbing to the top with 21 hits in the final, for a total score of 92 targets.

“I won the European Championship just two weeks ago, I did not expect to win again today!” Said Jessica ROSSI, the young phenomenon who collected a continental and a world title within fifteen days.

“I started shooting when I was 12″
“I started shooting when I was 12-year old, my parents introduced me to shooting, but I had never though I could reach these results, in those days…” the Italian shooter said right after the last competition shot. This year, next to the World and European titles, ROSSI won two ISSF World Cup Silver medals in Cairo and Minsk.

ROSSI had started this morning’s qualification with a weak round, and she had to pass through a shoot-off to proceed to the medal match “I don’t know what happened this morning. I started in the worst way. After the second qualification series I was far from the lead. I told to my self I had to shoot a 25 in the last series, and I made it”.

Rossi’s next aim: the Games
ROSSI climbed up from the fifth place after the qualification up to the first place shooting precisely, while her opponents missed numerous clays “I tried to concentrate, I did not watch the others, I focused in myself. I did not even understand that the other finalists were missing… I cannot believe this is true!”

The 17-year old Italian shooter is now looking to the future. Moving the focus to London 2012, Jessica said to be ready for the next challenge she is going to face starting from 2010 “I will try my best to qualify for the next Games. After the European and the World Championships, I am staring at London!”

Laricheva (RUS) and Makela-Nummela (FIN) in second and third place.
Climbing to the podium, ROSSI overtook two of the world’s most experienced Trap shooters.
The Olympic Champion of Beijing 2008 Satu MAKELA-NUMMELA, 38, from FINLAND, started the match with the highest qualification score of 74 hits, equalling a World Record. During the final, she lost her concentration, dropping ten targets and finishing with a disappointing total score of 89 (74+15) hits and a Bronze medal.
The 2001 World Champion Irina LARICHEVA of Russia, 44-year old, scored 17 targets in the final, for a total score of 90 (73+17) hits, and placed in second winning Silver.

San Marino’s Alessandra PERILLI, a medal winner of the 2009 ISSF World Cup in San Marino, finished in fourth with a score of 88 +3 targets, outdoing in a shoot-off Lebanon’s Ray BASSIL, fifth with 88 +2 targets.

The Olympic Silver medallist of Beijing, Zuzana STEFECEKOVA of Slovakia, 25, finished her competition in sixth place with a total score of 87 (71+16) targets.

Rossi lifted Italy on the team podium with a new World Record
Guided by the young champion ROSSI, the Italian team (Jessica ROSSI, Deborah GELISIO and Giulia IANNOTTI) ended up in first place, earning the team Gold medal with a total score of 211 targets, a new World Record.

Great Britain’s Shona MARSHALL, Charlotte KERWOOD and Abbey BURTON secured the team Silverw with 207 targets, while the team Bronze went to the smallest Republic of the World, San Marino (Alessandra PERILLI, Daniela DEL DIN, Francesca SPADONI), that finsihed in third with an overall score of 204 hits.

Germany’s Christine Brinker won her second, consecutive, Wolrd Champion title in the Skeet Women event.

The German shooter Christine BRINKER won the Skeet Women final, defending the World Champion title she had won at the last World Championship in Cyprus, two years ago.

BRINKER, an Olympic Bronze medallist of Beijing 2008, won Bronze at this year’s ISSF World Cup Stage in San Marino and at the European Championships in Osijek. She was not stepping on the highest step of an ISSF podium since 2007.

“I am back in good shape. I had some problems at the beginning of this season, I have been hill for a while. But I trained and I prepared this competition and… it’s just great to confirm my title!” Said the confirmed World Champion Brinker.

“I suffered at the beginning of the season then, two weeks ago, I shot quite well at the Europeansm, where I shot Bronze. Here I gave my best, I am really satisfied about my scores.” Continued the 28-year old BRINKER, who shot today’s Gold medal with a total score of 95 hits out of 100 targets.

The German shooter qualified for the final round with a score of 72 hits, climbing then the scoreboard during the final round with 23 targets. BRINKER took advantage of her opponent’s mistakes, overtaking the qualification’s leader JIEWCHALOEMMIT.

“This is not a difficult shooting range, but we could not train on the final range. And on this range has a slightly different background. This is way we all dropped so many targets during the final: the background made it complicate. I had won a World Cup shooting on this range in 2006, this helped me a little bit,” commented BRINKER about the numerous targets dropped by the other finalists during the match.

“I am going to be quite busy, now. I am getting married in September!” Concluded BRINKER, who will marry the German shooter Tino WENZEL the next 9th of September.

The Silver medal went to the Thai shooter Sutiya JIEWCHALOEMMIT, 23-year old, the Silver medal winner of this year’s ISSF World Cup in Cairo. The Thai shooter qualified for the final round with the highest score of 72 hits, but during the match she lost four targets, ending up in second place with a total of 94 hits.

The Italian Katiuscia SPADA followed in third, winning Bronze with a total of 93 +3 targets after passing through a shoot-off against Russia’s Olga PANARINA. SPADA concluded a positive season, centring the World Championship podium after winning a Bronze at this year’s ISSF World Cup in Minsk and a Silver medal at the last European Championship in Osijek.

The Olympic Champion of Beijing, the Italian athlete Chiara CAINERO, made it to the final round but did not find her way to the podium. After starting with great determination, the Italian champion missed on the fourth and the fifth station, sliding down in the scoreboard and eventually landing in fifth place with a total score of 92 targets. She had claimed her last international Gold medal just two months ago, winning the ISSF World Cup stage in San Marino.

Danka BARTEKOVA of Slovakia entered the final match passing through a shoot-off, and closed her final in sixth place with a total score of 89 hits.

Teams: Russia in the lead
The Russian Federation’s team shot the team Gold of the Skeet Women event. Olga PANARINA, Svetlana DEMINA and Nadezda KONOVALOVA shot a total of 211 targets.

Following them two targets behind, the Italian team (Katiuscia SPADA, Chiara CAINERO and Cristina VITALI) won the Silver medal with a total score of 209 hits.

BARTEKOVA’s Slovakia (Danka BARTEKOVA, Lenka BARTEKOVA, Monika ZEMKOVA) shot the team Bronze with 204 targets.

Two world records were shattered during today’s Skeet Women Junior competition.

An odds-defying final crowned Slovakia’s Marian Kovacocy as the new Trap Men World Champion. Kovacocy outdid Italy’s Fabbrizzi at the very last shot, winning Gold with a total score of 146 hits.

Italy’s Valerio GRAZINI won the Trap Men Junior competition, securing the first Gold medal of the 2009 ISSF Shotgun World Championship of Maribor.