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10m Air Pistol Man- Swiss’s Grunder shot a record match

May 24th, 2009
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A world cup first time finalist, Lukas GRUNDER, 19, equalled the Junior World Record, leading the final match and winning his first gold medal in this event.

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.

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10m Air Pistol Women- Olympic Champion GUO on the podium next to her teammate HU

May 24th, 2009
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Beijing’s Olympic Champion Guo Wenjun (CHN) won the 10m Air Pistol women final with a consistent advantage on her followers, preceding her teammate Hu Jun. Bronze went to Poland’s Sagun Lewandowska, who fired the highest score of today’s final.

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.

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ISSF Target 10M Air Pistol

May 4th, 2009
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Dimensions
Ring Diameter Color
10 11.5 mm (±0.1 mm Black
9 27.5 mm (±0.2 mm) Black
8 43.5 mm (±0.2 mm) Black
7 59.5 mm (±0.5 mm) Black
6 75.5 mm (±0.5 mm)) White
5 91.5 mm (±0.5 mm) White
4 107.5 mm (±0.5 mm) White
3 123.5 mm (±0.5 mm) White
2 139.5 mm (±0.5 mm White
1 155.5 mm (±0.5 mm) White

Minimum visible size of target card: width: 170mm height: 170mm

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10m Air Pistol Woman – Gold to China, Silver to India’s Heena Sidhu

April 21st, 2009
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10m Air Pistol China’s HU Jun won today’s match with 490.5 points (390 +100.5). The pistol shooter had won a silver medal at the 2006 ISSF World Championships of Zagreb and a bronze at that year’s world cup final held in Granada. She had shot her last podium in 2007, when she won the world cup stage in Sydney.

Silver went to today’s youngest finalist Heena SIDHU, 19, from India, who scored the highest final climbing from the fifth place with 486.8 points (quail: 385+ final: 101.8). “I can’t believe it, I can’t really comment on this final!” Said the young Indian shooter, who had never won World Cup medal before.

“I feel numb at the moment!” Heena exclaimed in a smile. “This is my second participation in a world cup. I have been competing in Changwon last week, but I did not shot a great competition there. I was happy to be into the final match, today, but actually I did not expect a medal…”

“It’s amazing to be standing where the games took place” concluded the Indian shooter while speaking at the microphones of the ISSF TV “Now I am planning to come to the world cup stage held in Munich, next May…”

Today’s Bronze went to the Czech champion Lenka MARUSKOVA, 24, third with 485.9 pts (385+100.9). The Czech shooter keeps on securing prestigious placements, after the Bronze she has grabbed at the European Championships of Prague, last February.

Lalita YAUHLEUSKAYA of Australia (on the podium of the 25m pistol women event a couple of days ago), lost the duel against Maruskova and missed today’s award ceremony after firing a frustrating last shot of 8.2 points. She placed in fourth with 483.0 pts (386+97.0).

Belarus’ Viktoria CHAIKA placed in fifth with 482.8 pts (387+95.8); Korea’s LEE Ho Lim, silver medal winner at the previous world cup stage held in Changwon, finished in sixth with 482.6 pts (382+100.6), after squeezing into the eight-shooters final by winning a shoot-off against China’s Xin TONG.

The second Chinese finalist SHENG Jie placed seventh 481.9 pnts (384+97.9), preceding France Celine GOBERVILLE, eighth with 479.0 pts (385+94.0).

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10m Air Pistol History

March 31st, 2009
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The first ISSF Air Pistol championship was held in 1970. It was a 40 shot course of fire for both the men and the women. In 1982 the men’s course was increased to 60 shots. In 1988 the 10m Air Pistol event first entered the Olympic Games.

The Course of Fire for men is 60 shots in one hour and 45 minutes, each shot placed on a separate target at a range of 10 Meters.

Women have one hour and 15 minutes for 40 shots.

For World-class events the targets are either Electronic; or for paper targets scored by target scoring machines. In clubs or competitions without automatic scoring facilities, sometimes groups of 2, 5 or 10 rounds are fired at a single target. The ISSF dictates the target square should be no less than 17cm x 17cm; the 7,8,9 and 10 rings are black with the 10 ring a mere 11.5 mm across.

The top eight competitors from the main match progress to the “Olympic Final” in which 10 more shots are individually fired and scored, with a maximum of 75 seconds allowed per shot. At the end of each shot, the scores are announced. The score for these 10 shots is marked in tenths of a point and the total added to the first score to make the final result. Even at club level each shot is fired on a separate target.

A Perfect Match Score would be 600 + 109 for a total of 709. However, scoring over 580 in the first round can be considered world class. To date nobody has achieved a perfect score in a major championship or the Olympic Games.

Modern World-class Air Pistols fire a 4.5mm (.177) caliber lead pellet using compressed air from a detachable cylinder or one built into the pistol. Detachable cylinders are often filled from a SCUBA diving tank for the PreCharged Pneumatic Air Guns (PCP) or a similar tank of CO2. Guns with integral cylinders usually contain a charging handle to “pump” the normal atmosphere up to a pressure within the cylinder. The ISSF has several restrictions on the pistols used. Pistols must be fired single shot, with a trigger weight not lighter than 500 grams and 4.5mm (.177″) in caliber. The size and style of the grip, the weight of the pistol, the overall size of the gun, the type of sights, the width of the grip and length of the barrel are also limited. There are also limitations on the competitors’ clothing, shoes, and eyewear.

At the time of writing the average age of the top ten competitors in the ISSF World Ranking is 33, the majority are older with two in their mid 40s. The current world number one, from China, however is a mere 20!

Many Air Pistol shooters also participate in the 50m Pistol event(Free Pistol) .

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