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10m Air Rifle Man- ZHU claimed his fourth 2009 World Cup medal

May 24th, 2009
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World’s number one Air Rifle shooter, China’s ZHU Qinan, won the 10m Air Rifle Men final round by climbing from the sixth place. Following him, Artur AIVAZIAN of Ukraine and Beijing’s Olympic Bronze medallist HAKKINEN placed in second and third place, respectively.

Beijing’s Silver medallist ZHU Qinan won today’s 10m Air Rifle Men competition, the first final match of the ISSF World Cup in Rifle and Pistol event in Milan.

The 24-year old Chinese shooter defended his leadership in the World Ranking by shooting the highest final round of 103.1 points, for a total of 699.1 points, winning his second world cup’s Gold medal in this season following the gold he pocketed in Changwon, Korea. Zhu climbed the podium of all this year’s four ISSF World Cup stages, winning two Gold medals (Milan and Changwon), one Silver (Beijing) and a Bronze medal (Munich).

Silver went to Ukraine’s Artur AIVAZIAN, 36, who climbed up the scoreboard from the fifth place he had on the start list finishing in second place with 698.8 (596+102.8) points, missing the Gold medal only by three tenths of a point.

AIVAZIAN preceded on the podium the Olympic Bronze medallist Henri HAKKINEN of Finland, who placed in third by shooting an excellent final round of 102.6 points. The Finnish athlete qualified with 595 points, and he squeezed into the medal match by winning a five-way shoot-off with 53.1 points. In spite of his 15-year long international experience, the 28-year old Hakkinen had never won an ISSF World Cup’s medal before.

The rifle revelation of this season, the 21-year old Norwegian shooter Ole Magnus BAKKEN played a disappointing final round. After qualifying in first place with 596 points, Bakken shot final of 98.6 points landing in seventh place.

The European Champion, Italy’s Niccolò CAMPRIANI who was followed here in Milan by a number of spectators,  placed in fifth with 696.9 (596+100.9) points. He followed the 29-year old expert rifle shooter Mario KNOEGLER of Austria, fourth today with 697.5 (596+101.5) points.

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10m Air Rifle Man – Rikhter brought Israel’s flag on the podium

May 16th, 2009
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First time finalist Rikhter of Israel, 20-year old, shot a great competition winning Gold at the 10m Air Rifle Men final of the 2009 ISSF World Cup in Munich. Silver went to Hungary’s Sidi and Bronze to China’s Zhu Qinan.

Israel’s Rikhter shot Gold
Sergey RIKHTER of Israel, 20 year-old, surprised everybody by walking into today’s 10m Air Rifle final round with an outstanding qualification score of 599 points, only one point far from the world record. The Israeli shooter had never made into an ISSF world cup final round before, and his best placement so far had been a 17th place at the last ISSF World Cup in Beijing.

Rikhter turned out to be a strong competitor during the final round. The young shooter tried to manage his two-point head start on the followers, but the Hungarian champion Peter Sidi came closer to him shot after shot.  The close neck and neck finished in favour of the young Rikhter, who eventually won his first world cup gold medal with 701.7 points, and a slight margin of 2 tenths of a point on the following Sidi. “This is exciting, I did not expect to finish on the highest step of the podium: this is my fourht time in an international competition!” Rikhter said right after the final match.

104.5 points brought Silver to Peter Sidi.
Hungary’s Peter SIDI performed one of his best matches today, climbing the scoreboard thanks to great shots such as a 10.9 he fired on his fifth final-shot. “I have fired an outstanding final round, 104.5 points! Unfortunately it has not been enough to reach the Gold medal… I have been a little bit unlucky, I missed it by 2 tenths of a point!”

The Hungarian athlete overtook Belarus’ Bubnovic and Norway’s Hansen to move up in second place, and fought right to the last shot to reach Israel’s Rikhter. His efforts resulted in an extreme final of 104.5 points, so that Sidi claimed Silver with a total score of 701.5 (597+104.5) points.

Olympic Silver medallist Zhu grabbed Bronze:
Bronze went to Beijing’s Olympic Silver medallist ZHU Qinan of China, who struggled to get a spot on the podium. Starting in sixth position, he found his best shots in the second half of the match climbing up to the third place. The Chinese champion had a chance to move up in second place, but his last shot of 9.4 points pushed him in third where he eventually closed the round with a total score of 700.6 points (597+103.6 points)

“I keep on searching my best mood, after the Games. The Olympic final of Beijing dried me out, and I am still struggling with finals. Today’s match has been ok, at least the first nine competition shot were in the ten-ring” Said Zhu, who had walked into the last Games as the title-holder, and came out of Beijing’s final hall with a Silver around his neck.

Vitaly BUBNOVICH of Belarus finished in fourth place with a total score of 700.3 points. A shot in the ninth ring, an unlucky 9.4 he fired on his fourth competition shot, turned out to be a fatal mistake that pushed him out of the podium.

Next Finals:
The 10m Air Rifle Women final round will take place at 15.30 Munich time (GMT/UTC+2), this afternoon.

Follow the match on issf-sport.org!

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10m Air Rifle Man – Sidi in the lead, Zhu in a nightmare

April 18th, 2009
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20090418_AR60 Peter SIDI of Hungary shot the 10m Air Rifle Gold medal at the second ISSF world cup stage of the year, winning a close final with a score of 699.5 points (598+101.5). The three times Olympian played an excellent match in the spotlights of the Olympic final hall of the 2008 Games. “Great to be on the podium: I only had a few tenths of advantage on China’s ZHU Quinan. He was just tenths of point far from me, and I could see his scores on his monitor after every shot.” Said Sidi right after the match.

The 30-year old Hungarian shooter had finished out of the top-8 final round at the first World Cup stage, held in Changwon, Korea, last week. By shooting today’s gold, he secured his placed in the top 10 of the world ranking, and re-started this new season with an injection of self confidence “Changwon has been terrible for me: I got there only one day before the competition, and I had no chances to adapt to the time-change. – Explained Sidi – Here it has been different: I was ready, and I made it. My scores where ok, now we are moving to Europe for the next world cups, and I am planning to keep on shooting into finals.”

Silver went to China’s ZHU Qinan with 699.3 (597+102.3), who won 10.7 to 10.4 a shoot-off for the second place against Czech’s Vaclav HAMAN.
Zhu had started the match in second place after the qualification, just one point behind Sidi, but did not shot his best round “This place is my nightmare! I don’t know what happens with me,” confessed Zhu while speaking to the Chinese journalists “After the Olympic Games – here Zhu had lost a gold – I am no longer so confident. Maybe it’s this final hall,” continued the Chinese shooter, current number one in the world rank in this event “Before the Games I knew I could make it. But since that Olympic final I only have bad feelings. It’s like a nightmare going on.”

Czech’s Vaclav HAMAN won Bronze by shooting an extreme final of 104.3 points. The 22-year old athlete climbed from the eight place, shooting today’s best score in the final.

Behind him, USA’s Matthew RAWLINGS placed in fifth after shooting-off for three times against Norway’s Ole Magnus BAKKEN. The two shooters had tied with 697.8 points after the last competition shot, then they booth fired 9.8 in the first shoot-off shot, and 10.2 in the second one. With an excellent 10.6 Rawlings won the contest, placing in fifth with 697.8 (595+102.8) +9.8, +10.2, +10.6.
“I actually did not realize how many times I shoot-off. I was too concentrate. – said Rawlings after the match – This is my second final in two weeks, and I feel I am getting more confident after every shot.”

Korea’s KIM Dae Seon finished in seventh place with 697.5 (595+102.5), preceding Germany’s Henri JUNGHAENEL, eighth with 696.7 points (595+101.7).

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