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10m Air Rifle Women- Pfeilschifter back on Milan’s podium

May 24th, 2009
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Sonja PFEILSCHIFTER won the 10m Air Rifle Women final match. She had set the current Final World Record here in Milan one year ago. Following her on the podium, the home athlete Petra ZUBLASING secured Silver.

The left-handed German Champion Sonja PFEILSCHIFTER, 38, claimed Gold at the 10m Air Rifle Women final round while shooting in the first competition-day of the ISSF World Cup in Rifle and Pistol events in Milan, Italy.

The German shooter, an expert of Milan’s shooting range (she had won the world cup stage held here in 2008 by setting a new final world record), shot today’s Gold with a total score of 502.0 points (399+103.0).

Pfeilschifter, a world record holder in this event, turns out to be one of the main protagonists of this year’s ISSF World Cup Series. Milan’s Gold is her second world cup medal, this year, following the Silver she had secured on the lines of the 1972 Olympic shooting range of Munich, Germany, last week.

Coming in second place, the 19-year old Petra ZUBLASING of Italy secured Silver with the support of her home spectators. She shot the highest final round of 103.4 points, totalizing a score of 501.5 points.

The young shooter, awarded as Junior European Champion last February, had never won an ISSF World Cup medal before. “I had never won a world cup medal before, it’s so good to be on the podium here in Milan, in front of all this spectators. I would not say that Milan’s is my home range, but still I feel great. I hope I will keep on shooting good results: I am studying engineering, training and working at the same time. That’s not easy!”

Bronze went to the 20-year old Chinese shooter Jieqiong XIE, who placed in third with 501.4 (398+103.4) points, just one tenth of a point less then Silver medallist ZUBLASING. XIE debuted in the ISSF World Cup series last April, at the world cup stage held in Changwon (KOR) where she won a Silver medal.

The winner of the previous ISSF World Cup stage of Munich, Ukraine’s Darya SHYTKO, 23, placed in fourth with 500.1 (398+103.4) points.

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10m Air Rifle Women – Gold and Silver to China

April 19th, 2009
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10m air pistol women China’s YIN Wen, 26, secured Gold by shooting the best final with a score of 503.4 points (399+104.4), climbing from the second place she had on the start list after the qualification. She had finished in first also at the last ISSF world cup stage, held in Chanwon, Korea, last week.

YIN’s teammate YI Siling, today’s youngest finalist (19-year old) closed the match in second place, winning Silver with 501.5 points (399+102.5).

Olympic Bronze medallist Snjezana PEJCIC of Croatia, who had won her Olympic podium on these shooting lines, placed in third with 500.7 points (399+101.7). She led the match right to the last shot, when a she fired a fatal 9.6 that pushed her in third.

Today’s third Chinese finalist WANG Bing Ying placed in fourth with 500.5 points (398+102.5)

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10m Air Rifle Women – China secured gold and silver at the last shot

April 12th, 2009
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20090411_AR40 Korean shooter LEE Da Hye turned out to be unlucky at today’s 10m Air Rifle Women event, at the ISSF World Cup in rifle and pistol events in Changwon, Korea.
Shooting in front of her home spectators, the 21-year old rifle shooter LEE, a new face from Korea, lost the gold medal on her last competition shot. Qualified in second with a score of 398 points, the local hero climbed in the lead after a few shots, and kept the place right to the end, fighting neck and neck against her Chinese opponents Jieqiong XIE and YIN Wen.

The three shooters tied in the lead after the 9th competition shot, so that the 10th and last final shot turned into a shoot-off for gold. Pressure probably tricked the young LEE, when she fired a disappointing 9.5 that pulled her out of the lead to land in third place with a total score of 499.7 points (398+101.7).

The 26-year old Chinese shooter YIN Wen took advantage of LEE’s defiance and to move in first place with a shot of 10.4 points, grabbing the gold medal with a total score of 500.6 points (396+104.6). YIN is known to be an expert 50m rife three positions shooter, and she seldom competes in the 10m air rifle event. But she makes an exception for the shooting range of Changwon, where she had already won two world cup medals in this event in 2003 and 2005.

YIN’s teammate, 20-year old XIE Jieqiong of China, secured silver with a total score of 500.5 points (398+102.5) by shooting a last shot of 10.3 points. Her placement on the podium next to her teammate YIN highlighted once more the overall excellent performance of the Chinese team, which entered three shooters into the final and placed two of them on the podium.

The second Korean finalist, PARK Eun Gyeong, finished in fifth place with 497.9 points (396+101.9), while the 2007 Pan American Games silver medallist Amy SOWASH of the United States of America placed in sixth with 497.2 points (395+102.2) after coming back form the eight place she had on the start list.

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