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10m RT Mixed Men Junior – Azarenko brought Russia on the podium

August 25th, 2009 No comments

20090824_RT10MixJMikhail Azarenko won his second, consecutive, World Championship title. Together with his teammate, he brought the Russian Federation team on the highest step of the teams podium.

Mikhail AZARENKO, 18-year old, from Russia, won the 10m Running Target Mixed Men Junior competition, confirming the World Champion title he had won at last year’s World Championship in Plezen.

AZARENKO won his second, consecutive, title with a total score of 379 points, only one point more then what scored by the Silver medallist MATSKEVYCH of Ukraine. Igor MATSKEVYCH, 19, turned out to be one point shy of grabbing the Gold medal, finishing in second place with a total score of 378 points. The young athlete had arrived here in Heinola as one of the favourites, after winning this year’s European Championships in Prague.

Today’s 10m Running Target Mixed Men Junior competition turned out to be a stage of success for the home team, Finland. The 19-year old Tomi-Pekka HEIKKILÄ exploited the home-court advantage and claimed Bronze with a total score of 371 points.

“It feels great to win a World Championship medal in my country! – said HEIKKILA after the last competition series – Today’s is my best placement ever, in a world-level competition. But I feel I can shoot even better then this!”

“There is no time to celebrate, now. I am looking forward to the next competition!” concluded Tomi-Pekka, who will take part in the 10m Running Target Men Junior competition starting tomorrow.

Check the results of the 10m Running Target Mixed Men Junior.

Team Podium: Azarenko lifted Russia in the lead
The World Champion Mikhail AZARENKO, together with his teammates Alexsander NAUMENKO and Yuri DOVGAL, brought Russia on the highest step of the team podium, with a total score of 1114 points.

Team Finland placed in second, winning Silver 12 points behind Russia. Tomi-Pekka HEIKKILÄ, Marten WESTERLUND and Sami HEIKKILÄ scored a total of 1102 points, securing Silver with four points of advantage on the Bronze medallist Ukraine (Igor MATSKEVYCH, Lev ZAPOTICHNYY, Oleg SALAMAKHA).

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10m RT Mixed Men – Russia’s Romanov claimed Gold

August 25th, 2009 No comments

20090824_RT10MixCompeting for the first time between Senior shooter, Russia’s Romanov won the 10m Running Target Mixed Men beating expert and titled shooters with one point of advantage.

The 22-year old Russian shooter Dmitry ROMANOV claimed Gold at the 10m Running Target Mixed Men event, winning the first medal of the 2009 ISSF Running Target World Championship in Heinola, Finland.

ROMANOV secured Gold with a total score of 388 points, finishing one point ahead of the Silver medallist, the Czech athlete Miroslav JANUS, 37.


“I can’t believe I won! I still don’t understand what’s going on around me! – Said the young Russian winner – I had won a medal at the European Championships, last July, and several medals as junior shooters, but I did not expect I could make it to the highest step of the World Championship podium”.

Starting competing at the age of fourteen, ROMANOV had won the 2002 and the 2006 World Championships shooting as junior, and during his short but successful career he also secured five European titles. He had never claimed a Senior medal, before.

“I shot a good total score, but I am not totally satisfied. I know I can reach higher scores, that’s the goal for the future!” ROMANOV said looking at his total score of 388 points, right after the last round.

The Olympic medallist of Atlanta 1996, the expert Czech shooter Miroslav JANUS, 37-year old, placed in second winning Silver with a total of 387 points,

ROMANOV’s teammate, Maxim STEPANOV, 29, finished in third place winning Bronze with a total of 384 points after outdoing Sweden’s Emil ANDERSSON and Slovakia’s Peter PELACH in a shoot-off.

Check the results of the 10m Running Target Mixed Men.

Team podium: Russia in the lead

Thanks to the excellent points scored by ROMANOV and STEPANOV, the Russian Federation’s team (ROMANOV, STEPANOV, Alexander IVANOV) gained the team Gold with a combined score of 1148 points, leaving the Silver medallists twelve points behind.

JANUS’s Czech team (Miroslav JANUS, Josef NIKL, Bedrich JONAS), secured the team Silver with 1136 points. Seven points behind, with a total score of 1129, Slovakia (Peter PELACH, Peter PLANOVSKY and Miroslav JURCO) won the team BRONZE.

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