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Double Trap Men Junior – Russia, Italy and USA on the podium

August 15th, 2009
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20090813_DT150JRussia’s Miroshnichenko won the Double Trap Junior Gold. Russia, Italy and USA climbed on the team podium.

The 20-year old Russian athlete Vladimir MIROSHNICHENKO won today’s Double Trap Men Junior competition, securing the individual Gold medal and lifting the Russian Junior team on the highest step of the team podium.

The young Russian shooter won today’s competition with a total score of 143 out of 150 targets, leaving his opponents four targets behind him.

MIROSHNICHENKO, a three –time European Championship medallist, had competed both in the 2006 and 2007 ISSF World Championships, but he had never made it into the top-3 so far.

The Silver and the Bronze medal were assigned through a three-way shoot-off between Italy’s GASPARINI and CHIANESE and USA’s William CRAWFORD.

The 16-year old American shooter CRAWFORD, at his first international experience, turned out to be the first to miss in the shoot-off, lading in fourth place with a total score of 139 +4 targets.

Italy’s Davide GASPARINI, 19-year old, at his first world-level competition, outdid his teammate Alessandro CHIANESE, winning Silver with a total of 139 +7 targets.

The 19-year old Italian athlete CHIANESE placed in third winning Bronze. CHIANESE, Junior Silver medallist at the last European Championship of Osijek (CRO) two weeks ago, had taken part also in the 2007 World Championship in Nicosia, where he had placed in eighth.

Junior Teams podium: Russia, USA and Italy
MIROSHNICHENKO’s top result pushed the Russian Federation Junior team in the lead. Russia (Vladimir MIROSHNICHENKO, Artem NEKRASOV and Maksim LAZAREV) shot the team Gold with a total score of 413 targets.

Following in second, the United States of America won the Junior team Silver medal thanks to the overall result of 407 targets scored by William CRAWFORD, Derek HALDEMAN and Bryce GEARHART.

Alessandro CHIANESE, Davide GASPARINI and Marco VANNUCCI of Italy won the team Bronze medal with a total of 402 hits.

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Double Trap Men – D’Aniello won his second, consecutive, title.

August 15th, 2009
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20090813_DT150Italy’s Olympic Silver medallist confirmed to be world’s number one by winning the Double Trap Final match at the ISSF World Championship of Maribor.

Italy’s Francesco D’ANIELLO won his second consecutive World Champion title, confirming the results of the 2007 World Championship of Nicosia (CYP).

Beijing’s Olympic Silver medallist D’ANIELLO, 40, won today’s final match with a total score of 190 hits. After qualifying for the medal match in the lead with 146 his, the Italian shooter score 44 out of 50 targets in the final round, finishing on the highest step of the podium with four targets of advantage on his followers

“I won the European Championship two weeks ago, and now I confirmed the 2007 World Champion title. I wonted to be the number one, and I made it, I feel great!” said D’ANIELLO after his last double. The Italian shooter had won the European Championships of Osijek just two weeks ago, and walked into this competition as the reigning World Champion.

The 40-year old Champion started competing four years ago.
D’ANIELLO apparently did not realize he was in the lead right to the last double. “I heard the others were missing, and I knew I had some targets of advantage. I relaxed a little bit, but I did not know how far they were. Shooting the last two targets, I saw my teammates jumping up, and I understood I had made it!”

D’ANIELLO, 40-year old, started competing in 2005, at the age of 36 years. In the last four years, he climbed the international rankings, winning two ISSF World Cup stages, the Olympic Silver in Beijing, and two World Championships Gold medals. “My 5-year old son told me “dad, break ‘all the targets”, I did not brake ‘em all, but I am glad I am bringing him back a medal…”

D’Aniello faced USA, today’s strongest team.
Fighting for a spot on the podium, D’ANIELLO met three American athletes in the final round, Jeffrey HOLGUIN, Walton ELLER and Joshua RICHMOND, winners of the team Gold with an equalled World Record of 430 targets. “The USA team is really strong. They are excellent shooters. Facing the Olympic Champion Eller and his teammate Holguin in the final brought me back to the Olympic Final of Beijing. I faced the best shooters of the world, today. It has not been easy….” D’ANIELLO concluded.

Italy (D’ANIELLO, Claudio FRANZONI, Daniele DI SPIGNO placed in second winning the team Silver with an overall score of 421 targets, while team Bronze went to Great Britain (Steven SCOTT, Richard FAULDS, Steven WALTON) with 418 targets.

Silver medal to USA’s Holguin
Silver went to USA’s Jeffery HOLGUIN, 30-year old. HOLGUIN ended up with a total score of 186 targets, and secured the medal by winning 2 to 0 a shoot-off against the Chinese finalist WANG Nan. HOLGUIN, a 2008 Olympic finalist of Beijing, had won his last ISSF medal in 2008, when he had shot a Bronze at the ISSF World Cup stage of Kerrville (USA).

WANG Nan, 31, from the People’s Republic of China, grabbed Bronze with a total score of 186 +0 targets, after loosing the shoot-off for Silver against USA’s Jeffery HOLGUIN.

Olympic Champion Eller finished in fourth
Beijing’s Olympic Champion, Glenn Eller, finished in fourth place just one target behind the medallists, with a total score of 185 hits. The 27-year old American champion qualified for the final with a score of 143 targets, dropping then 8 targets during the final match. “The weather changed, but it did not affect our match. Targets made it difficult. The targets they used for this final were really hard to break, I am 100% sure about it.”

Today’s youngest finalist, Eller’s 23-year old temmate Joshua RICHMOND (USA) placed in fifth with 183 +5 targets after outdoing India’s Ronjan SODHI in a shoot-off.

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Double Trap Men – HU shot a 196-target final world record

June 11th, 2009
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China’s HU Binyuan set a new, outstanding Final World Record of 196 targets, shattering the previous 194-record which resisted since 1999. HU left behind him the old-record holder SODHI of India, Silver medallist, and Russia’s Vitaly FOKEEV, Bronze winner.

The limits of the Double Trap events were raised today, as the Chinese shooter HU Binyuan set a new Final World Record of 196 hits, two targets more the previous 194 -target record which had been set by Italy’s DI SPIGNO ten years ago, at the 1999 Wolrd Championship.

The Olympic Bronze medallist HU, who had won a Silver medal here in Minsk at last year’s ISSF World Cup Final, walked into today’s final round with an equalled World Record of 147 hits after the morning’s qualification rounds.

After shooting 49 targets in all of the three qualification rounds, the Chinese shooter score 49 targets also in the final match, setting a new, outstanding Final World Record of 196 hits. Unreachable, the Chinese shooter left behind him India’s Ronjan SODHI, second with 194 hits, and Russia’s Vitaly FOKEEV, Bronze medallist with 190 hits.

Ronjan SODHI, who had equalled the previous 194-target record last year, finished in second place claiming Silver with a total score of 194 hits “I equalled the old 194-target record once again, today. Actually, I equalled the old record for about ten seconds, then HU shot his last pair, hit both the targets, and set a new one!” Said the Indian shooter after the match.

“196 hits! This is an outstanding record, it came out of a combination of perfect weather and of a perfect range, and of a great performance of Hu.” Said SOSHI. The Indian athlete had been the only shooter able to equal the previous 194-record, in the last ten years “But we have a new record now, and records are made to be equalled and broken. Double Trap results are moving up, the level is higher and higher…”

Italy’s Daniele DI SPIGNO, who had set the 194-record at the 1999 World Championships of Tampere, Finland, placed today in tenth place, and commented: “This is an outstanding record, especially if you consider that the previous one lasted 10 years. Now we all have a new frontier ahead of us.”

Russia’s Vitaly FOKEEV placed in third today, winning Bronze with 190 (142+48) hits, coming back on an ISSF podium two years after his last medal, won at the 2007 ISSF World Cup of Lonato.

Following FOKEEV, Hakan DAHLBY of Sweden, USA’s Joshua RICHMOND (winner of the last world cup stage in Munich) and Saif ALSHAMSY of the UAE, tied with a total score of 188 hits. In the following shoot-off, ALSHAMSY was the first to miss, placing in sixth place with 188+3 targets. 21-year old Joshua RICHMOND kept on shooting right to his fourth pair, when he dropped a target placing himself in fifth with 188+7 targets, while the expert Swedish champion DAHLBY placed in fourth with 188+8 targets.

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