50m rifle 3 position Women – Pfeilschifter shot her second consecutive Gold
The unbeatable German rifle shooter Sonja Pfeilschifter won today’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions Women event, claiming her second consecutive Gold medal at the ISSF World Cup in Milan.
Germany’s Sonja PFEILSCHIFTER, who won the 10m Air Rifle women event two days ago, played an excellent match at today’s 50m Rifle 3 Position competition. Qualified in fourth place with 585 points, the 38-year old German athlete climbed in the lead by firing the highest score of today’s final, 101.9 points. With a total score of 686.9 points (585+101.9), Sonja Pfeilschifter secured her second consecutive Gold medal, her 39th ISSF World Cup medal won in rifle events.
Climbing to the highest step of the podium, Pfeilschifter overtook the qualification’s leader, the Serbian shooter Lidija MIHAJLOVIC, who finished in second place winning Silver with a total score of 685.3 points (587+98.3). The 40-year old Serbian shooter, an Olympic finalist of Beijing, had won her last ISSF world cup medal (a Silver) at the 2008 world cup stage of Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.
With a total score of 684.1 (585+99.1) points, today’s Bronze medal went to the 22-year old Chinese shooter WAN Xiangyan, who shot her third, consecutive podium in this event out of four world cup stages since the beginning of the year. The young athlete had started the season by winning a Silver at the world cup stage of Changwon, Korea, and kept on winning at the world cup in Beijing, China, where she shot a Bronze medal in front of her spectators.
WAN fought right to the last shot against USA’s Jamie BEYERLE, who climbed from the sixth place she had on the start list, coming closer to the podium placements shot after shot. The American shooter (who celebrated her 25th birthday today) tried to find a spot on the podium, eventually finishing in fourth place with a total score of 683.7 (583+100.7) points, only 4 tenths far from the Bronze medal.
The second Chinese finalist, the winner of this year’s ISSF World Cup stages in Korea and China, YIN Wen, finished in fifth place with 681.1 (585+96.1) points, preceding Swiss’s first time finalist Andrea BRUEHLMANN who placed in sixth with 680.1 (583+97.1) points.
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.
