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Two Russian shooters, DOVGAL and AZARENKO, made it to the individual podium, lifting Russia on the Team Podium.

19-year old Russian shooter Yuri DOVGAL won today’s 50m Running Target Mixed Men Junior competition, securing the Gold medal with a total score of 389 points and with four points of advantage on his followers. The young athlete claimed his first individual Gold medal. He had won Silver in this event both at the 2008 and at the 2009 European Championship, winning also several team medals, but he had never won an individual competition, before.

Following in second place, the talented 19-year old Hungarian shooter Laszlo BOROS claimed Silver with 385 points. BOROS had finished in second also at last year’s World Championship in Plzen.

Mikhail AZARENKO of Russia, one of the most titled junior shooter of this World Championship, closed the match in third place, securing Bronze with a total score of 381 points, only one point more then what scored by Finland’s Marten WESTERLUND, fourth with 380 points.

Teams: Russia four points ahead.

Thanks to the excellent performances of DOVGAL, AZARENKO and Alexander NAUMENKO (who place in eighth in the individual competition), the Russian Federation brought back home the Team Gold with a total of 1139 points.

Four points behind, the home team, Finland, placed in second winning the Team Silver thanks to the 1130 points scored by Marten WESTERLUND, Tomi-Pekka HEIKKILA and Sami HEIKKILA.

Ukraine (Igor MATSKEVYCH, Oleg SALAMANKHA and Lev ZAPOTICHNYY) secured Team Bronze with 1084 points.

With one point of advantage on her follwers, Natalya Gurova of Kazakhstan won the 10m Running Target Mixed Women event.

Natalya GUROVA, 33-year old, claimed Gold for Kazakhstan at the 10m Running Target Mixed Women event. The Kazakh shooter, who had never won a medal in this event before, finished atop of the podium with a total score of 376 points.

“Of course I am happy of my score! It brought me a Gold medal, with one point of advantage on my followers!” said GUROVA, who finished in first with one point of margin on her opponents.

Coming in second, Ukraine’s Viktoriya ZABOLOTNA won Silver with a total score of 375 points. The 23-year old Ukrainian shooter had finished in second also at the last Running Target World Championship edition, in Plezen, last year.

Bronze went to the Russian shooter Olga STEPANOVA, 22, who reached the third step of the podium with a total of 373 points, missing her chances to catch ZABOLOTNA at her last round, when she scored 92 points against the 94 points scored by her Ukrainian opponents.

Click and check the results of the competition.

Mikhail 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.

Competing 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.

Russia’s Shomin leads after the first 75 qualification targets. Hancock, Brovold and Achilleos follow him. Tomorrow, the last 50 targets and the final.