The 10m Air Rifle Women event has certainly been played on the thin line of small point-tenth, as the three medallists finished on the podium divided just by 0.7 points. Daya SHYTKO of Ukraine won her first medal ever with 502.7 points, followed by the current world record holder Sonja Pfeilschifter and by the second German finalist Beate Gauss, third with 502.0 points.
Gold to Ukraine’s Darya Shytko:
Darya SHYTKO of Ukraine, 23-year old, won the 10m Air Rifle Women event at the ISSF World Cup in Munich, ending the final round in first place with a total score of 502.7 points. Shytko qualified for the final match with a score of 399 points, shooting then 103.7 points throughout the ten final shots.
The Ukrainian shooter had never won a world cup final round before, and her best placement so far had been an eighth place gained at last year’s World Cup stage held here in Munich. Table turned in the last 12 months: Shytko had finished in eight and last place at last year’s match leaded by Sonja Pfeilschifter of Germany, and she won today’s Gold by overtaking the same Pfeilschifter at the last shot.
Local hero Pfeilschifter in second
By shooting Gold, Ukraine’s Shytko upset the world record holder Sonja Pfeilschifter of Germany, who had won the last edition of the ISSF World Cup in Munich in 2008. Pfeilschifter (38) could not keep up with her younger rival in spite of having a clear home-court advantage, and eventually concluded the final match in second place winning Silver with 502.3 points (399+103.3).
The left-handed Pfeilschifter added today’s Silver medal to her consistent awards collection. Next to three World Championship gold medal, the 38-year old shooter has won the impressive number of 11 World Cup Stages and 3 different World Cup Finals. She had won her last ISSF Gold medal at the 2008 World Cup stage held in Milan.
Two German shooters climbed the podium: Bronze to Gauss
The German team also celebrated the Bronze medal won by Beate GAUSS, 24-year old, #22 in the current world ranking. She placed in third winning Bronze with 502.0 (399+103.0) points.
The third German finalist, the 2008 gold medallist of the world cup stage in Rio de Janeiro Barbara Lechner (26) fired a frustrating 8.7 on her fifth competition shot, landing in eighth place behind USA’s Jamie BEYERLE (seventh), and Czech’s Pavla KALNA (sixth)
The Olympic Silver medallist Lioubov GALKINA of Russia finished in fifth place with a total score of 500.9 (398+102.9) points.
