The 27-year old shooter had to move from Denmark to Norway to train and reach his Olympic dream. He secured the brightest medal by outscoring Cyprus’ champion Achilleos at the shoot-off, after an almost perfect match.

Today’s Skeet Men Final, the closing match of the 2011 ISSF Shotgun World Cup in Maribor, was won by Andres Golding, a 27-year old shooter from Pandrup, in the north of Denmark.

Golding, ranked eighth in the world, made it into today’s final round with a qualification score of 124 hits out of 125 targets, tied to Beijing’s Olympic Silver medallist Tore Brovold of Norway and to the 2007 World Champion Georgios Achielleos of Cyprus.

Shooting a perfect final of 25 hits out of 25 targets, he ended up with a total score of 149 targets. Meeting Cyprus’ Achilleos in a shoot-off for Gold, the Danish shooter pocketed the brightest medal by beating his opponents 2 to 1 hits.

Golding, who had never won an ISSF World Cup Stage before, also secured an Olympic Quota Place, a qualification spot for the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

Today’s victory thrilled the Danish team, who reached a total of 5 Olympic qualification spots, two in Shotgun and three in Rifle shooting. A great step forward in comparison with the 2008 Games, when only one Danish shooter got to Beijing.

“All the hard work we have been doing, paid off today.” Golding said after the final.

“I had to move to another country to train, as in the place were I used to live I was only allowed to train once per week, due to environmental regulations.”

“I moved from Denmark to Norway, to train and to win this Olympic Quota Place.”

“After five consecutive finals, when I walked into today’s match I strongly wanted to win the Gold medal.” Said Golding, who has been climbing up the world ranking, in the last two years.

“He is a great shooter, he can get far.” His coach, the 1998 World Champion Piero Genga of Italy said.

“Golding has a good technique, and is very consistent.”

Following in second place, Cyprus’ Georgios Achielleos was awarded the Silver medal with a total score of 149+1 targets. The 30-year old shooter had secured a Silver medal also at the second world cup stage of the year in Sydney.

The Bronze medal and the second Olympic Quota Place went to Greece’s Efthimios Mitas, 26, who closed the round in third place with 146 hits. After making it into the final with 123 hits, the Greek shooter marked 23 targets, winning the second ISSF medal of his shooting career.

The Olympic Silver medallist of Beijing 2008, Norway’s Tore Brovold, finished out of the podium, in sixth place. After qualifying with 124 hits, he missed four targets during the final, ending up with a total score of 145 hits, tied to France’s Eric Delaunay in fifth and to Germany’s Ralf Buchheim in fourth.

“I could not see properly. It was simply too dark: the final took place too late.” The Norwegian shooter commented after the match, which had started at 7 PM and finished around 7.30 PM, at dusk.

The Skeet Men Final closed the ISSF Shotgun World Cup held at the Gaj Shooting Range of Maribor, Slovenia, from the 7th of July.

This was the fourth and last ISSF Shotgun World Cup Stage of the year. The best shotgun shooters of the World will now meet in the 2011 ISSF Shotgun World Championship, kicking-off in Belgrade on the 3rd of September. The season will then be closed by the ISSF Shotgun World Cup Final, taking place in Al Ain (UAE) starting from the 30th of September.

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The 1996 Olympic Champion Ennio Falco played the protagonist’s role, at the ISSF World Cup Final in Izmir (TUR). The Italian ace shooter started the qualifications with a perfect 25-hit round, continuing then with four excellent series of 23, 24 and 25 hits, making it into the final round with the highest qualification score of 122 hits with one target of advantage on his followers.

Then, the Italian shooter took it easy “I was not nervous. I peaked for the World Championship at the beginning of August, and I secured an Olympic Quota Place there. So I was shooting without pressure, here at the World Cup Final…” The Italian shooter said immediately after the award ceremony.

Shooting with ease, Falco shattered 25 targets throughout the final match, landing on the highest step of the podium with a total score of 147 hits out of 150 targets, and securing his fifth World Cup Final title. He had won his first Final thirteen years ago, in Lima, in 1997. “It has been a few years ago… Winning the fifth World Cup Title makes me feel great. I never gave up this year, and I gave my best for this 2010 shooting season;” Falco said. “The focus is set on the next Games, now.” The Italian shooter concluded.

The Italian team celebrated his second title won here in Izmir, as the Skeet Women Gold medal went to Falco’s teammate Katiuscia Spada, yesterday. “This is a great result for our shooters and our federation. The hard work we have been doing is paying-off!” commented Mr. Luciano Rossi, ISSF Vice-President and President of the Italian Shotgun Shooting Federation.

The Silver medal went to the Danish shooter Andres Golding, who climbed upon the second step of the podium with a total score of 145+2 targets, after outdoing Russia’s Valery Shomin and Greece Nikolas Mavrommatis in a shoot-off.

It was a great satisfaction for the Danish shooter. Golding, a carpenter living in Oslo, had indeed never secured a World Cup medal, before. The 26-year old shooter, coached by the former World Champion Piero Genga, shot with determination hitting 121 targets in the qualifications and 24 targets in the final.

Winning the shoot-off for the Silver medal, he redeemed himself. He had indeed lost a determinant shoot-off and missed an Olympic Quota Place just a few weeks ago, during the final round of the last ISSF World Championship.

The winner of that final, the 2010 World Champion Valery Shomin of Russia secured today’s Bronze medal with 145+1+4 targets, outdoing the Greek shooter Nikolas Mavrommatis 4 to 3 hits. The 39-year old shooter form Moskov, competing with the colures of the CSKA club, had won a World Cup Final in 2006, and two Bronzes in 2000 and 2007.

Norway’s Tore Brovold ended up the match in fifth place with 144 hits (121+23), followed by Italy’s Luigi Lodde who closed the round in sixth with 142 hits (121+21).

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Valery Shomin of the Russian Federation is the new Skeet World Champion. The 39-year old athlete won the title and an Olympic Quota place after an outstanding final, by outdoing Italy’s Ennio Falco at the 22^nd target in a spine-chilling shoot-off for Gold.

Shomin and Falco fought neck and neck since the first competition shot. Both the shooters qualified for the final round with the same qualification score, 124 hits out of 125 possible targets, and started shooting-off from the first station.

Duelling shoulder and shoulder throughout the eight stations, the two athletes played a perfect match, hitting all of the 25 final targets, and finished the round as they had started: tied in the lead with a score of 149 total hits.

The following shoot-off (a direct-elimination tie-breaker conducted on the fourth station – the first who misses, goes out), turned in favour of Shomin, who climbed upon the highest step of the podium with 149 targets + 22 hits in the shoot-of, while Falco was left in second with 149+21 hits.

Shomin, ranked sixth in the world, finished in the spot-light every four years. He had indeed won two ISSF World Championship silver medals in 2002 and 2006, in Lahti (FIN) and Zegreb (CRO).

“After two Silver medals, it’s great to finally win a title!” Said the Russian athlete after the match “I would like to dedicate this victory to my father Kim, who passed away last April, while I was out for a shooting competition.” Continued Shomin “I was not expecting a victory here in Munich, but I am glad that I made it, especially thinking about the Olympic qualification.”

Italy’s Ennio Falco secured his fourth World Championship Silver medal. The 1996 Olympic Champion could not defeat the odds. Since 1983, when he started competing, the Italian shooter has won every title – from the Olympic Gold of Atlanta to five European titles, from four World Cup Final editions to 10 World Cup Gold medals – but the world tile.

“Unfortunately I did not make it. For the fourth time. We shot an almost perfect competition, today – said Falco after the match – 149 hits out of 150 targtes is a great result. I knew I had to be perfect, but I could not do more then this. We were tied right to the end, and I am proud of what I have done here today!” Said the 42-year old champion “I am happy with the Olympic Quota Place, this makes it easier for the next year. I knew this was going to be a long season, and I tried to peak to be competitive here in Munich, to qualify for the next Games at the first given chance, as I have always done since nineties!” concluded Falco, who has been competing in every Olympics since 1996.

The Bronze medal went to Cyprus’ Georgios Achielleos, the 2007 World Champion, who defeated his teammate Antonakis Andreou in a shoot-off for the podium. The two shooters, both trained by the 2004 Olympic Champion Andrea Benelli of Italy, started the final round with an equal score of 123 clays, and cleared the eighth station ending up with a total score of 148 hits. It was then the 29-year old Achilleos (leading the world ranking until this morning) who climbed on the podium with 10 shoot-off targets to Andreou’s 9 hits. The two teammates duelled on the range but celebrated together after the final: they both won the Olympic Quota Places for the Skeet event at the 2012 Games.

The fifth and last Olympic Quota place was taken by the Olympic Champion of Beijing 2008, USA’s Vincent Hancock, who placed in fifth after outdoing Denmark’s Andres Golding 8 to 7 hits in a shoot-off. Hancock, who had qualified for the medal match with 123 hits and had then missed a pool on the last double of station four, closed the match with a total score of 147+7 points.

The Team’s Gold Medal went to Cyprus, thanks to the great performances of the two finalists Achilleos and Andreou, and to their teammate Kyriacos Chritoforou, who finsihed on the podium with an overall score of 364 hits. Falco’s Italy finished in second on the teams’ podium, with an overall score of 363 targets hit by Ennio and his two teammates Angelo Moscariello and Velerio Luchini. Following in third place, the last medal of the 50^th ISSF World Championship in Munich went to the French team, on the podium with 362 targets scored by Anthony Terras, Eric Delaunay and Edouard Poumaillou.

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“To win two World Cup Gold medals back to back is a dream which comes true!” said the Cypriot Champion Georgios Achilleos, who claimed today’s Skeet Men Gold medal at the ISSF World Cup in Lonato, Italy. The 29-year old shooter, who had won also the previous World Cup Stage held in Dorset (UK), secured the brightest medal with a total score of 148+10 targets, outdoing Greece’s Nikolaos Mavromatis in a shoot-off.

“Three years ago, here in Lonato, I finished in second in spite of scoring 149 targets… - continued Achilleos, speaking at the ISSF TV microphones after the award ceremony – Coming here I knew that high scores were mandatory to finish on the highest step of the podium, and I prepared myself.”

Making it into the final round with a qualification score of 123 hits, the Cypriot athlete climbed up the scoreboard to the lead, hitting 25 out of 25 final targets in spite of the wind affecting the targets “The wind helped me. I handled it, while my opponents started missing. Passing through the trainings and the qualification rounds, I felt really confident.” Said Achilleos, who closed the round with a total score of 148 hits beating then the qualification’s leader Nikolaos Mavrommatis 10 to 9 hits in a shoot-off for Gold.

“Coming from a Gold medal in Dorset, I knew I was in very good conditions and well prepared to make it. I only participated in two World Cup Stages this year, trying to save some energies because I want to be ready for the ISSF World Championship in Munich.” Concluded Achilleos, speaking about the 50^th ISSF World Championship in all events, where he will face the strongest shooters of the world in a fight to secure the first 2012 Olympic Quota Places. The Cypriot shooter, ranked third in the world in the Skeet Men event, has already rose the World Championship cup twice, as a Junior competitor in 1999, and in 2007, when he won at his home range in Nicosia.

Today’s Silver medal went to Greece’s Nikolaos Mavrommatis. The 29-year old shooter, who had never made it to a World Cup final round before, qualified for the medal match in the lead with 124 hits, loosing then his head start by missing a target on station four. Tied to Achielleos with a final score of 148 hits, he lost the Gold in the shoot-off, finishing in second with 148+9 hits.

The battle for Bronze kept the spectators’ breaths, as three shooters tied in third place with a total score of 147 hits, and they had to pass through a second shoot-off to determinate the podium placements.

Russia’s expert Valery Shomin, 38, was the was the first to miss, placing himself in fifth with a total score of 147+11 hits, while the 2008 Olympic Champion Hancock (USA) and Denmark’s Andres Golding, 26, kept on shooting for the Bronze.  After an endless back and forth on station four, it was Vincent Hancock who claimed the Bronze medal with a total score of 147+38 hits, leaving Golding in fourth with a score of 147+37 targets.

Following them, UAE’s Saeed Almaktoum closed the round in sixth place with a total score of 143 hits. The 33-year old shooter, who just changed his shotgun to a spectacular custom made Holland&Holland, had participated in his last ISSF final round in 2007, at the World Cup stage held in Maribor.

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The 2007 World Champion, Cyprus’ Georgios Achielleos, secured the Skeet Men Gold medal at the ISSF Shotgun World Cup Stage in Dorset. The 29-year old athlete finished in first place with a total score of 146 (123+23) hits, coming back atop of an ISSF podium one year after his victory at the 2009 World Cup in San Marino.

Making into the final with a qualification score of 123 hits, Achielleos moved into the lead after the fourth station. Missing just two targets, the Cypriot champion cleared the final with a score of 23 hits out of 25 targets, climbing atop of the podium with a total score of 146 hits to secure the fourth ISSF World Cup Gold medal of his career.

“Today’s targets have been difficult for everybody. All the shooters complained about them: targets seem to be harder than usual.” Said Achielleos after the match.

“I was really focused anyway, I tried not to think about it… I had been working hard for this final and I think I deserved the medal!” Added Achielleos “This is my first World Cup Stage of the year. We skipped Acapulco and Beijing, as we will take part in the Commonwealth Games, in October, and therefore we started a little bit later: the season is long, this year.”

Following him, Greece’s Efthimios Mitas, 24, claimed Silver with 145 hits, outdoing by 4 to 3 targets Russia’s Valery Shomin in a shoot-off for the second step of the podium. Mitas had never won an ISSF medal before, and his best placement in an ISSF World Cup had been a sixth place at last year’s World Cup in Cairo (EGY).

Valery Shomin, who had squeezed into the final match throughout a shoot-off with a qualification score of 122+8 hits, scored 23 targets during the final match. Loosing the second shoot-off of his match against Mitas, the 38-year old Russian athlete landed in third place, securing Bronze with a total score of 145+3 hits.

Today’s final did not turn into a lucky match for the 2008 Olympic Champion, the 21-year old American shooter Vincent Hancock. Making it into the final tied to Achilleos with a qualification score of 123 hits, the young champion dropped four targets throughout the final, finishing in fourth with 144+5 hits, after outdoing China’s Wang Ying in a shoot-off.

After winning the first two World Cup Stages of the year in Acapulco and Beijing, he current number one in the world in this event, Norway’s Tore Brovold, finished in eighteenth place, with a score of 119 hits. “I had not enough time to recharge the batteries – Said Brovold – I passed a week in Beijing, after the last World Cup, due to the volcanic cloud. I could not rest and train between the two Cups.” Explained the Norwegian athlete, who will compete in the next ISSF World Cup Stage, in Lonato (ITA) in June.

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It was a great day today for the 2008 Olympic Silver medallist Tore Brovold, who won his second consecutive ISSF World Cup Gold medal of the season with a total score of 149 targets at the 2010 ISSF World Cup in Rifle, Pistol and Shotgun events in Beijing.

Brovold built up his victory starting from the qualifications, entering into the final with an excellent qualification score of 124 targets, and with two targets of advantage on the other finalists. During the final match, the Norwegian shooter did not miss a single target, clearing the eight stations with 25 hits out of 25 targets, and claiming Gold with a total score of 149 hits.

Tore Brovold, 39, is currently ranked second in the world, and stands as the best Skeet shooter of the 2010 season. He started off by winning Gold at the first World Cup Stage of the year, in Acapulco (MEX), and repeated himself here in Beijing, at the second 2010 World Cup Stage. The next two World Cup Stages of Dorset (GBR) and Lonato (ITA) divide him from the 2010 ISSF World Championship in all events, where the first Olympic Quota Places for the 2012 Olympic Games will be distributed to the best performers. There Brovold will meet some of the best Skeet shooters of the World, including USA’s Vincent Hancock, the 2008 Olympic Champion, who did not participate here in Beijing.

While Brovold was running for today’s Gold, two shooters animated the fight for Silver behind him. The 2000 Olympic Champion Mikola Milchev of Ukraine and the first time finalist Luigi Lodde of Italy duelled for the second spot of the podium right to the last clay.

The two athletes qualified for the final tied with a score of 122 hits, and both hit 24 clays during the final round, ending up tied in second place with a total score of 146 targets. In the following shoot-off, Lodde missed a target of the very first double, leaving the second step of the podium to Milchev, who hit both claiming Silver. Lodde ended up with the Bronze, his first ISSF medal ever with 146+1 hits.

The Chinese hope Dun Yueheng, 26, a first time finalist, ended up in fourth place with a total score of 144 hits (120+24), while Germany’s Tino Wenzel closed the round in fifth with 143 targets after outdoing UAE’s Saif Bin Futtias 4 to 3 hits in shoot-off.

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The Olympic Silver medallist of Beijing, Norway’s Tore Brovold, won the Skeet Men Gold medal at the ISSF Shotgun World Cup in Acapulco (MEX), today. The 39-year old athlete started the 2010 season in best possible way, going back on the highest step of an ISSF World Cup after missing the Gold since six years.

“It was my time, today. I had won my last World Cup Gold medal six years ago!” Said Brovold after the final match. The Norwegian shooter, a world record holder and a two times World Cup Final winner, had indeed claimed his last ISSF WC Gold at the 2004 pre-Olympic World Cup in Athens.

Starting today’s final in the lead tied to USA’s Randal McLelland with a qualification score of 124 hits, Brovold build up his victory since the first stations, shooting solidly and completing the final with a perfect score of 25 hits out of 25 targets. “I though I could make it right after clearing the fourth station” he said “But you never know. I had to hit all the final targets, to climb the podium. Randal is a young shooter, and he was shooting extremely good today. The range? Good, but the background is a little but difficult, and today’s wind made it even more difficult.”

McLelland duelled with Brovold right to the end, hitting all the final targets as well. The fight between the two athletes continued in a shoot-off for the Gold medal. Keeping the focus, Brovold outdid McLelland 2 to 1 hits, securing Gold with a total score of 149 hits + 2 targets in the shoot-off.

Randal McLelland, 24, a first time finalist, secured Silver with a total score of 149 hits + 1 targets in the shoot-off, claiming his first International medal in a windy Mexican afternoon. “My goals this year are to be on the podium at the next World Cups, and to win the World Championship!” said the 24-year old American shooter, mentioning the 2010 ISSF World Championship, that will take place in Munich starting from the 29^th of July. There, the first 2012 Olympic Games Quota Places will be awarded to the best performers.

Today’s Bronze medal went to the 2000 Olympic Champion, the Ukraine shooter Mikola Milchev. Walking into the final with 123 qualification targets, the 42-year old shooter climbed up the scoreboard by hitting 24 targets during the final, and finished on the podium with a total score of 147 clays. Always ranking between the bests, he had won his last ISSF World Cup Gold last year, in Cairo.

It turned out to be an unlucky match for the 2008 Olympic Champion of Beijing, McLelland’s teammate Vincent Hancock, the current leader of the World Ranking. Struggling through the qualifications, Hancock made it into the final with a qualification score of 122 hits, finishing then in fourth place after outdoing Netherland’s Jan-Cor Greef in a shoot-off. Last year, 20-year old Hancock had won the ISSF World Championship held in Maribor, and a Silver medal at the ISSF World Cup Final in Beijing.

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The 2008 Olympic Bronze medallist Anthony Terras of France stepped back upon Beijing’s podium, winning the Skeet Men Final held on the same range of the Games. This time, the 24-year old athlete climbed up to the highest step of it, claiming Gold with an overall score of 145 hits (121+24).

Terras, who had started in third with a qualification score of 121 hits, turned the match in his favour throughout the final round, hitting 24 out of 25 targets. As his opponents started missing, he climbed in the lead, securing his first ISSF World Cup Final Gold medal.

First Terras tied and overtook the 2007 World Champion Georgios Achilleos of Cyprus, who lost four targets on the fourth station, and then USA’s Olympic Champion Vincent Hancock as he missed a clay on the second station and two on the fourth.

Leading with three targets of advantage after the fifth station, Terras lost one clay on the sixth, but then cleared the seventh and the eighth, finishing on the highest step of the podium with two targets of advantage on his followers.

Vincent Hancock, one of the favourite shooters to win this match as he leaded the ISSF World Championship last July, landed in second place with a total of 143 hits (122+21). “This is my third World Cup Final Silver medal – he said at the end of the match – I had won Silver last year, in Minsk, and Silver in 2005, in Dubai… there has been an issue with the targets, today. There should be a standard for flash targets, around the world.”

Cyprus’ Georgios Achilleos, 28, closed the final with 20 hits, and a total score of 142 targets, tying Norway’s Olympic Silver medallist Tore Brovold. The two athletes had to pass through a shoot-off, won by Achielleos, who secured Bronze by 8 hits to Brovold’s 7. The Norwegian shooter, who had entered the final match in sixth with 118 targets after the qualification, placed in fourth with a total score o f 142+7 hits.

Jabn Sychra of Czech Republic and the second Norwegian Finalist Harald Jensen finishd in fifth and sixth place with 140 and 139 targets, respectively.

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ISSF TV, in cooperation with the Slovenian national broadcaster Radiotelevizija Slovenija, will broadcast live today’s Skeet Men Final in Slovenia (RTV Slovenia) and Italy (RAI Sport Più). The final round will start at 4.30 PM local time.

The last match of this 2009 ISSF Shotgun World Championship in Maribor will be seen also in Russia, Norway and Cyprus, reaching a huge potential audience through the EBU (European Broadcasting Union) exchange platform.

Watch the final online!

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The 2008 Olympic Champion Vincent HANCOCK of the United States of America is the new Skeet Men World Champion. HANCOCK, 20-year old, won today’s final match with an almost perfect total score of 149 hits out of 150 targets, leaving the Silver medallist ACHILLEOS one target behind him.

No chances to his opponents.
HANCOCK walked into the final round with the highest qualification score of 124 hits out of 125 targets, and defended his leadership by shooting a perfect final of 25 hits, leaving no chances to his opponents. The young American shooter is not new to the World Championship spotlights: he had won the 2005 ISSF World Championship in Lonato (ITA), when he only was 16-year old.

Hancock won by coming back to his Olympic shotgun
“I went back to my old gun. I had changed my shotgun after the Games, but results did not come. I changed back to the shotgun I used in Beijing after the ISSF World Cup stage in San Marino, two months ago.” HANCOCK said right after the final. The American shooter did not shoot an international Gold medal since the Olympic Final of Beijing which took place the 16 of August 2008, exactly one year ago.

“I had done nothing this year, I was not used to it, so it feels great to be on the podium, today” Said HANCOCK, current World and Olympic record holder, Olympic Champion and two times World Champion. “My next appointment with the ISSF is the World Cup Final in Beijing, next October.”

The title defender ended up in second
The title defender, the Cypriot shooter Georgios ACHILLEOS of Cyprus, 28, finished in second place securing Silver with a total score of 148 targets. The Cypriot athlete shot a perfect final, hitting 25 targets, but he had walked into the match with a qualification of 123 hits, one target less than HANCOCK.

Bronze to the 41-year old Falco
Bronze went to the 1996 Olympic Champion of Atlanta, the 41-year old Italian shooter Ennio FALCO, ending up with a total of 147 hits (122+25). The Italian shooter won today his sixth World Championship’s medal out of a 25-year long sport career.

USA’s second finalist, the 44-year old Shawn DULOHERY, 2001 World Champion, finished in fourth place with a total score of 146 hits (122 +24), after missing a determinant target at the first station. Following him, Valery SHOMIN of Russia placed in fifth with a total of 145 targets after outdoing 4 targets to 3 Czech’s Leos HLAVACEK in a shoot-off.

USA atop of the team podium with a new record.

Vincent HANCOCK, together with his teammates Shawn DULOHERY and Frank THOMPSON, won the team Gold with an overall score of 366 hits out of 375 targets, setting a new World Record that shattered the previous 365-record set by the Italian team at the 2006 ISSF World Championship in Zagreb.

USA’s team distanced the followers by four targets. Coming in second, Finland (Marko KEMPPAINEN, Heikki MERILUOTO and Lauri LESKINEN) won the team Silver with a total score of 361 targets.

Team Bronze went to Denmark, thanks to Andres GOLDING, Jesper HANSEN and Michael NIELSEN, scoring a total of 361 targets.

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