ITALY'S PETRA ZUBLASING CLAIMED 50M RIFLE 3
POSITION WOMEN GOLD IN FORT BENNING
With a record
score, and a great standing position in the final, the 24-year old athlete
claimed Italy's second Gold medal.
The Italian flag has been risen again, today, at
the 2014 ISSF Rifle and Pistol World Cup in Fort Benning, GA, USA, as Petra
Zublasing won the 50m Rifle 3 Positions Women event.
The 24-year old Italian shooter turned out to be
unbeatable, today. She qualified for the final match by setting a new world
record of 591 points, and then ended up on the highest step of the podium with
a final score 462.0 points in the medal match.
“It feels great. I set a new world record
during the qualifications, but with the new rules that does not count in the
final. You have to start from zero again, and build up the score shot after
shot.” Zublasing said.
“My Standing series made the difference,
during the final. I climbed back into the lead from the third place I had after
the prone, and I made it to the highest step of the podium.”
The Italian shooter ranked second after the
kneeling series, and then third after the prone series. But a great standing
score lifted her up in first place, just 0.7 points behind the Final World
Record of 462.7 points she had set at last year's ISSF World Cup Final in
Munich.
“Standing is not my specialty.” Zublasing
commented. “But I come from air rifle, where you compete in standing position,
so I guess I've built a certain experience. I am normally a slow shooter,
during the qualifications, but with the new rules you only have about 50 second
per shot, during the standing series in the medal match. The pressure of the
final pushes me to release the shots quicker than I normally do, but that
worked fine, today.”
“This world cup stage ended up in the best
way for me an Nicco (Niccolò
Campriani, Petra's teammate and boyfriend who won yesterday's 50m Rifle 3
Positions Men final, ed.). We were not
even supposed to compete here: the Italian team does not participate. But we
had been invited to visit the White House along with the West Virginia Rifle
team, so we took the chance to come, to train with our old team, and to
compete. It has been a good decision, after all!”
The Silver medal went to People's Republic of
China's Chang Jing, participating in her first ISSF World Cup final round here
in Fort Benning. The 26-year old shooter placed in second with a final score of
458.2 points, pocketing her first ISSF medal ever in this event.
Sarah Scherer, claimed Bronze with 447.2
points, winning the first medal of USA at this world cup stage. The 23-year old
rifle shooter had never won a world cup competition in this event, before.
Yulia Karimova (RUS), set a new Final World
Record Junior with 413.7 points, closing the match in sixth place.
31.03.2014
Posted by Thom Erik Syrdahl
Source - ISSF Website
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