GERMANY AND RUSSIA: HEAD TO HEAD FOR THE MEDALS
The first ISSF Junior Cup held in Suhl, Germany, from the 26 of May thorough the 1 of June, continued yesterday with four more medal events: 10m Air Pistol Junior Men and Junior Women, the 50m Rifle Prone Junior Men, and the 50m Rifle 3 Positions Junior Women competitions.
The second day of competitions saw a close duel between Germany and the Russian Federation, in Rifle and Pistol events.
The host country, Germany, celebrated a great success in the 50m Rifle 3 Positions Junior Women event, by placing 3 athletes atop of the podium, as well as 5 athletes among the top-8, and thus securing the team's Gold medal (1744 points) in front of the Russian Federation (1731 points). It was Selina Gschwandtner who finished upon the highest step of the podium, with an overall score of 458.7 points, after she beat her teammates Nina Laura Kreutzer (Silver medal with 457.8 points) and Yasmin Schulze (Bronze medal with 444.8 points).
The Ukraine and the Russian Federation met at the second competition of the day, the 10m Air Pistol Junior Men event. There, Ukraine's Bohdan Kyrylenko secured the Gold medal with 197.6 points, prevailing on the Russian athlete Aleksei Kuznetcov (195.5 points) and on his teammate Pavlo Korostylov (174.4 points). Thanks to Kyrylenko and Kuznetcov, Ukraine also pocketed the teams' Gold medal, ahead of Russia and Poland.
Among the Junior Women air pistol shooters, the Gold medal went to the Russian athlete Vitalina Batsarashkina, who scored 201.4 points to finish in first with a clear advantage on the Silver medallist, Poland's Agata Nowak, Silver with 194.1 points. Daria Lopatina, also from the Russian Federation, achieved the Bronze medal with 175.5 points, while the home shooter Josefin Eder narrowly missed the podium, finishing in fourth place.
The last medal match of the day, the 50m Rifle Prone Junior Men competition, turned in favor of Germany again. It was indeed the 19-year old German shooter Christoph Kaulich who pocketed the Gold medal, winning a final duel against Slovakia's Ondrej Holko 10.3 to 10.1 points after the two of them had tied with 208.6 points. The Bronze medal went to Australia's Raymond Woodhouse, who marked a final result of 184.5 points. As for the team standings, Czech Republic secured the brightest medal with 1848.9 points, followed by France and Russia on the second and third step of the podium.
The ISSF Junior Cup continues today in Suhl. Follow the results on: http://www.results.sius.com/Championships.aspx
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