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Road to Changwon: Athletes to watch at season's 1st Rifle / Pistol World Cup


07.04.2015

After two shotgun competitions, it is time for the first rifle and pistol ISSF World Cup stage of the year in Changwon, KOR

The ISSF World Cup in Changwon (from April 8th to 16th) will be the season's first rifle and pistol competition. These are the most excellent athletes who will take part in the World Cup.


Australia's Lalita Yauhleuskaya, an Olympic Bronze at Sydney 2000, will compete in Women's 25m Pistol and 10m Air Pistol. Yauhleuskaya, 51, is a 21-time ISSF World Cup medalist, and she has also gained medals at World Cup Finals, European, Oceania and World Championships.


Alexander Schmirl, 25, will compete in Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions, 50m Rifle Prone, and 10m Air Rifle. He won two medals for Austria at the 2013 World Cup stage in Granada----one bronze at the 3 Positions, one gold at Prone. There, Schmirl came close to winning a medal in each of his events, as he came in fourth at the 10m Air Rifle.


Gernot Rumpler, 21, will be Austria's second hope in Schmirl's same events. As a Junior, Rumpler won bronze at last year's World Championship in Granada, and one gold and one bronze at two editions of the European Championship in 2012 and 2013.


Belgium's Lionel Cox, an Olympic Silver at London 2012, will compete in Men's 50m Rifle Prone. Cox, 33, won a bronze medal in Changwon at the ISSF World Cup stage in 2013.


Brazil's Felipe Almeida Wu, a Silver Medalist at the 2010 Youth Olympics in Singapore, will compete in Men's 50m Pistol and 10m Air Pistol. Wu, 22, came in 30th at last year's World Championship in Granada.


Wu's teammate, 45-year-old Julio Almeida, will compete in the same events. Almeida has won fourteenth medals amongContinental American Championships and Pan American Games.


Maria Grozdeva, a five-time Olympic Medallist from Bulgaria, will compete in Women's 25m Pistol and 10m Air Pistol. Grozdeva, 42, has also won two World Cup Final titles, eight European Championships, and 15 World Cup stages.Antoaneta Boneva, Grozdeva's teammate and a seven-time World Cup medalist, will compete in the same events.


China's team is rich with Olympic medalists and promising athletes.


Zhu Qinan, who won gold at the Athens and silver at the Beijing Olympics, will compete in Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions and 10m Air Rifle. Zhu, 30, won last year's World Championship in Granada.


Yang Haoran, 19, will compete in Zhu's same events. Yang won gold at last year's Youth Olympics in China, and World Championship in Spain. He won more medals at World Cup stages and Asian Shooting Championships.


Wang Zhiwei, an Olympic Bronze at London 2012, will compete in Men's 50m Pistol and 10m Air Pistol. Wang, 26, has also won two World Cup Final titles, and two World Cup stages.


Li Yuehong, 25, will compete in Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol. Li is a five-time World Cup medalist and a World Championship bronze.


Guo Wenjun, an Olympic Gold in both Beijing and London, will compete in Women's 10m Air Pistol. Guo, 30, has won seven World Cup stages.


Chen Ying, who won gold at Beijing 2008 and silver at London 2012, will compete in Women's 
Australia's Lalita Yauhleuskaya, an Olympic Bronze at Sydney 2000, will compete in Women's 25m Pistol and 10m Air Pistol. Yauhleuskaya, 51, is a 21-time ISSF World Cup medalist, and she has also gained medals at World Cup Finals, European, Oceania and World Championships.


Croatia's Snjezana Pejcic, an Olympic Bronze at Beijing 2008, will compete in Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions and 10m Air Rifle. Pejcic, 32, has won a World Cup Final title last year in Gabala, and a World Cup stage in Sydney in 2011.


Adela Sykorova of the Czech Republic, an Olympic Bronze at London 2012, will compete in Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions and 10m Air Rifle. Sykorova, 28, has won a World Cup Final title in Bangkok in 2012.


Gabriela Vognarova, Sykorova's teammate and a 22-year-old Silver Medalist at last year's Youth Olympics, will compete in Sykorova's same events.


Torben
 Grimmel of Denmark, an Olympic Silver at Sydney 2000, will compete in Men's 50m Rifle Prone. Grimmel, 39, has won a World Cup Final title and a World Cup stage--both in Milan, respectively in 2003 and 2008.


Spain's Pablo Carrera, a four-time World Cup medalist, will compete in Men's 50m Pistol and 10m Air Pistol. Carrera, 28, has won a silver medal at last year's World Cup Final in Gabala.


France's Celine Goberville, an Olympic Silver at London 2012, will compete in Women's 25m Pistol and 10m Air Pistol. Goberville, 28, has won four bronze medals in three World Cup editions in the last five years.


Also from France, five-time World Cup medalist Valerian Sauveplane, 34, will compete in Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions Men and 50m Rifle Prone.


Edouard Dortomb, 15-year-old and a Bronze at last year's Youth Olympics, will compete in Men's 10m Air Pistol.


Georgia's Nino Salukvadze, a three-time Olympic Medalist, will compete in Women's 25m Pistol and 10m Air Pistol. Salukvadze, 46, has won nine World Cup Final titles from 1989 to 2010.


Germany's Munkhbayar Dorjsuren, a two-time Olympic Bronze Medalist, will compete in Women's 25m Pistol and 10m Air Pistol. Dorjsuren, 45, has won one World Cup Final title and eight World Cup stages from 1996 to 2010.


Henri Junghaenel of Germany, an eight-time World Cup medalist, will compete in Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions, 50m Rifle Prone, and 10m Air Rifle. Junghaenel, 27, has won a World Cup Final title in 2013.


Christian Reitz, Junghaenel's teammate and an Olympic Bronze at Beijing 2008, will compete in Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol. Reitz, 27, is a 16-time World Cup medalist.


Hungary's Istvan Peni, 18, a Youth Olympic Bronze last year in Nanjing, will compete in Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions, 50m Rifle Prone, and 10m Air Rifle.


Peter Sidi of Hungary, a 24-time World Cup medalist, will compete in Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions, 50m Rifle Prone, and 10m Air Rifle. Sidi, 36, has won a World Cup Final title in Milan in 2003.


India's Abhinav Bindra, 32, an Olympic Gold at Beijing 2008, will compete in Men's 10m Air Rifle.


Italy's Niccolo Campriani, a two-time Olympic Medalist at London 2012, will compete in Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions, 50m Rifle Prone, and 10m Air Rifle. Campriani, 27, has won eight World Cup stages.


Petra Zublasing, Campriani's teammate and a gold medalist at last year's World Championship, will compete in Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions and 10m Air Rifle. Zublasing, 25, is also Campriani's girlfriend.


Japan's Tomoyuki Matsuda, 39, a 10-time World Cup medalist, will compete in Men's 50m Pistol and 10m Air Pistol.


Korea's Jin Jongoh, a five-time Olympic Medalist, will compete in Men's 50m Pistol and 10m Air Pistol. Jin, 35, has won two gold medals and broken a 34-year-old record at last year's World Championship in Granada.


Kim Jangmi, Jin's teammate and an Olympic Gold at London 2012, will compete in Women's 25m Pistol and 10m Air Pistol. Kim, 22, has won three World Cup stages in the past three years.


Norway's Ole Kristian Bryhn, 25, a gold medalist at last year's World Championship in Granada, will compete in Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions, 50m Rifle Prone, and 10m Air Rifle.


Russia's Nazar Louginets, 25, a four-time medalist last season, will compete in Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions, 50m Rifle Prone, and 10m Air Rifle.


Slovenia's Rajmond Debevec, a three-time Olympic Medalist, will compete in Men's 50m Rifle 3 Positions and 50m Rifle Prone. Debevec, 51, has won five World Cup Final titles from 1992 to 2012.


Serbia's Ivana Maksimovic, an Olympic Silver at London 2012, will compete in Women's 50m Rifle 3 Positions and 10m Air Rifle. Maksimovic, 24, has won a silver medal at last year's World Cup stage in Fort Benning.


Andrija Zlatic, Maksimovic's teammate and an Olympic Bronze at London 2012, will compete in Men's 50m Pistol and 10m Air Pistol. Zlatic, 37, is an eight-time World Cup medalist.


Ukraine's Pavlo Korostylov, a Youth Olympic Gold Medalist last year in Nanjing, will compete in Men's 50m Pistol and 10m Air Pistol. Korostylov, 17, won bronze at a World Cup stage in Munich last year.


USA's Emil Milev, an Olympic Silver at Atlanta 1996, will compete in Men's 25m Rapid Fire Pistol. Milev, 46, is a 15-time World Cup medalist.


Find out more about the World Cup stage in Changwon--scheduleentry listcomplete information.

Posted by Thom Erik Syrdahl
Source - ISSF Website

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