ISSF Junior World Cup Rifle / Pistol / Shotgun · Gabala, AZE
Artem Chernousov, Margarita Lomova and Alexey Belov secured today’s Junior Gold medals in the 10m Air Pistol Men, 10m Air Pistol Women and Skeet Men, respectively, while Czech Republic’s Nikola Foistova finished atop the podium in the 50m Rifle 3 Positions Women event.
Four more events took place today at the ISSF Junior World Cup in Gabala (AZE), who is taking place at the Gabala Shooting Club from September 16th to September 23rd.
10m Air Pistol Men Junior
The opening event of the day saw the Russian Federation and India monopolize both the individual and the team matches.
After claiming the 10m Air Pistol Men Junior Bronze medal at the ISSF Junior World Cup held Suhl (GER) last May, Russian 20-year-old Artem Chernousov climbed to the highest step of the podium in Gabala, building a comfortable lead on his closest rivals in the first half of the match, and securing the Gold medal despite missing the 10th ring with his last 6 shots. He finished with 199.7 points.
India’s Anmol Anmol (18), who was appearing in his first international competition, finished 2nd with 197.5 points, earning India’s third individual medal in Gabala. Another Russian shooter, Evgeniu Borovoi (20) claimed the Bronze medal with 175.8 points.
Despite finishing the qualification round with the best score, Russian Federation’s Alexander Bassariev (20) placed 4th with 154.8 points, followed by Georgia’s Tsotne Machavariani (18), who placed 5th with 135.0 and bested the result he recorded at this year’s Junior World Cup in Suhl (GER), where he placed 10th.
Another Russian shooter, 20-year-old Anton Zanin, Junior Bronze medallist at the 2016 European Championship in Gyor (HUN), placed 6th with 114.2 points.
Two Indian shooter finished in the bottom two positions of the finals: Hemendra Kushwah (20) placed 7th with 95.3 points, while Gaurav Rana (16) concluded in 8th position with 75.0. They were both appearing in an international competition for the first time.
On the team’s podium, the Russian Federation and India respectively placed 1st and 2nd, thanks to their finalists, while Georgia claimed the Bronze.
For the 10m Air Pistol Men Junior complete results click here.
For the 10m Air Pistol Men Junior photo gallery click here.
50m Rifle 3 Positions Women Junior
In the second event of the day, Nikola Foistova (18) earned the first Gold medal of the competition for the Czech Republic, ruling the 50m Rifle 3 Positions Women Junior event.
Foistova, who started slow and was placed 5th at the end of the kneeling series, followed with an amazing prone position performance, eventually taking the lead during the conclusive standing series and claiming the Gold medal with 451.5 points.
On the 2nd step of the podium, besting the Bronze she claimed at this year’s Junior World up in Suhl, placed Russian Federation’s Olga Efimova (17) with 450.6 points, followed by India’s Gaayathri Nithanadam (20), leader of the match at the end of the kneeling series, with 438.9 points.
Norway’s 19-year-old Jenny Vatne, placed 4th with 429.7 points, followed by another Russian and another Indian athlete: indeed, Daria Boldinova (17) placed 5th with 418.5 points and Dilreen Gill (20) finished 6th with 406.3. Both of them bested the result they obtained in Suhl, where Gill placed 15th and Boldinova placed 31st.
Eliminated after the first two series of standing shots, Norway’s Jenny Stene (18) and Qatar’s Aisha Al Suwaidi (18) respectively concluded 7th with 395.1 points and 8th with 386.4.
The team podium saw Norway claim the brightest set of medals, followed by the Russian Federation in 2nd place and by India in 3rd place.
For the 50m Rifle 3 Positions Women Junior complete results click here.
For the 50m Rifle 3 Positions Women Junior photo gallery click here.
10m Air Pistol Women Junior
20-year-old Margarita Lomova of the Russian Federation pocketed the second Gold medal of the day for her country, after Artem Chernousov secured theGold in the men’s 10m Air Pistol Junior this morning.
In the 10m Air Pistol Women Junior finals, Lomova earned herself a safe lead in the first half of the match, only to finish 0.1 points ahead of the Silver medallist, after blewing most of her advantage with a disappointing 8.5-9.1 combination in her seventh series.
Czech Republic’s Anna Dedova, in fact, shortened the gap between her and Lomova all along the second half of the match, but with 0.6 points to overcome with one shot left, she failed to overtake her Russian rival, finishing with 198.6 points against Lomova’s 198.7.
The Bronze medal went to Egypt’s Olympian Afef Elhodhod who finished with 177.0 points, placing 3rd one month after competing at Rio 2016, where she qualified for the Air Pistol finals and placed 5th.
The first of three Indian finalists, Harshada Nithave, concluded in 4th position with 153.4 points, followed by 14-year-old Elif Kirklar of Turkey, who placed 5th in her first participation to an ISSF competition, besting the 38th place she nailed at the 2016 European Championship in Gyor (HUN).
Two Indian shooters followed Kirklar: Yashaswini Singh Deswal (19), placed 6th with 115.4 points, matching the result she recorded at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing (CHN); while Malaika Goel (18) finished 7th with 94.0.
The first athlete to be eliminated from the finals was Australia’s 19-year-old Alison Heinrich, who placed 8th with 74.8 points.
India also secured the team’s Gold medal, followed by Turkey in 2nd position and by Uzbekistan who claimed the Bronze.
For the 10m Air Pistol Women Junior complete results click here.
For the 10m Air Pistol Women Junior photo gallery click here.
Skeet Men Junior
The third Junior Gold medal of the day for the Russian Federation was signed by Skeet Men shooter Alexey Belov, who climbed to the highest step of the podium after a thrilling shoot-off against Italy’s Edoardo Aloi (19), who was appearing here in his first ISSF competition.
After they both finished the Gold medal match with 12 target hits, it took eight more targets to crown Belov as the Gold medallist, after Aloi wasted the chance to claim the Gold medal and missed the decisive target in his second station.
In the Bronze medal match,16-year-old Daniel Korcak of the Czech Republic prevailed over Italy’s 19-year-old Valerio Palmucci, the 2015 Junior World Champion in Lonato (ITA), as the Italian missed his only target in the last station, while Korcak nailed a perfect 16.
To enter the Bronze medal match both Korcak and Palmucci had to go through a shoot-off with Russian Federation’s Sergey Demin (19), who missed first in the tie-breaker and finished 5th with 13 target hits.
Also eliminated after the semifinal, the third Russian semifinalist Aleksandr Krasnyatov (18) placed 6th with 12 hits.
The team Gold medal went to the Russian Federation, followed in 2nd position by the People’s Republic of China and in 3rd position by India.
For the Skeet Men Junior complete results click here.
For the Skeet Men Junior photo gallery click here.
Posted by Thom Erik Syrdahl
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