Final 10m Air Rifle Women
52nd ISSF World Championship All Events · Changwon, KOR
17-year-old Im Hana won the 10m Air Rifle Women event in a crowded finals hall, besting India’s Anjum Moudgil and her more-experienced teammate Jung Eunhea, who respectively took silver and bronze.
The first world title for the host country and two Olympic quota places: Republic of Korea’s Im Hana and Jung Eunhea drove the crowd crazy at the Changwon International Shooting Centre, where they pocketed a gold-bronze combination in the 10m Air Rifle Women event, also claiming two of the four Olympic quota places up for grabs.
17-year-old Im, who is participating here in the first world championship of her career, was standing in 5th place after the first 5-shot series, and in 3rd after the second one. There, the young Korean shooter fired a series of impressive shots, hitting the 10th ring for 14 consecutive times and definitely grabbing the top position after shot number 14. The new World Champion, who made her 4th appearance ever in an ISSF competition, concluded with 251.1 points.
“I feel so grateful for this gold medal,” said the new World Champion. “It’s been such a pleasure to win in front of all these Korean people!”
The podium was completed by another Korean shooter: Jung Eunhea, indeed, joined Im and Moudgil on the podium after she led the scoreboard in the earliest part of the match. The 28-year-old from Incheon claimed the bronze medal with 228.0 points.
The other two Olympic quota places were awarded to Moudgil and to the second Indian shooter in the final — 25-year-old Apurvi Chandela — who took 4th place with 207.0 points. Chandela was followed by Singapore’s Adele Tan Qian Xiu (19), who barely missed the Olympic slot and finished in 5th place with 184.3 points.
The former World Champion of the Air Rifle event — Italy’s 29-year-old Petra Zublasing — left the contest after shot number 14, taking 7th place with 142.9 points. Two shots later, it was Chinese Taipei’s Lin Ying-Shin who left the match: the 19-year-old athlete, currently number 2 in the World Ranking in this event, concluded in 6th position with 163.4 points.
Germany’s Isabella Straub was the first shooter eliminated from the final: the 27-year-old, who made her first appearance in an ISSF final match, finished with 122.1 points and took 8th place.
On the team podium, the Republic of Korea secured the gold medal with 1886.2 points, setting a new World Record in the women’s 10m Air Rifle event. The silver medal was awarded to India with 1879.0 points, while the bronze medal went to Germany with 1878.4.
Kamenskiy claims air rifle title and Tokyo 2020 quota
2016 Olympic silver medalist and European Champion Sergey Kamenskiy of the Russian Federation, 30, won today’s 10m Air Rifle Men event at the 52nd ISSF World Championship in all events in Changwon, South Korea.
The Russian champion climbed up the scoreboard with a strong series of tens, landing atop of the podium with 248.4 points.
After leading through most of the final match, Kamenskiy jeopardized his match on the second last shot, when he fired a frustrating 8.9 - the only shot out of the 10th ring of his competition.
With one shot to go, he found himself tied in the lead with Croatia’s Peter Gorsa.
The last shot turned into a shoot-off for gold. A single shot that Kamenskiy cleared with a brilliant 10.6 to Gorsa’s 9.7, pocketing the brightest medal at the end of a thrilling match. The second Croatian finalist Miran Maricic followed them in third place, claiming bronze with 227.3 points.
“I am still shaking, it has been an amazing final.” Kamenskiy said.
The Russian athletes, as well as the following three finalists, won a Tokyo 2020 Olympic Quota place, a spot to participate in the next Games.
“I won the Tokyo 2020 quota place for my country.” He commented. “I will now have to keep on competing to pass the selections to make it to the Olympic team, but today’s is an important step forward.”
Silver medalist Peter Gorsa scored 247.5 points to climb on the podium, and collect the second Olympic quota awarded today.
“I met Sergey Kamenskiy for the first time at the 2006 ISSF World Championship in Zagreb, we were both shooting in the junior category at that time. We’re friends since then. 12 years later, today, we are still here together, and it’s great to share the podium with him.”
“I think that nobody expected Croatia to win two Olympic quota places today. But we’re a strong team, and we will now work hard to be prepared for Tokyo 2020.”
China’s Hui Zicheng, 22, followed the medalists in fourth place with 206.1 points, securing the fourth and last Olympic quota to be awarded at today’s final.
The title defender, 2014 Wolrd and Youth Olympic Game Champion Yang Haoran of the People’s Republic of China followed him in fifth place with 185.7 points, ahead of India’s Deepak Kumar (164.1 points), Mahyar Sedaghat of Iran (143.0 points) and of South Korea’s Nam Taeyun (121.4 points).
Hui and Yang met again atop of the teams’ podium, as the People’s Republic of China (Yang Haoran, Hui Zicheng, Yu Haonan) secured the team’s gold medal with a combined score of 1887.4 points, a new world record.
The Russian Federation followed in second with 1884.0 points scored by Kamenskiy, Vladimir Maslennikov and Alexander Dryagin.
The host nation, South Korea, made it on the podium with 1878.5 points, thanks to Nam Taeyun, Kim Hyeonjun and Song Soojoo.
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