After the Slow Run rounds of the Day-1, Sweden’s Emil Andersson and Tetyana Yevseyenko are leading the 10m Running Target Men and Women events. Tomorrow, the Fast Run rounds and the Medal Match will close the competition.
Emil ANDERSSON of Sweden and Tetyana
YEVSEYENKO of Ukraine leaded the first day of competition of the 10m Running
Target Men and Women competition. During this “Day-1” the Men and Women
athletes shot the Slow Run rounds, the first half of the competition, that will
be followed by tomorrow’s Fast Run rounds and by the Medals Matches.
10m Running Target Men – Day-1 / Slow
Run
The reigning World Champion, Sweden’s Emil
ANDERSSON, 29, leaded the 10m Running Target Men Slow Run rounds. After
shooting two perfect rounds of 100 points, the Swedish athlete closed the
“Day-1” with a 94-point series, finishing the “Day-1” in the lead with a score
of 294 points.
ANDERSSON only has one point of advantage
on the following Dmitry ROMANOV of Russia, the winner of yesterday’s 10m
Running Target Mixed Men event. ROMANOV ranked in second with 293 points,
followed by Peter PELACH of Slovakia, third with 292 points, today.
ANDERSSON had finished in fourth at
yesterday’s 10m Running Target Mixed Men event, missing the podium by one point
in a determinant shoot-off. Tomorrow he will have a chance to confirm the World
Championship title he had won last year in Plzen. The Swedish shooter will have
to pass through the Fast Run rounds, looking for a spot in the Medal Match that
will close the competition assigning the medals.
10m Running Target Women – Day-1 / Slow
Run
Ukraine is leading the 10m Running Target
Women event, placing three athletes in the first three positions after the Slow
Run rounds. Tetyana YEVSEYENKO, 23, Junior Bronze medallist at the 2006 World
Championships in Zagreb, ranked first at the end of the Day-1, with a total of 194
out of 200 points. Her teammate, the reigning World Champion Galina AVRAMENKO, follows
in second place only one target behind, with a total Slow Run score of 193
points.
Viktoriya ZABOLOTNA, Silver medallist at
yesterday’s 10m Running Target Mixed Women event, ranked in third place with 189
points, and completes the Ukrainian trio which will try to climb the podium
passing through tomorrow’s Fast Run rounds.
Results:
Results of the 10m Running Target Men event
(Day-1 / Slow Run)
Results of the 10m Running Target Women
event (Day-2 / Slow Run)