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10m Running Target Mixed Men Stage 2

50m or 10m makes no difference for Sweden’s Martinsson, who claimed his second Gold medal in Suhl

ISSF World Championship Running Target · Suhl, GER

The Swedish shooter secured his second Gold medal in Suhl, after the one he claimed in the 50m Running Target Mixed Men event on Monday. Pak Myong Won and Tomi-Pekka Heikkila completed the podium, respectively in 2nd and 3rd position.

40 meters don’t make such a big difference for Sweden’s Emil Martinsson, who doubled the Gold medal he pocketed three days ago in the 50 meters range with today’s 10m Running Target Mixed Men one.

 

An almost perfect second stage allowed the 36-year-old to distance himself from Finland’s Tomi-Pekka Heikkila and Poland’s Lukasz Czapla, who were tied with him at the end of the first one with 193 points. Martinsson, indeed, scored 197 points in the second stage finishing with 390 and reaching the highest step of the podium for the sixth ISSF World Championship title of his great career.

 

“I think that the Mixed events are the tougher ones,” said Martinsson at the end of the medal ceremony. “And to me It doesn’t really matter if it’s 50 or 10 meters, the mixed events are my events.”

 

In 2nd position finished Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s Pak Myong Won, who also added his Silver medal to the Bronze he secured on Monday in the 50m Running Target Mixed Men event. On the 3rd step of the podium, then, Finland’s Tomi-Pekka Heikkila finally pocketed the individual World Championship medal he chased for the whole competition: in the two 50m events, in fact, Heikkila lost two shoot-offs, placing 4th in both events.

 

On the team’s podium Finland claimed the brightest medals with Heikkila, Heikki Lahdekorpi and Krister Holmberg, followed by Sweden with Martinsson, Niklas Bergstroem and Jesper Nyberg, and by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, who concluded 3rd with Pak, Jo Yong Chol and Ri Yong Hun.

 

The ISSF Running Target World Championship will continue tomorrow with the last two events of the competition: the 10m Running Target Mixed Women and the 10m Running Target Mixed Women Junior.

 

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Marco Vettoretti

 

ISSF Partners