USA’s Richmond won the Double Trap event by shooting a consistent competition. While everybody around him missed, he kept the right concentration finishing in the lead with 188 hits and winning the first USA’s medal at the 2009 ISSF World Cup in all events of Munich.
Richmond shot USA’s first medal.
USA’s Joshua RICHMOND won today’s Double Trap men competition at the ISSF World Cup in all events in Munich. The 24-year old American athlete shot a total of 188 out of 200 targets (145 qualification + 43 final) to finish in first.
“The new shooting venue is great, qualification’s scores have been extreme: usually 142 or a 143 hits are enough to start a final round in first or second place. Here, 143 was not enough to make into the final match.” Richmond said after the final round “Things changed in the final, the speed of the target seemed to be different, the flash targets are heavier and fly slower… that’s why you have seen all those zeros. – continued the American shooter – I did not realize I was moving up in first place. I saw the other were missing, but I focus on my pairs only… and that worked!”
GBR’s Faulds came back on an ISSF podium grabbing Silver.
Silver went to the 2000 Olympic Champion Richard Faulds of Great Britain with 187 (143+44) hits. The English shooter had to shoot-off to get into the final match, and he shoot-off to get out of it beating Qatar’s AL-ATHBA 2 to 1 hits in a shoot-off for Silver.
Faulds came back on an ISSF podium one year after the ISSF World Cup in Belgrade where he had shot silver. During last year’s ISSF world cup series, the talented double trap shooter had won the world cup stage in Suhl, Germany, and two silver medals at the world cup stages in Belgrade and Kerrville, USA.
Qatar Al-Athba shot his second podium in two weeks.
Loosing the shoot-off against Great Britain’s Faulds, Rashid Al-Athba of Qatar closed his match in third place, grabbing a Bronze medal with 187 (144+43) hits. We saw the 28-year old athlete winning a Silver medal at the last ISSF World Cup in shotgun events in Cairo, just one week ago.
Dahlby’s match: from first to sixth place.
Richmond had started the final round in second place, behind the qualification’s leader Hakan Dahlby of Sweden, who had qualified with 146 hits. The a 43-year old world cup multi-medallist fell in the second half of the match, dropping 14 out of 50 targets. He landed in sixth place, with a total score of 182 (146+36) targets, following Germany’s Waldemar SCHANZ (fourth, 186 targets) and the second American finalist Jeffrey Holguin (fifth with 185 targets).