Sonja PFEILSCHIFTER won the 10m Air Rifle Women final match. She had set the current Final World Record here in Milan one year ago. Following her on the podium, the home athlete Petra ZUBLASING secured Silver.
The left-handed German Champion Sonja PFEILSCHIFTER, 38, claimed Gold at the 10m Air Rifle Women final round while shooting in the first competition-day of the ISSF World Cup in Rifle and Pistol events in Milan, Italy.
The German shooter, an expert of Milan’s shooting range (she had won the world cup stage held here in 2008 by setting a new final world record), shot today’s Gold with a total score of 502.0 points (399+103.0).
Pfeilschifter, a world record holder in this event, turns out to be one of the main protagonists of this year’s ISSF World Cup Series. Milan’s Gold is her second world cup medal, this year, following the Silver she had secured on the lines of the 1972 Olympic shooting range of Munich, Germany, last week.
Coming in second place, the 19-year old Petra ZUBLASING of Italy secured Silver with the support of her home spectators. She shot the highest final round of 103.4 points, totalizing a score of 501.5 points.
The young shooter, awarded as Junior European Champion last February, had never won an ISSF World Cup medal before. “I had never won a world cup medal before, it’s so good to be on the podium here in Milan, in front of all this spectators. I would not say that Milan’s is my home range, but still I feel great. I hope I will keep on shooting good results: I am studying engineering, training and working at the same time. That’s not easy!”
Bronze went to the 20-year old Chinese shooter Jieqiong XIE, who placed in third with 501.4 (398+103.4) points, just one tenth of a point less then Silver medallist ZUBLASING. XIE debuted in the ISSF World Cup series last April, at the world cup stage held in Changwon (KOR) where she won a Silver medal.
The winner of the previous ISSF World Cup stage of Munich, Ukraine’s Darya SHYTKO, 23, placed in fourth with 500.1 (398+103.4) points.