Germany's Christine Brinker won her second, consecutive, World Champion title in the Skeet Women event.
The German shooter Christine BRINKER won the Skeet Women final, defending the World Champion title she had won at the last World Championship in Cyprus, two years ago.
BRINKER, an Olympic Bronze medallist of Beijing 2008, won Bronze at this year’s ISSF World Cup Stage in San Marino and at the European Championships in Osijek. She was not climbing on the highest step of an ISSF podium since 2007.
Brinker is back in good shape
“I am back in good shape. I had some problems at the beginning of this season, I have been hill for a while. But I trained and I prepared this competition and… it’s just great to confirm my title!” Said the confirmed World Champion Brinker.
“I suffered at the beginning of the season then, two weeks ago, I shot quite well at the Europeansm, where I shot Bronze. Here I gave my best, I am really satisfied about my scores.” Continued the 28-year old BRINKER, who shot today’s Gold medal with a total score of 95 hits out of 100 targets.
The Champion took advantage of her oppoent's mistakes
The German shooter qualified for the final round with a score of 72 hits, climbing then the scoreboard during the final round with 23 targets. BRINKER took advantage of her opponent’s mistakes, overtaking the qualification’s leader JIEWCHALOEMMIT.
“This is not a difficult shooting range, but we could not train on the final range. And on this range has a slightly different background. This is way we all dropped so many targets during the final: the background made it complicate. I had won a World Cup shooting on this range in 2006, this helped me a little bit,” commented BRINKER about the numerous targets dropped by the other finalists during the match.
“I am going to be quite busy, now. I am getting married in September!” Concluded BRINKER, who will marry the German shooter Tino WENZEL the next 9th of September.
Silver to the Thai finalist
The Silver medal went to the Thai shooter Sutiya JIEWCHALOEMMIT, 23-year old, the Silver medal winner of this year’s ISSF World Cup in Cairo. The Thai shooter qualified for the final round with the highest score of 72 hits, but during the match she lost four targets, ending up in second place with a total of 94 hits.
A shoot-off for Bronze
The Italian Katiuscia SPADA followed in third, winning Bronze with a total of 93 +3 targets after passing through a shoot-off against Russia’s Olga PANARINA. SPADA concluded a positive season, centring the World Championship podium after winning a Bronze at this year’s ISSF World Cup in Minsk and a Silver medal at the last European Championship in Osijek.
The Olympic Champion in fifth place
The Olympic Champion of Beijing, the Italian athlete Chiara CAINERO, made it to the final round but did not find her way to the podium. After starting with great determination, the Italian champion missed on the fourth and the fifth station, sliding down in the scoreboard and eventually landing in fifth place with a total score of 92 targets. She had claimed her last international Gold medal just two months ago, winning the ISSF World Cup stage in San Marino.
Danka BARTEKOVA of Slovakia entered the final match passing through a shoot-off, and closed her final in sixth place with a total score of 89 hits.
Teams: Russia in the lead
The Russian Federation’s team shot the team Gold of the Skeet Women event. Olga PANARINA, Svetlana DEMINA and Nadezda KONOVALOVA shot a total of 211 targets.
Following them two targets behind, the Italian team (Katiuscia SPADA, Chiara CAINERO and Cristina VITALI) won the Silver medal with a total score of 209 hits.
BARTEKOVA’s Slovakia (Danka BARTEKOVA, Lenka BARTEKOVA, Monika ZEMKOVA) shot the team Bronze with 204 targets.