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Double Trap Men Junior

Double Trap Men Junior – Russia, Italy and USA on the podium

ISSF World Championships Shotgun · Maribor, SLO

Russia's Miroshnichenko won the Double Trap Junior Gold. Russia, Italy and USA climbed on the team podium.

The 20-year old Russian athlete Vladimir MIROSHNICHENKO won today’s Double Trap Men Junior competition, securing the individual Gold medal and lifting the Russian Junior team on the highest step of the team podium.

The young Russian shooter won today’s competition with a total score of 143 out of 150 targets, leaving his opponents four targets behind him.

MIROSHNICHENKO, a three –time European Championship medallist, had competed both in the 2006 and 2007 ISSF World Championships, but he had never made it into the top-3 so far.

The Silver and the Bronze medal were assigned through a three-way shoot-off between Italy’s GASPARINI and CHIANESE and USA’s William CRAWFORD.

The 16-year old American shooter CRAWFORD, at his first international experience, turned out to be the first to miss in the shoot-off, lading in fourth place with a total score of 139 +4 targets.

Italy’s Davide GASPARINI, 19-year old, at his first world-level competition, outdid his teammate Alessandro CHIANESE, winning Silver with a total of 139 +7 targets.

The 19-year old Italian athlete CHIANESE placed in third winning Bronze. CHIANESE, Junior Silver medallist at the last European Championship of Osijek (CRO) two weeks ago, had taken part also in the 2007 World Championship in Nicosia, where he had placed in eighth.


Junior Teams podium: Russia, USA and Italy
MIROSHNICHENKO’s top result pushed the Russian Federation Junior team in the lead. Russia (Vladimir MIROSHNICHENKO, Artem NEKRASOV and Maksim LAZAREV) shot the team Gold with a total score of 413 targets.

Following in second, the United States of America won the Junior team Silver medal thanks to the overall result of 407 targets scored by William CRAWFORD, Derek HALDEMAN and Bryce GEARHART.

Alessandro CHIANESE, Davide GASPARINI and Marco VANNUCCI of Italy won the team Bronze medal with a total of 402 hits.

Marco Dalla Dea

 

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