Czech Republic’s Milos Slavicek won the Skeet Men Junior competition, finishing in the lead with one target of advantage on his opponents.
Milos SLAVICEK of Czech Republic is the new
Skeet Men Junior World Champion. The 15-year old athlete won today’s
competition with a total score of 122 hits out of 125 targets, finishing in
first place with one target of advantage on his followers.
SLAVICEK, one of the youngest competitors
taking part in this 2009 ISSF Shotgun World Championship, had never
participated in a world-level competition, before. The 15-year old Czech
athlete debuted on the international scene at the European Championship of Osijek
(CRO) twenty days ago, placing in 29th.
SLVAICEK left
behind him the 2007 World Championship’s Silver and Bronze medallists Marcus SVENSSON
of Sweden and Wilfred BLANCHARD of the USA (the 2007 Junior World Champion
Anastasios CHAPESHIS did not come to defend his title).
Marcus
SVENSSON finished in second place winning is second consecutive Junior World
Championship Silver medal with a total score of 121 +4 hits. The Swedish
shooter outdid 4 targets to 3 the Italian athlete Angelo MOSCARIELLO in a
shoot-off for the second step of the podium. MOSCARIELLO finished in third,
grabbing Silver with a total of 121 +3 targets.
Vesa PIETARILA
of Finland, 20, who was leading after the first 75 targets, closed his
competition with a last series of 23 hits out of 25 targets. Any single drop
can be fatal at the World Championship: the Finnish shooter slid down in the
placements, landing in fourth place with a total score of 120 hits out of 125
targets, missing to grab podium just by one clay.
USA’s Wilfed
BLANCHARD (Bronze medallist at the last World Championship) ended up in fifth
place with a total score of 119 hits, followed by Sweden’s
Stefan NILSSON (the 2009 European Junior Champion) who closed in sixth place with a total of 117 targets after beating Russia’s Mikhail DOVGAL in a shoot-off.
Teams: Gold to Czech Republic
SLAVICEK's Czech Republic won the team Gold medal with an overall score of 353 hits (Milos SLAVICEK, JAkub TOMECEK, Jakub NOVOTA).
Team Silver went to the United States of America (Wilfred BLANCHARD, Jon McGRATH and Chris HAVER), with an combined score of 349 targets. Sweden placed in third winning team Bronze thanks to the 348 hits scored by Marcus SVENSSON, Stefan NILSSON and Robin GUSTAFSSON.