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Final 10m Air Rifle Women

Katerina Emmons’s golden comeback

ISSF World Cup Rifle / Pistol · Sydney, AUS

The 2008 10m Air Rifle Women Olympic Champion Emmons of Czech Republic returned to an ISSF podium together with her daughter Julia. Shooting in the lead since the first shot, she won today’s 10m Air Rifle Women final at the ISSF World Cup in Sydney.

The 2008 Olympic Champion of Beijing Katerina Emmons came back competing in an ISSF World Cup after having her daughter Julia, and she came back in the best possible way, by winning the 10m Air Rifle Women Gold medal. Making into the final with an outstanding qualification score of 399 points (one point far from the World Record she already holds), Emmons claimed Gold by shooting the highest final of the day (104.1 points), ending up on the highest step of the podium with a total score of 503.1 points.

Competing in front of a crowded final hall, at the 2000 Olympic Shooting Range of Sydney, the Czech Champion stepped on the podium holding on her daughter Julia, and received her first ISSF World Cup Gold medal since 2008.


Malaysia’s first time medallist, Nur Suryani Mohd Taibi, secured Silver by climbing the scoreboard all the way up from the eighth place. The 27-year old athlete had squeezed into the final round passing through a shoot-off, with a qualification score of 396 hits. Then, her final score of 103.8 points landed her in second place, to receive the first ISSF medal of her sport career , with a total of 499.8 points. 


Also qualified for today’s final through a shoot-off with a score of 396 points, USA’s Olympic Finalist of Beijing Jamie Beyerle secured Bronze with a total score of 499.6 points. Shooting solidly, she scored 103.6 points throughout the final match, finishing just two tenths of a point far from the Silver medallist.


The 2008 and 2009 World Cup Final winner Wu Liuxi of China, currently ranked third in the World, did not make it to the podium, today. The 25-year old athlete ended up in fourth place with 499.2 points, missing the medals by a few determinant tenths. She was followed by Iran’s first time finalist Mahlagha Jambozorg, 18, who closed the round in fifth place after outdoing China’s Liu Bo in a shoot-off by 10.0 to 8.9 points.


The two teammates Lee Kyerim and Gu Sura of Korea, both competing in an ISSF international final for the first time, placed in seventh a and eighth place with 497.5 and 497.0 points, respectively.

Marco Dalla Dea

 

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