USA’s Daryl Szarenski left no chances to his opponents, walking into the final round with a four-point head start. He claimed the first ISSF Gold medal of his career, leaving Germany’s Ustaoglu in second and Ukraine’s Omelchuk in third.
USA’s Daryl Szarenski, 42, won the 50m Pistol Men even, claiming his first ISSF Word Cup Gold medal with a total score of 662.1 points.
The American shooter qualified for the final round in the lead with 564 points, walking into the final match in first place with a four-point advantage on his followers. Shooting consistently during the final round, he fired 98.1 points, finishing on the highest step of the podium with a total score of 662.1 points.
Szarenski had made it into two finals during the first ISSF World Cup Stage of the year, in Sydney. There, he had qualified for the 10m Air Pistol Men final, finishing then in fifth place, and had won a Bronze medal in the 50m Pistol Men event.
Following him today, Germany’s Abdullah Ustaoglu, 39, placed in second winning Silver with 656.4 points (560+96.4). Ustaoglu, competing on the international scene since ten years, had never finished on the podium, before.
The Bronze medal was taken by the 2008 Olympic Finalist Oleg Omelchuk, 26, form Ukraine. The young shooters, currently ranked 17th in the World, entered the final round with 559 points, six points less then the qualification’s leader Szarenski, and shot 94.2 points during the final to finish in third with a total score of 653.2 points.