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Final 10m Air Pistol Women

10m Air Pistol W – Olympic Champion Guo in the spotlights

ISSF World Cup Rifle / Pistol / Shotgun · Beijing, CHN

The top-ranked Chinese shooter won with ease on the lines of her home range, managing her two-point head start to win her first 2010 Gold medal. She had finished on the podium also at the first 2010 ISSF World Cup Stage in Sydney, grabbing a Bronze medal in this event.

The home shooter Guo Wenjun, ranked first in the world, won Gold at today’s 10m Air Pistol Women event. The Chinese athlete secured the brightest medal coming back atop of Beijing’s podium two years after her Olympic victory at the 2008 Games.

Shooting solidly in front of her home supporters, the 25-year old Chinese shooter cleared the qualification rounds with an excellent qualification score of 388 points, placing her first on the final’s start list with two points of advantage on the followers. Displaying great confidence, Guo took her time during the final round, managing her head start and securing the Gold medal with a total score of 489.2 (388+101.2) points.

The Chinese athlete keeps on winning in this event since the 2008 Olympic Games. Following the Olympic Gold won here in Beijing, she became an undoubted protagonist of the ISSF World Cup Series, winning both the 2008 and the 2009 World Cup Finals. Ranking first in the World in the 10m Air Pistol event, and between the bests in the 25m Pistol Women event, she stands as the women to beat on the path leading to the 50th ISSF World Championship in all event, where next August in Munich the first quota places for the 2012 Olympic Games will be distributed.

Following her three points behind, Silver was taken by the first-time medallist Lioubov Iaskevitch of the Russian Federation. The 25-year old athlete, competing on the international stage since 2002, ended up in second place with a total score of 486.7 (384+102.7) points, after firing the highest score of today’s final.

Iaskevitch climbed up from the seventh place after the qualification, overtaking the second Chinese finalist Su Yuling (who landed in sixth with 481.9 points) and the Korean first time finalist Kim Seon A, who closed the round in third place winning Bronze with 483.9 (384+99.9) points.


Marco Dalla Dea

 

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