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USA’s Dunn claimed the Skeet Women Gold

ISSF World Cup Shotgun · Lonato, ITA

Haley Dunn secured Gold with one target of advantage on the followers. Italy’s Spada won a three-way shoot-off grabbing Silver, leaving Great Britain’s Allen in third place.

USA’s Haley Dunn, 25, won today’s Skeet Women final, shooting at the Trap Conca Verde shooting club of Lonato, Italy, the set of the fourth and last step of this year’s ISSF World Cup Series in Shotgun events.

The American shooter, ranked nineteenth in the world, won her first 2010 Gold medal with a total score of 97 hits out of 100 targets, leaving her opponents in a three-way shoot-off for the Silver medal.

It’s great to be back on a World Cup podium, it has been a while!” said Dunn, who had won her last ISSF medal in 2008, at the World Cup stage held in Kerrville, Texas “In 2008, I lost the US selection for the Olympic team by one target. After that, I took me a while to re-elaborate all my thoughts and feelings. I am happy that I finally made it!”

Making it into today’s final match in the lead with a qualification score of 73 targets, the American shooter risked loosing the brightest medal on the second station, when she dropped a target wasting her head start on the followers.

Zeroing in, she cleared the remaining stations hitting 24 out of 25 targets, and landing on the highest step of the podium with a total score of 97 hits.

“I am back, and my next aim is the ISSF World Championship in Munich, where the first 2012 Olympic Quotas will be awarded. There, I will compete with Kimberly Rodhe and Amber English. It’s not going to be easy, but I am really motivated” Concluded Dunn, speaking about the 50th ISSF World Championship in all events that will take place in Munich between July and August.

And there is no doubt that the American Skeet Women team will be one of the protagonists, at the World Championship. USA’s shooters claimed indeed three Skeet Women gold medals out of this year’s four World Cup stages, Kimberly Rhode winning in Acapulco and Beijing, and Dunn here in Lonato.


Today’s Silver medal was taken by the Italian shooter Katiuscia Spada, who finished in second with a total score of 96+20 hits. The 26-year old home athlete won a three-way shoot-off for the second step of the podium, beating Great Britain’s Elena Allen, third with 96+19 clays, and the Slovakian champion Danka Bartekova, forth with 96+3 hits.

China’s Zhang Heng ended up in fifth place with a total score of 93 hits, while the second American finalist, Caitlin Connor, closed the match in sixth with a total score of 92 targets.

The Olympic Champion of Beijing 2008, Italy’s Chiara Cainero, who had won the last World Cup Stage held in Dorset (UK), did not make it to the final, today. The home court pressure tricked the Italian shooter, who ended up in 20th place with a total score of 67 (23+22+22) hits.


Next match: Skeet Men Final – Live on ISSF TV and RAI SPORT 2

The last medal match of the 2010 ISSF World Cup in Lonato, the Skeet Men final, will take place tomorrow afternoon, at 3.30 PM (Italian time). Follow the match live on www.issf-sports.org, or on RAI SPORT 2!

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