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Final 10m Air Pistol Women

Air Pistol W – Arunovic contradicted the world raking to win Olympic Quota

50th ISSF World Championship All Events · Munich, GER

Serbia’s Zorana Arunovic won the 10m Air Pistol Women even, claiming the world title and securing an Olympic Quota place (a pass for London 2012) for Serbia.

The 22-year old shooter from Belgrade, ranked 50th in the world, won the competition with a total score of 486.8 points, beating some of the most titled pistol shooters of the world, and defying all the predictions of the experts.

The Serbian shooter entered the final round in second place with 385 points, one points behind the qualification leader Mira Suhonen of Finland, and then climbed in the lead by shooting 101.8 points (today’s highest final score) throughout the ten-shot final.

Arunovic, who had never won an ISSF medal in this event before, also grabbed one of the six Olympic Quota places to be awarded to the finalists of this event. Hers was the second Olympic qualification ticket gained by Serbia during this championship, following the Quota secured by Mirosavljev in rifle events.

The Silver medal went to Australia’s Lalita Yauhleuskaya who finished in second place with 485.0 points after outdoing Belarus’ Viktoria Chaika 9.1 to 8.2 in a shoot-off.

The 46-year old Australian pistols shooter also claimed an Olympic Quota, booking a place in the London 2012 Olympics, which would be her fifth participation in the Games since 1996.

Vikotria Chaika, a 1998 Junior World Champion who had finished on the third step of the 2006 World Championship podium, closed today’s competition in third with 485.0 points, after firing a frustrating 8.2 in the shoot-off against Yauhleuskaya. The 29-year old shooter, ranked sixth in the world, also securing a Quota Place for her country, the first in this event.

The fourth Olympic Quota went to the 2004 Olympic medallist Lenka Maruskova of Czech Republic, foruth with 482.3 points. The 24-year old Czech shooter beat the qualification leader Mira Suhonen, 25, form Finland, who fired a couple of frustrating shots in the eighth ring, sliding down in fifth place with a total score of 482.3 points.

The 2008 Olympic Champion Guo Wenjun lost the duel for the sixth and last Olympic Quota place, missing the qualification to London 2012. The 26-year old shooter, ranked first in the world in this event, shot neck and neck with her younger teammate Su Yuling, eventually finishing in seventh place with 480.8 points, just 0.2 behind Su, who grabbed the Quota Place. Guo, competing internationally since 2006, had never participated in an ISSF World Championship, before.  

The Australian team of the Silver medallist Lalita Yauhleuskaya and her teammates Dinal Aspanfiyarova and Linda Ryan, scored a total of 1145 points, beating Korea and China to finish atop of the teams’ podium.

Lee Ho Lim, Kim Byung Hee and Park Minjin of Korea finished in second place, winning the Teams’ Silver with a total score of 1143 points, while Guo Wenjun, Su Yuling and Zhang Jingjing brought China on the third step of the podium with 1142 points.



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