The 300m Rifle Prone Women competition has been the highlight of the day, at the ISSF World Championship in all shooting events in Munich.
Aiming to a 10-point spot which has a diameter of 10 centimetres, from a distance of 300 meters, without any optics, it’s quite difficult.
To hit that 10-point spot 59 times during a competition is a record, a world record, which was equalled today by Switzerland’s Bettina Bucher, the new world champion in this event.
The 30-year old shooter, competing in her second international competition after the 2009 European Championship of Osijek, cleared the first 5 competition series, marking 50 consecutive 10s, dropping then one shot in the ninth ring on her last series, closing the match with a total of 599 points.
Charlotte Jakobsen, the Danish shooter who had set that 599 world record during the 2009 European Championships, finished in second place, securing the Silver medal with a total score of 597 points and 37 shots in the inner tenth. Jakobsen, one of the most successful women shooter on the 300-meter distance, had already finished twice on a World Championship podium in this event, winning the 2002 edition and securing a Bronze at the last championship in Zagreb in 2006.
The fight for the Bronze medal was won by France’s Catherine Houlmont, who finished in third place with 597 points and 29 inner-tenth hits, while the Norwegian expert Gyda Ellefsplass Ollsen was left in fourth with 597 points and 27 inner-tenth.