USA’s Jamie Beyerle won the 50m Rifle 3 Positions Women final, closing the 2010 shooting season with more than 4 points of advantage on her followers.
USA’s Jamie Beyerle won the 50m Rifle Three Positions Women event at the ISSF World Cup Final in Munich, today. The 26-year old shooter, who placed in third at last year’s ISSF World Cup Final in Wuxi, had qualified for this year’s Final by winning her home match (the Fort Benning’s World Cup Stage) and a Silver medal at the first Stage of the year, in Sydney.
Starting today’s final round in first place with a score of 590 points, Beyerle shot solidly throughout the final, ending up on the highest step of the podium with a total score of 690.7 points.
The title defender, the winner of the 2009 World Cup Final, Serbia’s Lidjia Mihajlovic (42), made it into the final round with a qualification score of 590 points, tied to the qualification leader Bayerle. But by firing a frustrating 7.7 on her fourth competition shot, the Serbian shooter lost her chances of victory, leaving the Gold medal to Beyerle.
Fighting against Germany’s Pfeilschifter to save at least the second place, Mihajlovic ended up the final with a score of 96.5 points, grabbing the Silver medal with a total score of 686.5 points.
Germany finished again in the spotlights, during this 50m Rifle 3 Positions Women final. Three German shooters, Lechner, Pfeilschifter and Friedel entered indeed the final match, and tried their hardest to find a spot on the podium.
The home hero, Bavaria’s Sonja Pfeilschifter, confirmed to be one of the leading rifle shooters of the world once again, today. Winner of a World Cup Title in the 10m Air Rifle event yesterday morning, she battled her opponents since the first shot to climb up in second place.
Starting the match with 599 points (one point behind the leading couple Beyerle-Mihajlovic), Pfeilschifter shot a consistent final, eventually securing the Bronze medal with a total score of 685.9 points.
Pfeilschifter, 39-year old, had finished in second at the last ISSF World Championship held here in Munich, and won two other World Cup Finals in this event in her career, in 1999 and 2008.
The 2010 World Champion, the home shooter Barbara Lechner, 28, started the match with a lower qualification score, 585 points, and finished the round in fifth place with 683.0 points, overtaken by Croatia’s Snjezana Pejcic, fourth with 683.8 points.
At the same time, it was a 7.3 fired on her sixth competition shot that put the third German finalist, Eva Friedel, out of the games for the podium. The 26-year old athlete, who had qualified in seventh with 582 points, ended up in sixth place with a total of 679.8 points, just two tenths far from her teammate Lechner.