The Georgian shooter defeated her young opponents keeping the Cup she had won at last year’s World Cup Final in Wuxi
The 1988 Olympic Champion of Seoul, Georgia’s Nino Salukvadze, won her second consecutive ISSF World Cup Final by winning today’s 25m Pistol Women final in Munich.
The 41-year old shooter made it into the final round in fourth place with a qualification score of 578 points, but then she turned the tables of the match thanks to an excellent last series of 52.4 points that lifted her up in the lead.
Scoring 205.4 points in the final, for a total of 783.4 points, the Georgian athlete secured her second, consecutive ISSF World Cup title, one year after her victory on the shooting lines of Wuxi. Salukvadze had already won two ISSF World Cup Finals in this event in 1989 and 1993.
Following her in second, the 2004 Olympic Silver medallist of the Czech Republic, Lenka Maruskova, secured Silver with a total score of 781.9 points. Qualified in third place with 579 points, the 25-year old Czech shooter finished on the second step of the podium by marking 202.9 points during the final.
Bronze went to the qualification leader, today’s youngest medallist, 24-year old France shooter Celine Goberville.
Goberville, who had qualified for this event by winning a Silver medal at the ISSF World Cup Stage in Belgrade last June, made it into today’s final round in the lead with three points of advantage on her experienced followers.
But, after a malfunction on her fourth and last competition series, she slid down in the placement, landing in Bronze position with a total of 780.5 points.