Two ladies, USA’s Jamie Beyerle and Gerogia’s Nino Salukvadze won the traditional Champions Trophy that closed the 2010 ISSF World Cup Final in Munich.
The traditional Champion Trophy sponsored by SIUS Ascor closed the 2010 ISSF World Championship in Rifle and Pistol events in Munich.
Only the medallists of the 10 Olympic events were eligible to participate in this classic money-price competition, where the usual rules of shooting are subverted: the audience is indeed pushed by the speaker to be “as loud as possible” while cheering, no matter what that means for the shooters’ concentration.
The formula of the Champions Trophy is as easy as challenging: put the top shooters of the world on a 10-meter line, let them choose between an air pistol and an air rifle, and let them shoot in a direct-elimination round.
After four competition shot, the athlete with the lowest score goes out, and from there on one shooter has to leave the match after every shot. When only two athletes remain on the firing line, the total goes back to zero, and three more shots are fired to decide the winner of the Champions Trophy.
5000 Euros wait for the winners, thanks to the SIUS ASCOR Company, the targets and results provider for this competition, which sponsors the match.
It was USA’s Jamie Beyerle who won the Air Rifle Champions Trophy, outdoing the home shooter Sonja Pfeilschifter. Beyerle (winner of the 50m Rifle 3 Positions Women event) had won also the last Champions Trophy’s edition at the 2009 ISSF World Cup Final in Wuxi.
At the same time, between the pistol shooters, the SIUS ASCOR award went to Nino Salukvadze of Gerogia, who had won the 25 Pistol Women event just yesterday. “The Champions trophy is simply the best way to close an ISSF World Cup Final!”