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-17 to the Games. Jin Jong Oh chases the 10m Air Pistol Men Gold

XXX Olympic Games · London, GBR

EVENT PREVIEW: Who will pocket Gold at Pistol’s first final, in London, on the 28th of July? The 2012 Olympic Games will kick-off in less then 20 days, let’s take a look at the ISSF NEWS Magazine’s “Super25 Chart”, a statistic ranking based on the results of the last Olympic cycle (2009-2012).

Current 10m Air Pistol Men Olympic Champion, China’s Pang Wei was unable to reach his best performance during the last Olympic cycle. The 26-year old shooter – who married to 10m Air Rifle Olympic Champ Du Li after the 2008 Games - finished on a couple of podiums in this event, and scored some good results in the 50m Pistol Men event. But he lost several spots in the world ranking, and in the ISSF NEWS Magazine’s “Super 25 Chart” he ended up in 15th place.

 

A number of talented shooters challenged him during the last four years, and his place at the top of the international rankings was taken by Korea’s 50m Pistol Olympic Champion Jin Jong Oh, who is competing in both events. Jin scored the highest qualification of the last cycle, with a personal best of 594 points, and one of the best finals, 103.4 points. In addition, he confirmed to be in great shape at the last ISSF World Cup Stage of the year, held in Munich at the end of May, when he won both the pistol men events.

 

His young team-mate Lee Daemyung, 24 years old, also finished under the spotlights by winning the Gold medal at the pre-Olympic ISSF World Cup on the lines of the RAB Final Hall in London last April. The two team-mates are currently going through a heavy preparation period to peak for the Games, where they will probably meet two other Asian champions, ready to challenge them. Japan’s Matsuda Tomoyuki, the current World Champion, is one of the top-ranked shooters in this event. Although he is focusing on the 50m Pistol competition, he might earn a medal on the 10-meter distance as well, as he did four times during the last Olympic cycle.

 

China’s Tang Zongliang will also be part of the match. Returning to international shooting in 2011 after being absent for a couple of years, he climbed up the international ranking to the first place, becoming one of the favorites to win a medal in London. But European shooters will not just sit and watch others collecting medals. Russia’s Leonid Ekimov is third in our “Super25 Chart”, after winning 3 ISSF events out of 8 participations in the last four years. Full of motivation, and with the right skills, Ekimov could make it. The 25-year old shooter has already acquired valuable Olympic experience in Beijing, at the age of 21, when he made it to the final match and eventually finishing in fifth. His team-mate Vladimir Isakov, a 42-year old shooter who won Bronze in this event at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, is also ready to challenge the Asian experts, along with Serbian team-mates Mikec and Zlatic, two expert pistol shooters who we will introduce in the 50m Pistol Olympic preview in the next days. They are all so close, that the fight for the podium promises to be breath-taking.

 

10m Air Pistol Men

Date of the Final in London: Saturday, 28.07.2012 at 15:30

 

Reigning Olympic Medallists

Rank

Name (NOC)

2008 OG Score             

1

PANG Wei (CHN

688.2 (586+102.2)      

2

JIN Jong Oh (KOR)

684.5 (584+100.5)

3

TURNER Jason (USA)

682.0 (583+99.0)

 

 

Current World Ranking Leaders

Rank

Name (NOC)

1

TAN Zongliang (CHN)

2

JIN Jong Oh (KOR)

3

DIKEC Yusuf (TUR)

 

 

Current World Record Holder

Record

Name (NOC)

Score

Date

Competition

WR 

JIN Jong Oh (KOR)

594 

12.04.2009 

WC Changwon (KOR)

FWR 

PYZHIANOV Sergei (URS)

695.1 (593+102.1) 

13.10.1989 

WCF Munich (FRG)

 

 

Current Olympic Record Holder

Record

Name

Score

Date

Competition

OR 

NESTRUEV Mikhail (RUS)

591 

14.08.2004 

OG Athens (GRE)

FOR 

WANG Yifu (CHN)

690.0 (590+100.0) 

14.08.2004 

OG Athens (GRE)

 

 

ISSF NEWS Magazine Super 25 Chart

Name (NOC)

  World  

Olympic 

  2009-2012 Results  

  2009-2012  

  Best Results 

Rank

  Participation  

Starts

Finals

Wins

 Medals

Quali

Finals

JIN Jong Oh (KOR)

2

2

9

7

4

6

594

103.4

LEE Daemyung (KOR)

5

1

9

5

1

4

591

101.3

EKIMOV Leonid (RUS)

13

1

8

4

3

3

591

104.2

MATSUDA Tomoyuki (JPN)

16

1

15

4

2

3

586

103.4

DIKEC Yusuf (TUR)

3

1

9

6

1

3

586

101.7

ZLATIC Andrija (SRB)

18

1

14

5

1

3

590

102.9

ISAKOV Vladimir (RUS)

4

3

11

7

 

3

588

101.8

BADARACCHI Mauro (ITA)

33

1

12

5

2

2

587

103.3

MIKEC Damir (SRB)

23

1

16

6

1

2

586

101.4

TAN Zongliang (CHN)

1

4

6

3

1

2

591

103.2

SHI Xinglong (CHN)

107

0

8

3

1

2

584

101.9

ZHANG Tian (CHN)

8

0

11

6

 

2

590

100.9

OMELCHUK Oleg (UKR)

11

1

13

6

 

2

588

102.4

YUNUSMETOV Rashid (KAZ)

20

1

16

6

 

2

586

104.8

PANG Wei (CHN)

10

1

8

3

 

2

589

102.2

DAUHAPOLAU Yury (BLR)

35

1

11

3

 

2

585

102.6

MAI Jiajie (CHN)

0

0

3

2

 

2

585

102.9

SZARENSKI Daryl (USA)

43

3

10

3

1

1

585

103.2

GRUNDER Lukas (SUI)

0

0

6

2

1

1

588

103.1

CHERVYAKOVSKIY Sergey (RUS)

24

0

8

6

 

1

587

99.4

KOULAKOV Denis (RUS)

19

0

8

5

 

1

585

101.8

BEAMAN Brian (USA)

41

1

14

5

 

1

586

102.3

COSTA Joao (POR)

21

3

11

3

 

1

587

101.3

DUMOULIN Franck (FRA)

31

5

12

3

 

1

590

102.8

SINGH Omkar (IND)

50

0

15

3

 

1

584

100.8

KUSHNIROV Denys (UKR)

6

0

4

2

 

1

585

103.0

GONTCHAROV Vladimir (RUS)

12

1

5

2

 

1

590

103.9

KELES Ismail (TUR)

7

0

5

1

 

1

582

102.3

KUDRIYA Serhiy (UKR)

107

2

9

1

 

1

583

101.0

 

Marco Dalla Dea

 

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