The 7th and the 8th Gold medal of the ISSF Running Target World Championship for the Ukraine came in the last event of the competition, as Darya Rozhniatovska topped all of her opponents in the 10m Running Target Mixed Women Junior event.
The 18-year-old, two-time Junior Silver medallist at the 2014 European Championship in Moscow (RUS), totalled 368 points, 6 more than Silver medallist Florence Louis of France, who came back from Wednesday’s unlucky semifinal and finally celebrated a place on the podium.
“I am very happy about this win, we had a very successful competition as a team and we are all proud of ourselves,” said Rozhniatovska right after the match. “I train almost every day, at least three hours per day, and I still feel like I can improve myself a lot.”
To deliver the Bronze medal Finland’s Elli Rasanen and Hungary’s Veronika Major had to go through a shoot-off, where the Finnish 18-year-old prevailed over Wednesday’s Gold medallist in the 10m Running Target Women Junior event.
The team podium saw the Ukraine pocket another Gold medal, the X of their competition, with Rozhniatovska, Yuliya Tymoshko and Viktoriia Stetsiura, who totalled 1072 points, followed by the Russian Federation team composed by Anna Kostina, Kseniia Anufrieva and Natalia Pochatkova who won the team Silver medal. In 3rd place, finally, the bronze medal went to Germany’s Eva Maria Oestreicher, Nicola Inge Mueller-Fassbender and Carolin Moesslang.
The Ukraine also ruled the final medal standings with their 8 Golds, 2 Silvers and 5 Bronzes, followed by the Russian Federation with 3 Golds, 10 Silvers and 2 Bronzes, and by the People’s Republic of China with 3 Golds, 1 Silver and 1 Bronze.