The limits of the Double Trap events were raised today, as the Chinese shooter HU Binyuan set a new Final World Record of 196 hits, two targets more the previous 194 -target record which had been set by Italy’s DI SPIGNO ten years ago, at the 1999 Wolrd Championship.
The Olympic Bronze medallist HU, who had won a Silver medal here in Minsk at last year’s ISSF World Cup Final, walked into today’s final round with an equalled World Record of 147 hits after the morning’s qualification rounds.
After shooting 49 targets in all of the three qualification rounds, the Chinese shooter score 49 targets also in the final match, setting a new, outstanding Final World Record of 196 hits. Unreachable, the Chinese shooter left behind him India’s Ronjan SODHI, second with 194 hits, and Russia’s Vitaly FOKEEV, Bronze medallist with 190 hits.
Ronjan SODHI, who had equalled the previous 194-target record last year, finished in second place claiming Silver with a total score of 194 hits “I equalled the old 194-target record once again, today. Actually, I equalled the old record for about ten seconds, then HU shot his last pair, hit both the targets, and set a new one!” Said the Indian shooter after the match.
“196 hits! This is an outstanding record, it came out of a combination of perfect weather and of a perfect range, and of a great performance of Hu.” Said SOSHI. The Indian athlete had been the only shooter able to equal the previous 194-record, in the last ten years “But we have a new record now, and records are made to be equalled and broken. Double Trap results are moving up, the level is higher and higher…”
Italy’s Daniele DI SPIGNO, who had set the 194-record at the 1999 World Championships of Tampere, Finland, placed today in tenth place, and commented: “This is an outstanding record, especially if you consider that the previous one lasted 10 years. Now we all have a new frontier ahead of us.”
Russia’s Vitaly FOKEEV placed in third today, winning Bronze with 190 (142+48) hits, coming back on an ISSF podium two years after his last medal, won at the 2007 ISSF World Cup of Lonato.
Following FOKEEV, Hakan DAHLBY of Sweden, USA’s Joshua RICHMOND (winner of the last world cup stage in Munich) and Saif ALSHAMSY of the UAE, tied with a total score of 188 hits. In the following shoot-off, ALSHAMSY was the first to miss, placing in sixth place with 188+3 targets. 21-year old Joshua RICHMOND kept on shooting right to his fourth pair, when he dropped a target placing himself in fifth with 188+7 targets, while the expert Swedish champion DAHLBY placed in fourth with 188+8 targets.
The Olympic Bronze medallist HU, who had won a Silver medal here in Minsk at last year’s ISSF World Cup Final, walked into today’s final round with an equalled World Record of 147 hits after the morning’s qualification rounds.
After shooting 49 targets in all of the three qualification rounds, the Chinese shooter score 49 targets also in the final match, setting a new, outstanding Final World Record of 196 hits. Unreachable, the Chinese shooter left behind him India’s Ronjan SODHI, second with 194 hits, and Russia’s Vitaly FOKEEV, Bronze medallist with 190 hits.
Ronjan SODHI, who had equalled the previous 194-target record last year, finished in second place claiming Silver with a total score of 194 hits “I equalled the old 194-target record once again, today. Actually, I equalled the old record for about ten seconds, then HU shot his last pair, hit both the targets, and set a new one!” Said the Indian shooter after the match.
“196 hits! This is an outstanding record, it came out of a combination of perfect weather and of a perfect range, and of a great performance of Hu.” Said SOSHI. The Indian athlete had been the only shooter able to equal the previous 194-record, in the last ten years “But we have a new record now, and records are made to be equalled and broken. Double Trap results are moving up, the level is higher and higher…”
Italy’s Daniele DI SPIGNO, who had set the 194-record at the 1999 World Championships of Tampere, Finland, placed today in tenth place, and commented: “This is an outstanding record, especially if you consider that the previous one lasted 10 years. Now we all have a new frontier ahead of us.”
Russia’s Vitaly FOKEEV placed in third today, winning Bronze with 190 (142+48) hits, coming back on an ISSF podium two years after his last medal, won at the 2007 ISSF World Cup of Lonato.
Following FOKEEV, Hakan DAHLBY of Sweden, USA’s Joshua RICHMOND (winner of the last world cup stage in Munich) and Saif ALSHAMSY of the UAE, tied with a total score of 188 hits. In the following shoot-off, ALSHAMSY was the first to miss, placing in sixth place with 188+3 targets. 21-year old Joshua RICHMOND kept on shooting right to his fourth pair, when he dropped a target placing himself in fifth with 188+7 targets, while the expert Swedish champion DAHLBY placed in fourth with 188+8 targets.