Suruchi Inder Singh won her fourth gold medal of the season in the ISSF World Cup, as she took her third-consecutive title in the women's 10m air pistol to remain undefeated in the event this season.
The Indian teenager won in back-to-back finals in Buenos Aires and Lima, and took gold in the mixed team 10m air pistol final in Peru too, after claiming bronze the previous week in Argentina in that event. Her win today made it a fifth World Cup medal in five events - meaning she holds the fantastic statistic of making the podium in every World Cup event she has taken part in.
Gold would also go to Tokyo 2020 champion, France's Jean Quiquampoix would win at the World Cup for the seventh time, and did so today in style.
Women's 10m air pistol final
For Suruchi Inder Singh, she was pushed hard by France's Camille Jedrzejewski, the Olympic silver medallist; and Yao Qianxun of China, who earlier today broke the Qualification Junior World Record with a score of 589. Singh started well and by the end of the first competition stage, only behind Turkey's Sevval Ilayda Tarhan, with Jedrzejewski and Yao following.
A strong opening to the elimination stage saw Singh move ahead, while Qian Wei of China and Haniyeh Rostamiyan of Iran finished in seventh and eighth. China's Jiang Ranxin would be next to depart in sixth, followed by Cheng Yen-Ching from Chinese Taipei. At the front, the battle was ongoing.
Tarhan's challenge looked to have ended as the momentum had just started. Following five scores between 10.4 and 10.6, the Turk scored 8.5 in her opening elimination series. Despite some solid shooting afterwards, she could not catch the top three. Yao would take a slender lead over the other two, but the next series saw Jedrzejewski go from a fairly-distant third to first, and Yao would drop into third. Another difficult series saw Yao lose contact with the French athlete and only just ahead of Singh.
In the crucial elimination for third, Yao would close the gap to Singh, but only to 0.2 points. Crucially for the Indian, she went from trailing Jedrzejewski by 1.5 to just 0.5 going into the final two shots. A tremendous score of 10.5 saw Singh overcome Jedrzejewski to edge ahead, with the pair finishing on 241.9 and 241.7.
The Indian teenager won in back-to-back finals in Buenos Aires and Lima, and took gold in the mixed team 10m air pistol final in Peru too, after claiming bronze the previous week in Argentina in that event. Her win today made it a fifth World Cup medal in five events - meaning she holds the fantastic statistic of making the podium in every World Cup event she has taken part in.
Gold would also go to Tokyo 2020 champion, France's Jean Quiquampoix would win at the World Cup for the seventh time, and did so today in style.
Women's 10m air pistol final
For Suruchi Inder Singh, she was pushed hard by France's Camille Jedrzejewski, the Olympic silver medallist; and Yao Qianxun of China, who earlier today broke the Qualification Junior World Record with a score of 589. Singh started well and by the end of the first competition stage, only behind Turkey's Sevval Ilayda Tarhan, with Jedrzejewski and Yao following.
A strong opening to the elimination stage saw Singh move ahead, while Qian Wei of China and Haniyeh Rostamiyan of Iran finished in seventh and eighth. China's Jiang Ranxin would be next to depart in sixth, followed by Cheng Yen-Ching from Chinese Taipei. At the front, the battle was ongoing.
Tarhan's challenge looked to have ended as the momentum had just started. Following five scores between 10.4 and 10.6, the Turk scored 8.5 in her opening elimination series. Despite some solid shooting afterwards, she could not catch the top three. Yao would take a slender lead over the other two, but the next series saw Jedrzejewski go from a fairly-distant third to first, and Yao would drop into third. Another difficult series saw Yao lose contact with the French athlete and only just ahead of Singh.
In the crucial elimination for third, Yao would close the gap to Singh, but only to 0.2 points. Crucially for the Indian, she went from trailing Jedrzejewski by 1.5 to just 0.5 going into the final two shots. A tremendous score of 10.5 saw Singh overcome Jedrzejewski to edge ahead, with the pair finishing on 241.9 and 241.7.
Jean Quiquampoix has seventh ISSF World Cup golds to his nameMen's 25m rapid-fire pistol final
Jean Quiquampoix is used to the feeling of winning - an Olympic gold and silver sit in his trophy cabinet and six World Cup gold medals. Although this was the seventh occasion the Frenchman has won on the circuit, the dominance will make this one special.
He trailed Florian Peter of Germany in the first round - tied with Peter's compatriot Emanuel Mueller and France's Clement Bessaguet - before pushing away with the two Germans. Peter and Quiquampoix would then move ahead and would remained locked together once the elimination stage started, two ahead of Mueller, three in front of Bessaguet and four in front of Su Lianbofan from China. Korean Hong Suk-jin finished sixth.
Quiquampoix had another perfect round to pull ahead of the next three, who were three behind, as Su finished fifth. Despite Peter cutting the gap to two after the next five shots, Quiquampoix was unfazed and in the last five shots, made it a gap of three - finishing on an impressive score of 35 out of 40 compared to Peter on 32. Mueller would take the bronze medal after beating Bessaguet in a shoot-off. For Mueller, it was his first World Cup medal.
Information and results from the ISSF World Cup in Munich can be found here.
Jean Quiquampoix is used to the feeling of winning - an Olympic gold and silver sit in his trophy cabinet and six World Cup gold medals. Although this was the seventh occasion the Frenchman has won on the circuit, the dominance will make this one special.
He trailed Florian Peter of Germany in the first round - tied with Peter's compatriot Emanuel Mueller and France's Clement Bessaguet - before pushing away with the two Germans. Peter and Quiquampoix would then move ahead and would remained locked together once the elimination stage started, two ahead of Mueller, three in front of Bessaguet and four in front of Su Lianbofan from China. Korean Hong Suk-jin finished sixth.
Quiquampoix had another perfect round to pull ahead of the next three, who were three behind, as Su finished fifth. Despite Peter cutting the gap to two after the next five shots, Quiquampoix was unfazed and in the last five shots, made it a gap of three - finishing on an impressive score of 35 out of 40 compared to Peter on 32. Mueller would take the bronze medal after beating Bessaguet in a shoot-off. For Mueller, it was his first World Cup medal.
Information and results from the ISSF World Cup in Munich can be found here.