After finishing first and second in qualification, brothers Anton and Josip Glasnovic will meet in the final of the men's trap at the 2025 ISSF World Championship Shotgun at the Malakasa Shooting Range near Athens, Greece.
Anton, who took silver in his only world final back in 2013, scored a perfect 125 to pip his younger brother Josip to the number one bib. The Rio 2016 Olympic champion Josip will also compete in his second world final - his first in 20 years. Back then he took bronze in Lonato. The Croatians were one of the favourites for the team title and they duly delivered. The Glasnovic duo missed just once between them, while Giovanni Cernogoraz scored 119 to give them a total of 368. Another contender for the final, Cernogoraz struggled in the final round, finishing 18th.
Hoping to add to the American success is William Hinton, who finished third in qualification on 123. The United States have all four medals so far following on from their dominance in skeet competition. Three athletes would score 122, meaning a shoot-off to determine what bib they would hold in the final. Spanish youngster Andres Garcia will be looking to take back-to-back world titles after becoming the junior world champion last year in Lima.
France's Antonin Desert qualified in fifth for his second world final after finishing sixth in Lonato in 2019. He is yet to win an individual medal at a major event. India's Zoravar Singh Sandhu was the surprise qualifier, with the 48-year-old making the world final for the first time in his career. His sole international medal came at the 2007 ISSF World Cup leg where he won bronze. Notably, four of the finalists are over the age of 40. The age gap between Singh and Garcia is 27 years.
Hinton would held the US to team silver, backed up by Derrick Mein and Walton Eller on 361, finishing ahead of Czechia's Jiri Liptak, Jan Palacky and David Kostelecky on countback. It was a day of disappointment for the Czechs with Liptak and Palacky missing the final by one shot. Other notable names to miss out include Olympic bronze medallist Jean Pierre Brol of Guatemala in 23rd, Australian James Willett and Italian Giovanni Pellielo in 44th and 45th, and Olympic champion Nathan Hales from Great Britain, who finished 78th.
Anton, who took silver in his only world final back in 2013, scored a perfect 125 to pip his younger brother Josip to the number one bib. The Rio 2016 Olympic champion Josip will also compete in his second world final - his first in 20 years. Back then he took bronze in Lonato. The Croatians were one of the favourites for the team title and they duly delivered. The Glasnovic duo missed just once between them, while Giovanni Cernogoraz scored 119 to give them a total of 368. Another contender for the final, Cernogoraz struggled in the final round, finishing 18th.
Hoping to add to the American success is William Hinton, who finished third in qualification on 123. The United States have all four medals so far following on from their dominance in skeet competition. Three athletes would score 122, meaning a shoot-off to determine what bib they would hold in the final. Spanish youngster Andres Garcia will be looking to take back-to-back world titles after becoming the junior world champion last year in Lima.
France's Antonin Desert qualified in fifth for his second world final after finishing sixth in Lonato in 2019. He is yet to win an individual medal at a major event. India's Zoravar Singh Sandhu was the surprise qualifier, with the 48-year-old making the world final for the first time in his career. His sole international medal came at the 2007 ISSF World Cup leg where he won bronze. Notably, four of the finalists are over the age of 40. The age gap between Singh and Garcia is 27 years.
Hinton would held the US to team silver, backed up by Derrick Mein and Walton Eller on 361, finishing ahead of Czechia's Jiri Liptak, Jan Palacky and David Kostelecky on countback. It was a day of disappointment for the Czechs with Liptak and Palacky missing the final by one shot. Other notable names to miss out include Olympic bronze medallist Jean Pierre Brol of Guatemala in 23rd, Australian James Willett and Italian Giovanni Pellielo in 44th and 45th, and Olympic champion Nathan Hales from Great Britain, who finished 78th.
Laetisha Scanlan is one of the athletes into the women's trap finalSpain's Mar Molne will be looking to make up for the heartache at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games after topping women's trap qualification for her first world final.
The 24-year-old had her breakthrough performance in Chateauroux, but ultimately just missed the medals that day, finishing fourth. Scoring 121 today, she tied with Italian Silvana Stanco, who took the silver medal that day. Stanco has been one of the more consistent performers in women's trap. Three years earlier, she placed fifth in the final at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and took bronze in the 2018 world final. She has on three other occasions finished in the top 10 at the World Championship, but this will be only her second final. The pair were separated in a shoot-off immediately as Molne cleared her first target and Stanco missed hers.
Similarly, Sandra Bernal of Poland and Ines de Barros from Portugal were separated on the first target of the shoot-off after both scoring 120. The pair are the darkest horses in the final. Bernal's crowning moment saw her win her sole ISSF World Cup in 2020 in Nicosia. She also narrowly missed the Olympic final in Tokyo. She improves her best world qualification result by 40 places too. De Barros also has one World Cup gold to her name as well as the 2023 European title and two top 10 World Championship finishes. She was also eighth at Paris 2024.
Molne is reunited with her experienced compatriot Fatima Galvez, the 2015 world champion. Galvez has made three solo Olympic finals, but never took a medal. In Chateauroux, she was one place behind Molne in fifth. She has enjoyed more success at the World Championships. She won silver in 2014 and 2022 as well as bronze in 2019. This will be her sixth senior world final.
Laetisha Scanlan from Australia scored 118, but only took the final spot after a three-way shoot-off with Slovakia's Tokyo 2020 champion and two-time world champion Zuzana Rehak Stefecekova and Egypt's Maggy Ashmawy, who posted one of her best results to date in eighth.
Scanlan, who missed out on selection for Paris 2024 after two top five finishes at the previous two Olympics, has had a few near-misses at the World Championships. She has progressed from qualification on four occasions without a medal. She bounced back this year with a win in Lonato and looks impressive coming into the final.
Molne and Galvez supported Spain to the team title. Backed by Beatriz Martinez, they eased to a total of 355. Stanco's high score helped the Italian team - also featuring Alessia Iezzi and Valentina Panza, take silver with 346. Scanlan, Penny Smith and Kiara Sioux-Lin Dean combined for 343 for the bronze.
Smith, the Paris 2024 bronze medallist, is yet to make her first world final, having finished 17th, one spot behind fellow Olympic bronze medallist, Alessandra Perilli from San Marino. Defending world bronze medallist Kathrin Murche of Germany placed 19th, whilst defending champion Lin Yi-Chun from Chinese Taipei was 21st. The in-form athletes Lada Denisova and American Carey Garrison were 22nd and 45th respectively, while Olympic champion Adriana Ruano of Guatemala was down in 48th.
The 24-year-old had her breakthrough performance in Chateauroux, but ultimately just missed the medals that day, finishing fourth. Scoring 121 today, she tied with Italian Silvana Stanco, who took the silver medal that day. Stanco has been one of the more consistent performers in women's trap. Three years earlier, she placed fifth in the final at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and took bronze in the 2018 world final. She has on three other occasions finished in the top 10 at the World Championship, but this will be only her second final. The pair were separated in a shoot-off immediately as Molne cleared her first target and Stanco missed hers.
Similarly, Sandra Bernal of Poland and Ines de Barros from Portugal were separated on the first target of the shoot-off after both scoring 120. The pair are the darkest horses in the final. Bernal's crowning moment saw her win her sole ISSF World Cup in 2020 in Nicosia. She also narrowly missed the Olympic final in Tokyo. She improves her best world qualification result by 40 places too. De Barros also has one World Cup gold to her name as well as the 2023 European title and two top 10 World Championship finishes. She was also eighth at Paris 2024.
Molne is reunited with her experienced compatriot Fatima Galvez, the 2015 world champion. Galvez has made three solo Olympic finals, but never took a medal. In Chateauroux, she was one place behind Molne in fifth. She has enjoyed more success at the World Championships. She won silver in 2014 and 2022 as well as bronze in 2019. This will be her sixth senior world final.
Laetisha Scanlan from Australia scored 118, but only took the final spot after a three-way shoot-off with Slovakia's Tokyo 2020 champion and two-time world champion Zuzana Rehak Stefecekova and Egypt's Maggy Ashmawy, who posted one of her best results to date in eighth.
Scanlan, who missed out on selection for Paris 2024 after two top five finishes at the previous two Olympics, has had a few near-misses at the World Championships. She has progressed from qualification on four occasions without a medal. She bounced back this year with a win in Lonato and looks impressive coming into the final.
Molne and Galvez supported Spain to the team title. Backed by Beatriz Martinez, they eased to a total of 355. Stanco's high score helped the Italian team - also featuring Alessia Iezzi and Valentina Panza, take silver with 346. Scanlan, Penny Smith and Kiara Sioux-Lin Dean combined for 343 for the bronze.
Smith, the Paris 2024 bronze medallist, is yet to make her first world final, having finished 17th, one spot behind fellow Olympic bronze medallist, Alessandra Perilli from San Marino. Defending world bronze medallist Kathrin Murche of Germany placed 19th, whilst defending champion Lin Yi-Chun from Chinese Taipei was 21st. The in-form athletes Lada Denisova and American Carey Garrison were 22nd and 45th respectively, while Olympic champion Adriana Ruano of Guatemala was down in 48th.