Jasna Sekaric likes to be the winner

Jasna Sekaric, 40, from Serbia and Montenegro, won the Gold medal at the ISSF World Cup in Resende today. She assured her leading position with the eighth final shot of 10.5. The three times Olympic Silver medal winner of 1992, 2000 and 2004 as well as Olympic Gold medal winner of Seoul 1988 looks back at a very successful shooting year 2005 and again is one of the top athletes in her sport. With a difference of 3.3 she left her followers behind and won the Gold medal in the 10m event. “The most important event this year are the World Championships in Zagreb. I hope to get first there as well and the World Cups now are just as a preparation for me. My last World Championship title goes back to 1994 and I would like to win another one”, described Sekaric as her plans for this year. Runner up during the final, Dina Aspandiyarova, formerly competing for Russia and now starting for Australia, missed her medal placing by a pitiful last shot of 6.5 causing her to fall back to place five. Rising in their ranks were first time World Cup participant Sun Rong Li, 23, from China and first time World Cup finalist Rai Sonia, 25, from India. The Quota place for Beijing 2008 went to China, since Sekaric had secured her ticket already at last years World Cup in Munich in the 25m Pistol event.