ISSF

Published on 11 Apr 2009

50m Pistol Men – Olympic Champion JIN led the match

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Marco Dalla Dea

Beijing’s Champion JIN Jong Oh ruled the 50m Pistol men event at the ISSF World Cup in Changwon, winning a great match in front of his home spectators. The Korean shooter never stopped after the Games, and keeps on winning important international matches with ease.

Korea’s national hero JIN Jong Oh, Beijing’s Olympic champion, won the ISSF World Cup’s 50m pistol men final in front of his supporters, in a crowded final hall at the shooting range of Changwon. Qualified in first place with 575 points and with a safe advantage on his followers, the 29-year old Korean athlete shot with ease his way to the highest step of the podium, closing the match in first with a total score of 674.6 points (575+99.6).

JIN has never stopped after the Games, he keeps on winning and this seems to be his golden period. After shooting gold and silver at the Games of Beijing in the 50 and 10 meters pistol events, he has leaded the 2008 ISSF World Final of Bangkok which closed the past sport season, and shared with Czech’s Katerina Emmons the title of “2008 shooter of the year” assigned by the sport journalists.

Leonid EKIMOV, the young and talented Russian pistol shooter who has leaded three European Championship as junior shooter between 2004 and 2007, placed in second today, winning Silver with a total of 665 points (573+92).

The 21-year EKIMOV proved to be a growing pistol start, and secured his spot on the podium after battling against two titled teammate, the 2004 and the 1996 Olympic Champions NESTRUEV and KOKOREV.

Mikhail NESTRUEV, 40-years old, and Boris KOKOREV, 49-year old, shot neck and neck for Bronze right to the last shots, in a breathtaking duel for the podium. NESTRUEV, a 2004 Olympic Champion who has struggled at the last Beijing’s Game, won the contest and placed in third winning Bronze with 662.2 points (567+95.2). His teammate KOKOREV followed him in fourth place with 660.6 points (567+93.6).

The 20-year old shooter LEE Daemyung, the second Korean finalist, closed the match in fifth, preceding China’s SHI Xinglong, today’s sixth.

Rashid YUNUSMETOV of Kazakhstan finished the round in seventh, while the German shooter Hans Joerg MEYER closed in eighth place. He had entered the final round by outdoing his teammate Florian SCHMIDT in a shoot-off.