Shooting ISSF World Championships 2018

[dcro 10,210]

Good on ISSF to be giving 4 quotas per event. Not too much to be sad about if finishing 4th.

[dcro 10,210]

Gold for Slovakia.

[hckošice 14,823]

Zuzana 2nd careers World title now we are also officially qualified for the mixed trap

[phelps 7,674]

Today's Results

 

 

Men's Individual Air Pistol

Gold: Jin Jong Ho

Silver: Artem Chernousov

Bronze: Lee Dae Myung

Olympic Quota: South Korea, Russia, South Korea & Ukraine

 

Women's Individual Trap

Gold: Zuzana Rehak Stefecekova

Silver: Wang Xiaojing

Bronze: Silvana Stanco

Olympic Quota: Slovakia, China, Italy & Australia

 

 

Men's Team Air Pistol

Gold: South Korea

Silver: India

Bronze: Russia

 

Women's Team Trap

Gold: Italy

Silver: Spain

Bronze: United States

 

 

Men's Team 50m 3-Position Rifle

Gold: Russia

Silver: China

Bronze: Belarus

 

 

Men's Junior Individual Trap

Gold: Nathan Steven Argiro

Silver: Logan Joseph Lucas

Bronze: Lorenzo Ferrari

 

Men's Junior Team Trap

Gold: Australia

Silver: India

Bronze: Italy

 

 

Men's Junior Individual Air Pistol

Gold: Chaudhary Saurabh

Silver: Lim Ho Jin

Bronze: Arjun Singh Cheema

 

Men's Junior Team Air Pistol

Gold: South Korea

Silver: India

Bronze: Russia

 

 

Men's Individual 50m Running Target Mixed Run

Gold: Emil Martinsson

Silver: Mikhail Azarenko

Bronze: Jesper Nyberg

 

Men's Team 50m Running Target Mixed Run

Gold: Sweden

Silver: Russia

Bronze: North Korea

 

 

Men's Junior Individual 50m Running Target Mixed Run

Gold: Danylo Danilenko

Silver: Kris Grossheim

Bronze: Andreas Bergstrom

 

 

Updated Medal Standings here:

https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/schedule.ashx?cshipid=1750

Edited February 24, 2019 by phelps

[phelps 7,674]

wow! what a pair of finals, today!!!

 

in the men's air pistol, I feel so sorry for Chernousov, who led throughout the entire competition and still had a 4-point margin before the last 4 shots...

but Jin's comeback was also something you don't see very often...

and the perfect ending was the final shoot-off, even if the momentum was so clearly addressed that it took most of the climax for the last shot away even before the shooters did take it...

p.s. no comment on the Italian disaster, which is becoming an annoying refrain to all the pistol & rifle shooting competitions...

 

in the women's Trap, we just had the chance to watch the best competion of the year, which did reach the climax with the really dramatic last shot of regulation, with Stefecekova and Wang fighting for the Gold medal...

first an unbelievable and unexpected miss by the Slovak, then the "no bird" on the following target (the last shot for Wang), which probably annoyed her enough to cause her mistake on the successive valid final target...

and therefore we went to the shoot-off also in this event, where the advantage of shooting first paid off in favor of Zuzana, who won her 2nd world title...

p.p.s. for Italy it was another disappointing day, but at least here we got the consolation prize of a Bronze Medal and of an Olympic spot (hoping that this time, after Rio's shameful behavior, our coaches won't deny Stanco the Olympic dream she deserves after earning her place in the Tokyo competiiton)...

[JoshMartini007 2,536]

At the half way point Asia and Europe are tied 15-15 in terms of athlete quotas. Oceania (Australia) has the other two.

[AlFHg 330]

According to current qualification status, apart from Japan as host and China and Russia winning mixing team quotas, there are South Korea  qualified in mixed team 10m pistol, and Australia  and Slovakia  in mixed trap

[AlFHg 330]

Does any of you know something about the competition format of the trap mixed event? Is it like an individual event or things are different?

[JoshMartini007 2,536]

5 minutes ago, AlFHg said:

Does any of you know something about the competition format of the trap mixed event? Is it like an individual event or things are different?

 

It's pretty similar, just with two people

 

From the media guide:

Each team in the Trap Mixed Team qualification round shoots 150 total targets: 75 targets per team member, divided in three rounds of 25 targets each. Athletes competing in the qualification phase are divided in squads composed of three teams each. They use all of the five layout stations, and they are allowed to fire two shots at each target. Two shooters compose each team: one male and one female. The score of the team is made by the sum of the two individual scores

 

Targets are thrown randomly: shooters don’t know the angle and the direction of the target. The rotation logic ensures that all teams will shoot the same targets sometimes during the round.

 

The elimination-style final consists of a maximum of 50 targets.

 

During the final round, teammates alternate in shooting series of five targets, in the order designated by their coach. Athletes shoot from and rotate on station number 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5, and they are allowed to fire one shot at each target. After five rounds have been completed — or when every team fired five times from each station — the lowest ranking team is eliminated in 6th position. At the end of each of the three following rounds, eliminations in 5th, 4th and 3rd place are determined. There, the two remaining teams have to fire two more complete rounds to decide the gold and silver medalist.

[hckošice 14,823]

54 minutes ago, AlFHg said:

According to current qualification status, apart from Japan as host and China and Russia winning mixing team quotas, there are South Korea  qualified in mixed team 10m pistol, and Australia  and Slovakia  in mixed trap

 

Mixed Trap should definitely be our biggest medal chance in Tokyo, I believe. If there anything else, this one should help our Olympic team to return back home with at least 1 medal