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Men's Lead, climbers qualified to the Semifinals Georg Parma Fedir Samoilov Meichi Narasaki Thomas Joannes Hannes Puman Shuta Tanaka Aleksei Rubtsov Kai Harada William Bosi Jakob Schubert Tomoaki Takata Jorg Verhoeven Jakub Konecny Loïc Timmermans Marcello Bombardi Sascha Lehmann Tomoa Narasaki Luka Potocar Max Rudigier Alexander Megos Rudolph Ruana Francesco Vettorata Sean Bailey Stefano Ghisolfi Adam Ondra Domen Skofic

2018 Open Water Junior World Championships (Eilat, ISR) Day 2 Results Women's 10km (18-19 years old Girls) Gold: Paula Ruiz Bravo Silver: Maria A. Bramont-Arias Bronze: Reka Rohacs Men's 10km (18-19 years old Boys) Gold: Micheal Brinegar Silver: Enzo Roldan Munoz Bronze: Kirill Dolgov

1st race without a winner coming from the Alps... Men's Sub-23 Cross-Country Gold: Alan Hatherly Silver: Christopher Blevins Bronze: David Nordemann

to me, this whole qualification procedure is unfair (and a mess)... they should just have X individual events awarding x*2 quota pro-Nation...and the mixed team events -if they just can't get rid of them- should be open to 1 team from all those Countries having at least 1 male and 1 female individually qualified (no way they should have 2 pairs per Nation in those mixed competitions...if a Country then has 2 athletes in the corrspective individual event, the only privilege should be the chance to choose whoever they want between them for the team event)... as simple as it looks...no switches, no swaps, no multiple pathways and so on... p.s. and I also think that they should award a lot more quota at the world champs...at such kind of event, at least all the 8 (or 6, depending on the rules of each competition) finalists should get an Olympic berth, imho (with spots reallocated to the following qualification events in case someone makes the final twice...or more than twice...not going deeper into the rankings among those who missed the final)... I'm for simplifying things, not for complications...but this is just my opinion...

1st medal for Italy! in a race dominated beyond expectations (or not? ) by the Swiss girls, Marika Tovo just won the Bronze medal in the women's U-23 Cross-Country, confirming herself as one of the best riders in this class after the good world cup races and the amazing leg she did in the Team Relay 2 days ago... Women's Sub-23 Cross-Country Gold: Alessandra Keller Silver: Sina Frei Bronze: Marika Tovo

surely there will be a lot of those games...especially in the group stage, blowouts will be the normal rule...close games the exception...

it's perfectly normal for ISSF, since the athletes qualified for the individual events can still qualify the mixed team (and that's what SVK did with Varga & Stefecekova)... basically, with 2 guys they have filled all of their Trap quota... it's unfair, but those are the rules (or, at least, the interpretation given by almost every people so far)...

I think those reserve shooters are only a problem for the team...to me, full quota = the 8 real Olympic competitiors... especially for Italy, having more shooters would mean using all of them, thus having someone who didn't compete individually (= frustrated and maybe even out of shape) in the mixed event...no, thanks...

I agree, but just in case...women's 50km walk is definitely better than the farce named "mixed relay"...

frankly, there's nothing certain...there are still so many events where to earn quota places from (world cups, world champs -in shotgun there are worlds every year- and the last europeans before the Olympics)... OK, we had an awful world champs campaign here, but those are only the first spots awarded...there's still so much time (and chances) that I'm not worried about getting the full sqaud in Tokyo...but I'm a lot more worried about the chances of winning Gold medals in 2 years time (because I always expect nothing less than a full sweep at the Games)...

Today's Results Men's Individual 50m 3-Position Rifle Gold: Tomasz Bartnik Silver: Petar Gorsa Bronze: Michael McPhail Olympic Quota: Poland, United States, Norway & China Mixed Team Trap Gold: Slovakia 1 (Zuzana Rehak Stefecekova & Erik Varga) Silver: Russia 1 (Ekaterina Rabaya & Alexey Alipov) Bronze: Great Britain 1 (Kirsty Barr & Aaron Heading) Olympic Quota: Slovakia & Russia Men's Junior Individual Air Rifle Gold: Hriday Hazarika Silver: Amir Mohammad Nekounam Bronze: Grigorii Shamakov Men's Junior Team Air Rifle Gold: China Silver: Iran Bronze: Russia Women's Junior Individual Air Rifle Gold: Shi Mengyao Silver: Elavenil Valarivan Bronze: Shreya Agrawal Women's Junior Team Air Rifle Gold: India Silver: China Bronze: South Korea Women's Team 50m 3-Position Rifle Gold: Germany Silver: Denmark Bronze: Russia Updated Medal Standings here: https://www.issf-sports.org/competitions/venue/schedule.ashx?cshipid=1750

and it's Gold for SVK once again!

what an idiot...

drama, big drama for GBR... they had a chance to earn an Olympic spot, but they missed the decisive shot... therefore, it's RUS and SVK with quota places from today's event (with SVK almost sure of getting gold, too)...

good question... since it's possible for an athlete to earn a mixed team quota place and then also an individual one, I interpretate this as a big "yes"...SVK should have 2 men and 2 women qualified after today's event... but I'd wait for confirmation, since this qualification procedure looks like a mess (just as usual)... by the way, Italy have 2 teams in the final and don't get even a medal (not talking of quota places, which were out of any chance already after a few targets)... these championships are a real disaster for us...

if they make the women's 50km walk an Olympic event, I expect the number of competitive girls rapidly increasing...and by much... for sure Italy would quickly find 3 girls way better than that standard time, if only it would make sense to our NOC (our federation is led by people who don't care about anything but their "armchair"...so, I don't count on them for anything)...

naaa, we still have a lot of young talents (and a very wide field of shooters where to choose from) also in Trap... and I'm pretty sure we're gonna get the full set of Olympic spots even if we miss out here in Changwon... Shotgun Shooting is "our" sport (like Fencing)...we can have a bad day, a bad year...even a bad decade...but we always gonna be the team to beat in all of our opponents' mind...

no surprises in the first event of the championships...all the expected protagonists have gone through to the semifinal round and the main favourites already dominated the field in today's exercise... and I'm particularly happy for our young big (very big) hope Laura Rogora (class of 2001), who won the Boulder Youth World Title just a couple of weeks ago and today she's been able to qualify for the semis in the Lead event (which is not supposed to be her forte)... tomorrow, the men's Lead quaifications will be on stage...

Day 1 was dedicated to the Women's Lead Qualification... and those are the 26 women qualified for the Semifinals (listed in reverse order of the qualification result): Margo Hayes Anna Zaikina Ievgeniia Kazbekova Petra Klingler Ekaterina Kipriianova Manon Hily Hélène Janicot Anne-Sophie Koller Mia Krampl Sandra Lettner Heloïse Doumont Sol Sa Katherine Choong Laura Rogora Miho Nonaka Mei Kotake Lucka Rakovec Molly Thompson-Smith Christine Schranz Hannah Schubert Akiyo Noguchi Ashima Shiraishi Anak Verhoeven Ja In Kim Jessica Pilz Janja Garnbret p.s. 5 of those girls were born in the year 2000 (1) or 2001 (4)...

2018 Open Water Junior World Championships (Eilat, ISR) Day 1 Results Women's 5km (14-15 years old Girls) Gold: Iris Menchini Silver: Mira Szimcsak Bronze: Mariah Denigan Men's 5km (14-15 years old Boys) Gold: Aleksandr Stepanov Silver: Ivan Morgun Bronze: David Betlehem Women's 7.5km (16-17 years old Girls) Gold: Chase Travis Silver: Giulia Berton Bronze: Giulia Salin Men's 7.5km (16-17 years old Boys) Gold: Jean-Baptiste Clusman Silver: Danil Nemolochnov Bronze: Zoltan Tabi

Alpine domination in the junior cross-country races... Women's Junior Cross-Country Gold: Laura Stigger Silver: Tereza Saskova Bronze: Harriet Harnden Men's Junior Cross-Country Gold: Alexandre Balmer Silver: Leon Reinhard Kaiser Bronze: Mathis Azzaro

naaa...this time Slovan was very unlucky...they lost just at the last second of OT (after tying the game with less than a minute to go)... but at least they got their 1st point in the standings...better than nothing...

tbh, I liked a lot more last year's... p.s. not a good start of the season for Slovan in the KHL, too... for Slovak hockey, it's definitely not the best moment in its history...

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)...

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