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Norway, the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China earns today’s Golds at the Junior World Cup

ISSF Junior World Cup Rifle / Pistol / Shotgun · Gabala, AZE

On the second-to-last day in Gabala the Russian Federation solidified his position atop the overall medal ranking thanks to Margarita Lomova’s Gold in the 25m Pistol Women Junior. Norway’s first individual Gold was signed by Benjamin Tingsrud Karlsen in the 50m Rifle 3 Positions Men Junior event, while Chinese athlete Wang Chunchun ruled the Trap Women Junior match.

Three Olympic and one non-Olympic Shooting events were scheduled today at the Gabala Shooting Club, where the ISSF Junior World Cup will close tomorrow.

 

25m Pistol Men Junior

The third and last non-Olympic event to take place at the in Gabala was the 25m Pistol Men event, where India secured a Gold-Silver combo thanks to Anhad Jawanda (17) and Gurmeet Gurmeet (20).

 

Jawanda, who placed 6th in yesterday’s 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men Junior event, concluded with 586 points, while Gurmeet scored 579.

 

The Bronze medal was awarded to Australia’s 18-year-old Sergei Evglevski, who concluded with 574 points. It’s the second Bronze medal for Evglevski at the Junior World Cup in Gabala, after the one he secured yesterday in the 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men Junior match.

 

On the team podium, India pocketed the brightest set of medals, followed by Australia in 2nd position and by Qatar who won placed 3rd.

 

For the 25m Pistol Men Junior complete results click here.

For the 25m Pistol Men Junior photo gallery click here.

 

50m Rifle 3 Positions Men Junior

The first Olympic Shooting event of the day saw Norway claim their first individual Gold medal of the competition, as 17-year-old Benjamin Tingsrud Karlsen prevailed in a tight final rush against Czech Republic’s Filip Nepejchal.

 

During the conclusive elimination phase of the match, in fact, Nepejchal fired all of his five shots out of the tenth ring, squandering the 2.0-points of gap he had on Karlsen after 42 shots.

 

Karlsen, who overtook Nepejchal with his second-to-last shot, a 10.4, earned the Junior Gold medal with 455.1 points, while Nepejchal, who also won a Junior Gold medal in yesterday’s 10m Air Rifle Men event, finished with 453.3 points.

 

Russian Federation’s Timur Akhmedzhanov (18) secured the Bronze medal with 440.3 points.

 

He was followed by two more Norwegian finalists, Henrik Larsen (19) and Vegard Nordhagen (17), who respectively placed 4th with 429.0 points and 5th with 414.1, and by Romania’s Dagomir Iordache (18), who placed 6th with 404.5 points.

 

The first athletes to be eliminated from the finals was 17-year-old Ofek Engel of Israel, who concluded in 7th position with 393.3 points. and India’s Subhankar Pramanick (18), Gold medallist three days earlier in the 50m Rifle Prone Men Junior event, who placed 8th with 392.9 points.

 

For the 50m Rifle 3 Positions Men Junior complete results click here.

For the 50m Rifle 3 Positions Men Junior photo gallery click here.

 

25m Pistol Women Junior

In the final event of the Rifle/Pistol schedule at the ISSF Junior World Cup in Gabala, the Russian Federation concluded with another Gold medal in the women’s 25m Pistol event, where Margarita Lomova earned the seventh individual title for her country.

 

After scoring a bad 0-points series midway through the semifinal, the 20-year-old managed to defend the 2nd place and qualified for the Gold medal match, where she met Bulgaria’s Miroslava Mincheva (17), 1st at the end of the semifinal with 14 points.

 

In the Gold medal match, after Lomova and Mincheva split the stakes in the first series, the Russian shooter ruled the following three, earning the points she needed to sign a 7-to-1 points victory and pocketing the Gold medal.

 

Lomova, currently ranked 46th in the world in this event, doubled the Junior Gold she claimed two days ago in the women’s 10m Air Pistol event. Mincheva, instead, won another Silver after the Junior one she nailed at the 2016 European Championship in Tallinn (EST).

 

In the Bronze medal match Anna Dedova (18) of the Czech Republic bested India’s 18-year-old Chinki Yadav, earning the first 6 points of the match and securing the 3rd step of the podium with the final score of 7 points to 3.

 

Four shooters left the match at the end of the semifinal: Princhuda Methaweewong (20) of Thailand finished in 5th position with 9 points, just 1 point behind Dedova, while Egypt’s Afaf Elhodhod (19) placed 6th with 9, losing three position after scoring 0 points in a disappointing last series.

 

Two Indian shooters concluded in the bottom two positions: Gauri Sheoran (19) finished 7th with 7 seven points, and Muskan Muskan (15) placed in 8th position with 6.

 

Despite missing the individual podium, India secured the team Gold medal, followed by two Thai teams in 2nd and in 3rd position.

 

For the 25m Pistol Women Junior complete results click here.

For the 25m Pistol Women Junior photo gallery click here.

 

Trap Women Junior

The penultimate Shotgun event of the ISSF Junior World Cup in Gabala crowned Chinese 17-year-old Wang Chunchun, who pocketed the Trap Women Junior Gold medal in his first international participation ever.

 

Wang faced and beat the more experienced Yulia Tugolukova (20) of the Russian Federation, Silver medallist at the 2015 World Championship in Lonato (ITA) and European Champion this year also in Lonato.

 

After they both crushed 11 out of 15 targets in the Gold medal match, Tugolukova missed her very first clay in the shoot-off, delivering the Gold medal to Wang and finishing in 2nd place.

 

In the earlier Bronze medal match, Italy’s 17-year-old Maria Lucia Palmitessa prevailed over Stephanie Pile (19) of Australia, who missed 2 of her first 3 targets and failed to catch up with her Italian rival. Palmitessa, who crushed all of her last 6 targets, sealed the Bronze medal with the final score of 13-to-11.

 

At the end of the semifinal round, all four finalists, Wang, Tugolukova, Palmitessa and Pile, finished with 12 hits, entering a four-way tie-breaker to enter the Gold or the Bronze medal match.

 

Eliminated at the end of the semifinal, two Russian shooter concluded at the bottom two positions: Anna Zhemkova (17) finished 5th with 10 points, while Iuliia Saveleva (18) concluded in 6th position with 9.

 

For the Trap Women Junior complete results click here.

For the Trap Women Junior photo gallery click here.

Medal standings after 32 out of 34 events

Rank Nation Individual Team Total
Gold Silver Bronze Gold Silver Bronze Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 RUS 7 6 3 5 3 1 12 9 4 25
2 IND 4 2 2 5 3 7 9 5 9 23
3 NOR 1 1 3 4 1 5
4 CHN 2 1 1 1 3 3 4 1 8
5 CZE 2 4 2 2 4 2 8
6 TUR 1 1 1 1 1 1 3
7 KAZ 1 1 1
8 AUS 1 3 2 3 3 6
9 SIN 1 2 2 1 3
10 THA 1 2 1 2 3
11 ITA 1 1 1 1 2
11 JPN 1 1 1 1 2
13 BUL 1 1 1
14 QAT 2 2 2
15 EGY 1 1 1
15 GEO 1 1 1
15 ROU 1 1 1
15 UZB 1 1 1
17 17 17 15 15 15 32 32 32 96

The ISSF Junior World Cup in Gabala will conclude tomorrow with the last event: the Trap Men Junior scheduled to take place at 3:00 PM (UTC+4). A 50m Mixed Junior Team event will also take place at 12:00 PM.

 

The Trap Men Junior semifinal and medal matches will be live streamed on the ISSF’s website and on the Federation’s Livestream channel.

 

News and updates about the ISSF Junior World Cup in Gabala will be available on the Federation’s website and on its social media profiles: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Weibo and Youku.

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