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Published on 26 Oct 2009

50m Pistol Men – Jin won with 13 points of advantage

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Beijing Olympic Champion Jin Jong Oh, 30, from Korea, won the 50m Pistol Men event, beating his opponents by a huge advantage of 13 points. Portugal’s Costa finished in second, while Slovakia’s Kopp grabbed Bronze.

World’s best free pistol shooter Jin Jong Oh won the 2009 World Cup Final in Wuxi, securing Gold with a huge advantage of 13 points over his opponents, and confirming the title he had won at last year’s World Cup Final in Bangkok. The Olympic Champion of Beijing finished in the lead as he had started: qualified for the final with 11 points of head start, he managed and stretched his advantage on the followers, landing on the highest step of the podium with a total score of 671.8 points (575+96.8).

Jin seems to be unbeatable on the firing lines of the 50m Pistol Men events: starting from the 2008 Olympic Gold medal won in Beijing, and passing through his victories at the 2008 ISSF World Cup Final and at the 2009 ISSF World Cup Stage of Changwon, his leadership in the World Ranking has never been seriously contested.


The World Cup Final Silver medal went to the Portuguese shooter Joao Costa, who scored 658.5 points (564+94.5) to win his first World Cup Final medal. The 44-year old athlete, a three-time Olympian, had participated in the 2002, 2007 and 2008 editions, but he had never made it to the podium.


Bronze went to the Slovakian outsider Pavol Kopp, 30-year old, who closed the match in third place overtaking the Olympic Champion of Athens Mikhail Nestruev of Russia. Kopp climbed from the fourth place, ending up on the podium with a total score of 656.6 points (560+95.6), pushing Nestruev in a shoot-off for the fourth place.


Finishing with a total score of 653.6 points, Nestruev faced the home shooter Shi Xinglong in a shoot-off for the fourth place. The Russian Olympic Champion, winner of six World Cup Final medals, outdid his Chinese opponent Shi 10.2 to 9.0 points, leaving him in fifth.