Czechia's Petr Nymbursky won gold in the men's 300m rifle prone after a five-way tie at the top in the event at the 2025 ISSF World Championship Rifle/Pistol in Cairo, Egypt.
Nymbursky took the top spot after 40 shots inside the X-ring, and was joined on the podium by Germany's Max Ohlenburger and Jon Thor Sigurdsson of Iceland.
Pavlo Korostylov of Ukraine won the men's 25m centre fire pistol event, with Gurpreet Singh of India and Yann Pierre Louis Fridrici of France winning silver and bronze.
Katrine Lund would also win the open 300m standard rifle event in impressive fashion.
Nymbursky took the top spot after 40 shots inside the X-ring, and was joined on the podium by Germany's Max Ohlenburger and Jon Thor Sigurdsson of Iceland.
Pavlo Korostylov of Ukraine won the men's 25m centre fire pistol event, with Gurpreet Singh of India and Yann Pierre Louis Fridrici of France winning silver and bronze.
Katrine Lund would also win the open 300m standard rifle event in impressive fashion.
Men's 300m Rifle Prone
With the 2023 winner requiring a perfect 600 to win the title, it would be the fine margins that would be the difference.
Perfect scores at the halfway stage put four athletes in contention. These were Petr Nymbursky and his compatriot Jiri Privratsky, as well as the Swiss pair Gilles Vincent Dufaux and Sandro Greuter. An array followed on 299 - Max Ohlenburger, Jon Thor Sigurdsson, Switzerland's Pascal Bachmann, Austria's Alexander Schmirl and Romania's Peter Sidi.
Only one of the top four moved onto 400 - Dufaux, as Nymbursky moved onto 399 and Privratsky and Greuter onto 398. Sigurdsson, Bachmann and Schmirl all scored 100 to move onto 399 too.
Dufaux had his score below 100 in the fifth and penultimate series, scoring 98. Suddenly, he had lost the lead. Nymbursky's 100 moved him to the top with Sigurdsson and Bachmann on 499. Dufaux now trailed by one, tied with Schmirl and Greuter. Ohlenburger sat on 497, as did Privratsky, Sidi and Finland's Aleksi Leppa.
Nymbursky finished with a 98 and so did Sigurdsson and Bachmann, finishing on 597. Fortunately for them, no one who was one short, scored perfect. Dufaux scored 97, finishing 10th and Greuter scored 96 to place 14th. Schmirl scored 98, unable to go level. He placed seventh on 596.
For Leppa, he would score 100 and equal the 597 of the leaders. He was the only athlete to score 300 from his second half. Privratsky would come up just short with a 99, ending in sixth place. With five athletes tied on 597, Nymbursky took the gold thanks to 40 shots inside the inner ring. Ohlenburger took silver with 38 perfect shots and Sigurdsson with 36. Coming up short were Bachmann and Leppa who scored 33 and 29 respectively.
Czechia's Privratsky, Nymbursky and Ales Entrichel took the team gold with a total of 1787, followed by the Swiss trio of Dufaux, Greuter and Bachmann on 1784 and Poland's Andrzej Burda, Tomasz Bartnik and Maciej Kowalewicz on 1780.
With the 2023 winner requiring a perfect 600 to win the title, it would be the fine margins that would be the difference.
Perfect scores at the halfway stage put four athletes in contention. These were Petr Nymbursky and his compatriot Jiri Privratsky, as well as the Swiss pair Gilles Vincent Dufaux and Sandro Greuter. An array followed on 299 - Max Ohlenburger, Jon Thor Sigurdsson, Switzerland's Pascal Bachmann, Austria's Alexander Schmirl and Romania's Peter Sidi.
Only one of the top four moved onto 400 - Dufaux, as Nymbursky moved onto 399 and Privratsky and Greuter onto 398. Sigurdsson, Bachmann and Schmirl all scored 100 to move onto 399 too.
Dufaux had his score below 100 in the fifth and penultimate series, scoring 98. Suddenly, he had lost the lead. Nymbursky's 100 moved him to the top with Sigurdsson and Bachmann on 499. Dufaux now trailed by one, tied with Schmirl and Greuter. Ohlenburger sat on 497, as did Privratsky, Sidi and Finland's Aleksi Leppa.
Nymbursky finished with a 98 and so did Sigurdsson and Bachmann, finishing on 597. Fortunately for them, no one who was one short, scored perfect. Dufaux scored 97, finishing 10th and Greuter scored 96 to place 14th. Schmirl scored 98, unable to go level. He placed seventh on 596.
For Leppa, he would score 100 and equal the 597 of the leaders. He was the only athlete to score 300 from his second half. Privratsky would come up just short with a 99, ending in sixth place. With five athletes tied on 597, Nymbursky took the gold thanks to 40 shots inside the inner ring. Ohlenburger took silver with 38 perfect shots and Sigurdsson with 36. Coming up short were Bachmann and Leppa who scored 33 and 29 respectively.
Czechia's Privratsky, Nymbursky and Ales Entrichel took the team gold with a total of 1787, followed by the Swiss trio of Dufaux, Greuter and Bachmann on 1784 and Poland's Andrzej Burda, Tomasz Bartnik and Maciej Kowalewicz on 1780.
Men's 25m Centre Fire Pistol
Pavlo Korostylov's precision was key on his way to the gold medal in the men's 25m centre fire pistol, tying with India's Harpreet Singh for the best score from that stage, with a total of 291.
Unlike Singh, the Ukrainian, was able to deliver a rapid fire total of 293, which kept him in contention for the medals with a score of 584 overall. Gurpreet Singh of India had a three-point deficit to the leader after the precision stage and a total of 296 in the rapid fire stage would take him level with Korostylov.
His rapid fire score was the joint-highest in the field and the other two would end up in third and fourth place. These were Yann Pierre Louis Fridrici on 583 and Cho Yeong-jae of the Republic of Korea on 581. France's Kevin Chapon completed the top five.
With Korostylov and Gurpreet Singh both on 584, they would be separated by shots inside the middle ring. The Ukrainian would win the gold with 29 perfect shots to the Indian's 18.
France's Fridrici, Chapon and Theo Moczko claimed the gold medal with a total of 1737. Ukraine, thanks to the work of Korostylov, Volodymyr Pasternak and Maksym Horodynets, took the silver on 1734, beating the Republic of Korea's Cho, So Seung-seob and Lee Gun-hyeok to the bronze, by virtue of perfect shots.
Pavlo Korostylov's precision was key on his way to the gold medal in the men's 25m centre fire pistol, tying with India's Harpreet Singh for the best score from that stage, with a total of 291.
Unlike Singh, the Ukrainian, was able to deliver a rapid fire total of 293, which kept him in contention for the medals with a score of 584 overall. Gurpreet Singh of India had a three-point deficit to the leader after the precision stage and a total of 296 in the rapid fire stage would take him level with Korostylov.
His rapid fire score was the joint-highest in the field and the other two would end up in third and fourth place. These were Yann Pierre Louis Fridrici on 583 and Cho Yeong-jae of the Republic of Korea on 581. France's Kevin Chapon completed the top five.
With Korostylov and Gurpreet Singh both on 584, they would be separated by shots inside the middle ring. The Ukrainian would win the gold with 29 perfect shots to the Indian's 18.
France's Fridrici, Chapon and Theo Moczko claimed the gold medal with a total of 1737. Ukraine, thanks to the work of Korostylov, Volodymyr Pasternak and Maksym Horodynets, took the silver on 1734, beating the Republic of Korea's Cho, So Seung-seob and Lee Gun-hyeok to the bronze, by virtue of perfect shots.
Open 300m Standard Rifle
The only mixed individual event taking place in Cairo, it was an opportunity to see who would prevail on the final day of competition, for the final gold medal.
In the first of three stages - made up of two series each - Norway's Katrine Lund was joint-top of the table with a score of 198 in the kneeling section - scoring 100 in the second of these series. Her 198 total was only matched by Czechia's Jiri Privratsky. The chasing pack, on 197, consisted of Austria's Patrick Diem and Sandro Greuter of Switzerland; and Sweden's Karl Olsson, Slovenian Robert Markoja, Finland's Aleksi Leppa and Maciej Kowalewicz of Poland were together on 196.
Lund would take the outright lead after the prone section, with 199 out of 200, moving onto 397. Privratsky's 198 took him to 396, while Diem and Greuter could not draw level - scoring 195. Of the four chasers, only Olsson and Markoja realistically stayed in contention, with totals of 198 and 197 to remain either side of the top five. Kowalewicz would score 197, but quickly lost points in the standing section.
Tomasz Bartnik, the winner of the 300m rifle 3 positions event in Cairo, scored a perfect 200 in the prone to move two short of the Norwegian on 394. Olsson was tied with him, with Markoja and a second Norwegian woman, Jenny Vatne, now on 393.
With that one-point advantage, Lund just had to hold her nerve for her second individual title at this year's World Championship. Her first standing series gave her a total of 98, as she watched those around her struggle. Privratsky would lose base further with a first series of 96 - the same score as Bartnik. Olsson's 95 would move him away from contention too.
A second 98 from Lund had her too far ahead to be caught - making her the world champion with a score of 593. A second series score of 97 kept Privratsky in second with 589. Romania's Peter Sidi excelled in the standing section, with a mark of 197 to move onto 586. Vatne, who was also vying for the bronze, struggled in her first series but recovered well in the second for a total of 193 to go level with him and Bartnik. With the most accurate centre scoring Sidi had overhauled the pair to take bronze ahead of Vatne and then Bartnik in fifth.
The only mixed individual event taking place in Cairo, it was an opportunity to see who would prevail on the final day of competition, for the final gold medal.
In the first of three stages - made up of two series each - Norway's Katrine Lund was joint-top of the table with a score of 198 in the kneeling section - scoring 100 in the second of these series. Her 198 total was only matched by Czechia's Jiri Privratsky. The chasing pack, on 197, consisted of Austria's Patrick Diem and Sandro Greuter of Switzerland; and Sweden's Karl Olsson, Slovenian Robert Markoja, Finland's Aleksi Leppa and Maciej Kowalewicz of Poland were together on 196.
Lund would take the outright lead after the prone section, with 199 out of 200, moving onto 397. Privratsky's 198 took him to 396, while Diem and Greuter could not draw level - scoring 195. Of the four chasers, only Olsson and Markoja realistically stayed in contention, with totals of 198 and 197 to remain either side of the top five. Kowalewicz would score 197, but quickly lost points in the standing section.
Tomasz Bartnik, the winner of the 300m rifle 3 positions event in Cairo, scored a perfect 200 in the prone to move two short of the Norwegian on 394. Olsson was tied with him, with Markoja and a second Norwegian woman, Jenny Vatne, now on 393.
With that one-point advantage, Lund just had to hold her nerve for her second individual title at this year's World Championship. Her first standing series gave her a total of 98, as she watched those around her struggle. Privratsky would lose base further with a first series of 96 - the same score as Bartnik. Olsson's 95 would move him away from contention too.
A second 98 from Lund had her too far ahead to be caught - making her the world champion with a score of 593. A second series score of 97 kept Privratsky in second with 589. Romania's Peter Sidi excelled in the standing section, with a mark of 197 to move onto 586. Vatne, who was also vying for the bronze, struggled in her first series but recovered well in the second for a total of 193 to go level with him and Bartnik. With the most accurate centre scoring Sidi had overhauled the pair to take bronze ahead of Vatne and then Bartnik in fifth.
Medal standings
| Rank | Nation | Individual | Team | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | Silver | Bronze | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | ||
| 1 | CHN |
4 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 4 | 12 | 7 | 2 | 21 | |
| 2 | KOR |
3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 14 | |
| 3 | IND |
2 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 13 |
| 4 | SUI |
2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 12 |
| 5 | FRA |
1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | |||
| 6 | NOR |
2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 9 | |
| 7 | GER |
1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | |
| 8 | CZE |
1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| 9 | UKR |
1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | ||
| 10 | AUT |
1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||
| 11 | POL |
1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||||
| 12 | HUN |
1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| 12 | TUR |
1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||||
| 14 | DEN |
1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |||||
| 15 | AZE |
1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| 15 | HKG |
1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| 15 | ITA |
1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| 15 | ROU |
1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| 15 | SWE |
1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| 20 | KAZ |
2 | 2 | 2 | |||||||
| 21 | AIN |
1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| 21 | GBR |
1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| 21 | ISL |
1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| 19 | 19 | 19 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 37 | 37 | 37 | 111 | ||