Almaktoum New World Champion

The unique shooter, who won the first Olympic Gold medal for his nation at the last Olympic Games in Athens 2004, just added another important title to his shooting sport achievements by winning today’s Gold medal at the first final of the ISSF World Championships in Lonato. He also created the basis for the next Olympic Games participation, the Quota place for Beijing 2008. „I am very happy that I won that Quota place today, but at the Beijing Games the competition against the Chinese athletes will be extremely difficult. “ „It took it very easy this year, just to prepare for today“, said Almaktoum just a few days ago, who did not go to World Cup in Rome last week. Almaktoum finished with a final score of 189 targets after missing four targets during the final round. On second place followed Wang Nan, 26, from China. Wang hit also 46 targets during the final, passing Jeffrey Holguin from the United States of America who started on place two after the qualification round but who fell back on place four after missing nine targets in the final. Wang competed today for the first time as a finalist at an ISSF competition. In third place moved Park Jung Wan, 27, from Korea. The Asian Champion of Langkawi 2000 only missed three targets during the final and moved from up from place five before the final to be the Bronze medalist of Double Trap Men. In the Double Trap Team Men event China was taking the lead with a total score of 414, followed by the United Arab Emirates with 411. Team Bronze went to the United States of America with 406 targets.