ISSF World Championships, Zagreb

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From the NTSA website:

49th ISSF World Shooting Championships.
Contributed by Patrick O'Brien
Wednesday, 19 July 2006
The 49th ISSF World Shooting Championships which takes place every four years, will take place this year in Zagreb, Croatia from 20th July until 5th August 2006.

Representing Ireland in the Rifle events at this major international championship will be a team of 8.

Leslie Fagan, competing in the Men’s 50m prone.
Damien Fagan, competing in the Junior Men’s Air rifle.
Elizabeth O’Hagan, Susan Cunningham, Paula Cunningham, will compete in the Junior Women’s Air rifle.

They will be accompanied by
Patrick O'Brien, Head of Delegation.
Marie Fagan, Team Official.
Barry Dagger, Team Coach.

The NTSA wish the Team a successful journey and successful competition.

To keep up to date on the competition and results you can visit the Official Championships Web site, Here

The air rifle shooters will be training on Saturday from 0900 to 1430, and Leslie from 1400 to 2200 on Saturday; the events are then all on on Tuesday afternoon from 1300 to 1815 for the air rifle and the elimination in 50m is on all tuesday; if Leslie makes it through, the match proper is on Wednesday morning.

From Wilkinstown:

The Irish team taking part in the World Championships in Zagreb next week is fully drawn from WTSC. The team comprises Leslie Fagan (50m prone Senior) and Paula, Susan, Damien and Elizabeth who are all shooting junior 10 air rifle.

This selection indicates the strength of our club and also proves if proof be needed that training is necessary. WE need to get more shooters training in the air guns and also in .22 rifle so that we can build up a very capable group of motivated shooters who can take their place on National squads and bring home the bacon!

We wish our shooters well

The team going over to represent Ireland:

Leslie Fagan




















And Matt and Geoff, the two coaches who trained them to make up the team and made all this possible:

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On behalf of the IPSA may I wish the team the very best of luck. and a safe and enjoyable event.

John FitzGerald RD I.P.S.A

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Scores are in from the first few match (and the qualifying rounds for a few other matches), though none of our shooters have shot yet.

10m Air Pistol:

1 1362 PANG Wei CHN 97 95 98 98 99 97 584 Final: 99.8 683.8
2 3123 PANICHPATIKUM Jakkrit THA 97 93 99 98 97 98 582 Final: 101.0 683.0
3 2791 GONTCHAROV Vladimir RUS 98 97 97 98 96 95 581 Final: 100.1 681.1
4 2831 ISAKOV Vladimir RUS 97 99 95 97 96 97 581 Final: 100.0 681.0
5 2832 NESTRUEV Mikhail RUS 97 97 96 97 98 98 583 Final: 97.6 680.6
6 3255 MAKAROV Victor UKR 97 97 98 98 99 94 583 Final: 97.1 680.1
7 1374 LIN Zhongzai CHN 99 95 98 98 97 95 582 Final: 97.6 679.6 S-Off: 10.0
8 2260 YUNUSMETOV Rashid KAZ 99 96 95 97 97 98 582 Final: 97.6 679.6 S-Off: 9.0

Other results are coming up here as we speak, and you also can watch the shots hitting the targets live. For example, Mike Gault's rather odd fourth string (something must have gone wrong on shot 31, this is way below his normal form):

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From ISSF:





Wei Pang (CHN) won the first final of the 10m Air Rifle Men event at the 49th ISSF World Championship 2006 in Zagreb.

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10m Men's Air Rifle:

1 2057 BINDRA Abhinav IND 100 99 100 100 99 99 597 Final: 102.1 699.1
2 2748 MOLDOVEANU Alin George ROM 100 100 99 99 100 99 597 Final: 101.3 698.3
3 1358 ZHU Qinan CHN 98 99 99 100 99 100 595 Final: 102.9 697.9
4 3051 GONCI Jozef SVK 100 100 99 99 100 99 597 Final: 100.8 697.8
5 1185 BUBNOVICH Vitali BLR 100 99 99 98 99 100 595 Final: 102.3 697.3
6 2834 PRIKHODTCHENKO Konstantin RUS 99 100 99 100 99 99 596 Final: 100.8 696.8
7 1102 PLANER Christian AUT 98 98 100 100 99 100 595 Final: 100.8 695.8
8 1370 LI Jie CHN 98 100 100 97 100 100 595 Final: 100.7 695.7

Scarily high scores to get in there - remember, the usual winning score in Irish Nationals is around 580. Here, that gets you 92nd place, way back on page three of the scores sheets!

From ISSF:

The third time is a charm
For the 23-year-old Abhinav Bindra, of India, this third time was a charm. In what was his third try at the title, Bindra was able to walk away the World Champion in men’s air rifle today. Alin George Moldoveanu, of Romania, came in second, while China’s Qinan Zhu took third.

Our rifle shooters are up tomorrow, while the shotgun shooters (Barry Lynch, Thomas Allen and Derek Burnett) will be training; if Leslie makes it through the elimination round in 50m prone, he'll be in the actual qualifiers on Wednesday morning, while the shotgun team is competing over Wednesday and Thursday. Remember, the Irish Trap team brought home the Team Gold medal from the 2002 world championships, so everyone's going to be looking to them for a strong performance in nearly 40 degree heat!

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Some results from the Junior's competitions so far. Interesting to see how they compare with the Senior scores on the international stage, since we're so used to Junior's kicking Senior's behinds in Ireland: the 580 that won the 10m Junior Men's Air Pistol event, for example, wouldn't even have made it into the Finals in the Senior event.

10m Junior Womens Air Pistol

1 2891 ZARIC Brankica SCG 97 94 95 98 384
2 1397 LIU Weiwei CHN 96 97 94 97 384
3 2075 SRAO Harven IND 91 94 99 98 382
4 1281 BONEVA Antoaneta BUL 96 96 96 94 382
5 2923 ZHAO Hui Jing SIN 94 92 96 98 380
6 1904 HOCHMUTH Julia GER 90 94 98 97 379
7 2328 OH Min Kyung KOR 93 94 96 96 379
8 1408 SUN Qi CHN 91 96 97 95 379

10m Junior Mens Air Pistol

1 1344 PU Qifeng CHN 95 96 96 98 96 99 580
2 2300 LEE Daemyung KOR 96 95 95 99 98 95 578
3 1364 MAI Jiajie CHN 97 97 98 95 98 93 578
4 2806 EKIMOV Leonid RUS 94 96 96 99 97 95 577
5 1512 PECHACEK Martin CZE 95 92 93 99 98 99 576
6 2058 JHAAM Amanpreet IND 96 92 98 97 97 95 575
7 2642 USZYNSKI Dawid POL 97 96 95 94 95 97 574
8 2999 GRUNDER Lukas SUI 96 96 96 95 95 96 574

25m Junior Womens Pistol

1 2892 ARUNOVIC Zorana SCG
Precision 100 95 96 291
Rapid 94 97 95 286 577
2 1405 YU Lu CHN
Precision 93 94 96 283
Rapid 98 97 98 293 576
3 2866 SUSLONOVA Alena RUS
Precision 94 96 95 285
Rapid 98 94 98 290 575 S-off 49
4 2321 AHN Soo Kyeong KOR
Precision 93 94 94 281
Rapid 99 97 98 294 575 S-off 47
5 1378 LI Jie CHN
Precision 97 97 100 294
Rapid 91 96 94 281 575 S-off 47
6 1278 KOSTOVA Monika BUL
Precision 94 95 94 283
Rapid 98 96 97 291 574
7 2483 MOHD IBRAHIM Siti Nur Masita MAS
Precision 97 94 93 284
Rapid 96 98 94 288 572
8 1281 BONEVA Antoaneta BUL
Precision 97 95 94 286
Rapid 94 92 99 285 571

50m Junior Mens Pistol

1 1344 PU Qifeng CHN 94 95 95 97 91 88 560
2 1272 SAVOV Ventsislav BUL 93 92 90 97 91 91 554
3 2300 LEE Daemyung KOR 90 89 93 94 95 91 552
4 1869 BRUNNER Florian GER 90 90 92 92 91 94 549
5 1061 MARTIN Patrick AUS 92 93 89 91 91 92 548
6 1202 KUDZI Vitali BLR 91 93 93 92 87 91 547
7 2813 CHERVYAKOVSKIY Sergey RUS 90 92 93 89 94 89 547
8 1897 SCHMIDT Florian GER 87 94 94 92 87 92 546

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10 m Women's Air Rifle:

1 1384 DU Li CHN 100 100 100 98 398 Final: 104.1 502.1
2 1532 KURKOVA Katerina CZE 100 99 99 100 398 Final: 103.8 501.8
3 2269 DOVGUN Olga KAZ 100 100 100 98 398 Final: 102.9 500.9
4 1399 ZHAO Yinghui CHN 99 99 99 100 397 Final: 103.6 500.6
5 2846 BOBKOVA Marina RUS 100 99 100 100 399 Final: 100.4 499.4
6 1930 PFEILSCHIFTER Sonja GER 99 100 100 100 399 Final: 100.0 499.0
7 1915 LECHNER Barbara GER 98 99 100 100 397 Final: 101.6 498.6
8 2067 SIDHU Avneet Kaur IND 97 100 100 100 397 Final: 101.1 498.1

Again, scarily high scores. We really are getting nearer to the stage where we'll have multiple possible scores going into the finals.

From ISSF:

In a streak that started in this very same spot in 2003, China’s Li Du comes full circle with a win in women’s air rifle at the 49th ISSF World Championships today, in Zagreb, Croatia.

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Not to forget, our rifle shooters are shooting today:
10m Junior Men's Air Rifle (1200 - 1345)
10m Junior Women's Air Rifle (1415-1530 and 1600-1715)
50m Men's Prone Rifle (1100-1545 - there are three details, I'm not sure which one Leslie's on but I think it's the first).

You can watch the scores as the shots hit the targets (literally) here.

Fingers crossed!

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More live links:

Leslie's match this morning.

Damien's match (on now!).

Susan's match (on now!).

Paula's match (on now!).

Elizabeth's match (on in an hour or so).

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Scores in:

Leslie's match : 95 96 99 94 96 94 574

Susan's match : 93 95 92 97 377 (MQS)

Paula's match : 92 93 91 92 368

Damien's still shooting, but it looks like a 575ish score from here.

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... and Damien's fired his last shot : 97 96 92 97 95 95 572 (MQS)

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10m Junior Men's Air Rifle

1 2033 FARATADE Navanath Bhanud IND 100 100 99 100 99 98 596
2 1426 GORSA Petar CRO 99 99 100 100 98 99 595
3 1363 CAO Yifei CHN 98 98 99 99 99 100 593
4 1509 HAMAN Vaclav CZE 97 98 100 100 99 99 593
5 1616 LOPEZ Javier ESP 97 99 98 99 99 100 592
6 2154 CAMPRIANI Niccolo ITA 99 97 98 99 100 99 592
7 2296 YU Jaechul KOR 99 98 98 99 100 98 592
8 3327 ABALO Christopher USA 97 98 99 100 98 99 591
...
69 1783 PARR Kenneth GBR 94 99 95 98 97 94 577
...
72 1795 SUTHERLAND Nathan GBR 94 97 97 98 96 94 576
...
79 2111 FAGAN Damien IRL 97 96 92 97 95 95 572
...
91 1791 DOUGLAS Scott Andrew de GBR 90 95 93 92 96 94 560

I've listed the GB juniors there as well for comparison. Not a great shoot for Damien - he's capable of a good bit better than that - but for 30 degree heat and 66% humidity, that's not so bad. It's over the minimum qualifying score for the olympics (570) so that'd be a junior carding grant for him if he hadn't already qualified for one earlier this year. But it's lower than 50th place, so the next grant level up isn't going to happen this time.

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Elizabeth's shooting now...
So far a 95, 91.

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And that's Elizabeth's match finished. Not a great score for her, again she's got a lot more potential, but with the pressure, the heat and the humidity, it's not a bad performance for her first time out at a big match.

95 91 87 90 363

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So,
Leslie's match: 95 96 99 94 96 94 574
Damien's match: 97 96 92 97 95 95 572 MQS
Susan's match: 93 95 92 97 377 MQS
Paula's match: 92 93 91 92 368
Elizabeth's match: 95 91 87 90 363.

Two MQS scores, meaning carding grants for next year, and one point off a PB for Paula (in her first big international match!). Not a bad result. Tomorrow sees the first day of shooting for the shotgun shooters, to be concluded on Thursday.

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10m Junior Women's Air Rifle

1 1410 ZHANG Yi CHN 100 100 100 99 399
2 2332 LEE Sena KOR 99 99 99 100 397
3 2245 KAIZUKA Yuriko JPN 100 98 98 100 396
4 2323 PARK Jeongye KOR 99 99 99 99 396
5 1379 CHEN Jian CHN 98 100 98 99 395
6 2890 ZIVKOVIC Jelena SCG 98 100 99 98 395
7 1633 REIGADAS Ana ESP 98 99 98 99 394
8 2608 VESTVEIT Kristina NOR 98 99 99 98 394
...
63 1823 CORISH Sian GBR 96 97 96 98 387
...
78 1810 FLOWERS Melanie Ruth GBR 95 96 98 96 385 21*
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81 1821 PIDGLEY Rebekah Eloise GBR 96 97 99 93 385
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102 2117 CUNNINGHAM Susan IRL 93 95 92 97 377
...
109 2116 CUNNINGHAM Paula IRL 92 93 91 92 368
110 2115 OHAGAN Elizabeth IRL 95 91 87 90 363

Again, I've listed the GB juniors there as well for comparison. Well under par for Susan and Elizabeth, but that's one point off Paula's PB, no mean feat in such a stressful environment. The 21* beside Melanie's score is the number of tens she shot, used to break between her score and another shooter's score who shot not only her identical end score, but also identical scores in every string.

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From the ICSPA:

Derek Burnett is leading the field after day one at the ISSF World Championships
currently taking place in Croatia in the Olympic Trap event having shot a sensational 75 straight to give himself a one target lead. Barry Lynch shot a 70 and the third member of the team Tom Allen shot a 68. These scores leave the team in joint fourth place overall and a mere five targets behind the leaders and it is still all to play for as they enter the second and final day of the competition. We wish them all well and the final results will be posted as they become available. (Posted 26/07/06)

ISSF World Championships Olympic Trap Leader Board Men Day 1

ISSF World Championships Olympic Trap Leader Board Men-Team Day 1

Huzzah!

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50m Men's Prone Rifle:

1 1192 MARTYNOV Sergei BLR 100 100 100 100 100 99 599 Final: 103.1 702.1
2 3257 SUKHORUKOV Jury UKR 100 99 99 99 99 100 596 Final: 104.9 700.9
3 2187 DE NICOLO Marco ITA 100 100 99 99 99 100 597 Final: 103.6 700.6
4 1089 KNOEGLER Mario AUT 100 100 98 99 100 100 597 Final: 103.5 700.5
5 2997 BEYELER Simon SUI 100 100 100 100 99 98 597 Final: 103.4 700.4
6 2257 BELYAYEV Sergey KAZ 98 100 100 99 100 99 596 Final: 104.3 700.3
7 1052 POTENT Warren AUS 99 99 100 98 100 100 596 Final: 103.7 699.7
8 3314 MCPHAIL Michael USA 98 100 99 99 100 100 596 Final: 102.7 698.7

(By comparison, the winning score in the Irish 50m nationals this year was 576 in qualifying and 677.1 as the final score. We've a long ways to make up yet!)

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Word in from Zagreb - Derek didn't make the finals, but he did place high enough to win a quota place for Ireland for the Bejing Olympics!

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From the ICPSA:

After two days of intense competition at the very highest level, Derek Burnett heartbreakingly missed out on a place in the finals at the ISSF World Championships following a sudden death shoot off having originally tied for joint fourth place with three other competitors. There was more than ample compensation however when the Sydney and Athens veteran secured a precious quota place for the Beijing Olympics and the Association congratulates and commends Derek on this outstanding individual achievement.

Fellow team member and past Olympian Tom Allen eventually finished in 60th place with a score of 113 and Barry Lynch scored 111 to finish in 77th position but the team slipped from 4th place after day one to finish in 14th place from a field of 33 entries.

Special mention must again go to Kevin Kilty who in his role as High Performance Director has not only steered the programme to this well deserved success but has also managed to gather around him a support team second to none which has in no small way contributed to Derek and the rest of the squad members achievements at these Championships and recent World Cup events.

The Irish Sports Councils continued invaluable support and belief in our sport and its participants has also to be acknowledged and applauded and now that the first hurdle has been cleared with regard to Olympic qualification for at least one competitor the programme can look forward with renewed enthusiasm to the European Championships in six weeks time and the hoped for further progression of more Irish shooters. Full results will be posted when they become available.
(Posted 27/07/06)

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From the Olympic Council of Ireland:

[27-07-2006] Olympic Shooting Place for Ireland

Subject to confirmation, Derek Burnett has secured a place for Ireland in shooting at the forthcoming 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Derek finished in 7th place in the trap event at the 49th Shooting World Championships currently being held in Zagreb, Croatia. His score of 121 was just 2 points behind the Gold medalist, Sandhu of Indonesia.

More details of this exciting development will be posted when they come to hand.