<strong>WCF</strong> BEIJING 20 ISSF NEWS TARGETS AMONG THE SNOWFLAKES
All Photos: Marco Della Dea I ce, wind and artificial snow did not prevent the champions from shooting at their best. “The snow? We have forced it to fall!” said Ms. Zhang Qiang, responsible for Beijing’s Weather Modification office, speaking about the element that affected this year’s World Cup Final, which surprised the shooters. The intense snowfall that covered the Olympic Clay Target Field of Beijing during this year’s World Cup Final was not completely natural, as the meteorological officer confirmed. Over sixteen millions of tons of snow fallen over the city were “produced” artificially. Beijing’s Weather Modification Office worked on it, using the same system used to prevent the rain from falling over the Beijing Olympic Games. This time, the silver iodide powder which was previously used to “make it rain outside the city” during the Games, was used to keep the heavy clouds over the sky of the city, as Beijing is suffering from drought. „We wont miss any opportunity of artificial precipitation since Beijing is suffering from a lingering drought,“ Ms. Zhang Qiang confirmed to the journalists „We have used a total of 186 doses of silver iodide, sprinkled the clouds to force the snow to fall,“ she said. “Adding sixteen million tons of snow to our preliminary calculation.” Most of those freezing tons of fresh snow fell over the Olympic Clay Target Field of Beijing while the Trap and Skeet shooters were going through their qualification rounds. “Sounds great! I had never shot before in the snow…” sarcastically commented Beijing’s Olympic Champion Vincent Hancock, from the USA, who shot his way to the final round through the snowflakes. “I cannot believe it!” Added Dan- ka Bartekova, a finalist in the Skeet Women’s event. “You might say it’s just bad luck – commented Norway’s Tore Brovold, Silver medalist in Skeet at the last Games – but this Final comes late in the season, we knew that we were going to face difficult weather here. You can get used to shoot in the snow, but it takes time and training. And this is the first snow of the season, at least for me. I come from Norway, what about the others? During the snowfall the visibility was very poor. And when the sun began to shine again, it was even worse, due to the bothersome light-reflection…” THE MEDAL STANDINGS: THE SNOW DID NOT AFFECT CHINA The Chinese team did not disappoint their fans’ expectations and it experienced a successful competition, taking full advantage of the home court advantage. Out of the five new World Cup Champions, two were Chinese: The youngest Double Trap participant, Mo Junjie, obtained the first Gold medal, followed by his experienced team-mate Liu Yingzi, who won Gold at the Trap Women final in spite of the severe weather conditions. Looking at the overall medal standings of the competition, the home shooters made it to the top of the rankings, climbing to the lead with a total of three medals: two Golds and one Silver. Three nations, Australia, France and Germany, tied in second place with one Gold medal each. Olympic multi-medalist Michael Diamond, who we rated among the favorites, placed Australia to the overall medal standings by winning the Trap Men’s Final on the coldest day of the competition: shooting eight degrees below <strong>WCF</strong> BEIJING 2009 ISSF SHOTGUN WORLD CUP FINAL BEIJING THE 2009 ISSF WORLD CUP FINAL IN SHOTGUN EVENTS WAS HELD AT THE OLYMPIC SHOOTING RANGE OF BEIJING, FROM OCTOBER 29 TO NOVEMBER 3. SEVERE TEMPERATURES AND AN EXTRAORDINARY SNOWFALL TURNED THE MATCHES INTO HURDLES, WITH THE CONDITIONS OF THE COMPETITIONS CHANGING DAY AFTER DAY. THE WORLD’S SIXTY BEST SHOTGUN SHOOTERS, SELECTED THROUGHOUT THIS YEAR’S WORLD CUP CIRCUIT, AS WELL AS THE ISSF WORLD CHAMPI- ONS, MET IN BEIJING TO COMPETE IN THE FINAL WORLD CUP COMPETITION OF THE SEASON. zero, he participated in a shoot-off against two Italian finalists, later on climbing to the lead to win his third World Cup Final title. Beijing’s Olympic Bronze medalist, French shooter Anthony Terras, earned Gold at the Skeet Men’s event, stepping up Beijing’s podium once again fifteen months after the Games. Qualified during the snowfall, he shot the final on a bright and cold morning, fighting against the bright glitter of the fresh snow. Germany also made it to the “podium”, thanks to the Gold medal won by Christine Wenzel (Christine Brinker, before her marriage to Tino Wenzel, last September) at the Skeet Women’s competition. The recently awarded World Champion concluded the 2009 season on the highest step of the podium in Beijing, and said she is aiming to obtain one of the first Olympic Quota places that will be assigned at next year’s ISSF World Championship in Munich. THE MEDAL STANDINGS RK NOC G S B TOTAL 1 CHN 2 1 0 3 2 AUS 1 0 0 1 3 FRA 1 0 0 1 4 GER 1 0 0 1 5 ITA 0 2 1 3 6 USA 0 1 1 2 7 SVK 0 1 0 1 8 CYP 0 0 1 1 9 FIN 0 0 1 1 10 RUS 0 0 1 1 TOTAL 5 5 5 15 ISSF NEWS 21
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