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❆ GOLD MO, Junjie (CHN)
THE YOUNGEST AT THE TOP
The Chinese team, competing before its supporters,
started the 2009 World Cup Final at
the lead, winning Gold and Silver at the Double
Trap Men Final. The youngest finalist, 21year
old Chinese shooter Mo Jiunjie, won the
final round and obtained his first ISSF World
Cup Final Gold medal with a total score of 189
targets (144+45). The young athlete did not
hesitate before his older and titled opponents,
climbing to the lead after the first shots. He
qualified for the final round tied to his teammate
Hu Binyuan, the Olympic Bronze medalist,
and to American Olympian Jeffrey Holguin
with 144 hits. While his opponents missed
eight targets each throughout the 50-target
final, Mo climbed to the lead and ended up
in first place with 45 hits, winning Gold with
a total score of 189 targets. Mo made it into
the ISSF World Cup circuit this year, taking
part in his first WC stage last spring. Surprising
the experts, he qualified to participate in
this year’s World Cup Final by winning a Gold
medal at the World Cup Stage of San Marino.
Mo’s team-mate, 31-year old Chinese
shooter Hu Binyuan, medalist at the last Olympic
Games held at the same range in Beijing,
lost his chance to win the competition on his
last shot. Hu already had a foot on the podium,
when he missed his last target, falling back in
second place, tied with the USA’s Holguin with
a total score of 186 hits (144+42 each). The two
opponents had to participate in a shoot-off to
assign the Silver and the Bronze medal. Holguin,
shooting first, missed a target on his second
pair, thereby placing in third with a total
score of 186+3 targets and leaving Hu Binyuan
the Silver medal with 186+4 hits. “If I had made
it to the second spot in the shoot-off, I would
probably have had a better chance,” commented
Holguin right after the medal ceremony.
During today’s final, he hit 42 targets, as he
had done during the final of the last Olympic
Games, when he placed in fourth. “It’s great to
be back on the Olympic Range of Beijing – he
commented – and this time I walking out with
something in my hands.”
“Final scores were not that high today.
I think it was because of the targets – Holguin
said about the high number of missed
targets – the flash targets used in finals are
heavier than the regular ones we use in qualifications.
They fly differently, breaking every
shooter’s routine. We have seen it more than
once, throughout the season.”
“The qualification system of the USA for
the Olympic team has changed. From next
year’s on, aside from the usual Olympic trials,
we will obtain points based on competition results.
So, every World Cup is going to be determinant
to make it into the 2012 Olympic team”,
concluded the American shooter, speaking
DOUBLE TRAP
MEN
❆ SILVER HU, Binyuan (CHN)
❆ BRONZE HOLGUIN, Jeffrey (USA)
about the importance of the 2010 season,
when the ISSF will distribute the first Olympic
Quota Places for London 2012 at the World
Championship in Munich.
Another star of 2008 Olympics, Beijing’s
Silver medalist, Francesco D’Aniello of Italy,
did not make it to the podium. The Italian
shooter, one of the favorites according to statistics
finished in fourth place, closing his final
round with a total score of 181 hits (142+39).
The experienced Italian shooter missed the
chance to end his season with a poker of
Golds, since he had won this year’s World
Championship, European Championship and
an ISSF World Cup Gold.
Sweden’s Champion Hakan Dahlby followed
D’Aniello in fifth, scoring 181 targets
(142+39), while the Olympic Champion of Atlanta
1996, Mark Russell of Australia, finished
in sixth with 176 hits.
❆ Awards Double Trap Men