THE 50TH ISSF WORLD SHOOTING CHAMPIONSHIP IN MUNICH
THE 50TH ISSF WORLD SHOOTING CHAMPIONSHIP IN MUNICH
THE 50TH ISSF WORLD SHOOTING CHAMPIONSHIP IN MUNICH
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1st marTynOv, sergei (Blr)<br />
course. I’m used to be the “vice”… I’ve been<br />
European vice-champion, now I’m world vicechampion.”<br />
Said Sauveplane, who was also<br />
granted the second of the five 2012 Olympic<br />
Quota Places to be awarded in this event.<br />
“I am extremely satisfied with the Quota. I<br />
have been looking for an Olympic entry pass<br />
throughout the last two Olympic cycles without<br />
getting one, so I know what it’s worth!”<br />
The 50m Rifle Prone Men final also crowned<br />
the first US athletes qualified for the next<br />
2012 Olympic Games, maTThew emmOns,<br />
who ended in third place, winning the Bronze<br />
and the Quota for his country. The 29-year<br />
old American shooter from Grand Rapids,<br />
Minnesota, a 2004 Olympic Champion of<br />
Athens and 2008 Olympic Silver medallist of<br />
Beijing, finished on the podium with a total<br />
of 702.2 (598+104.2) points. “It’s great to be<br />
the one who takes the first Olympic Quota for<br />
America,” said Matthew after the match “Of<br />
course, I am not automatically qualified. The<br />
Quota goes to the US Shooting team. All of<br />
the American shooters are passing through<br />
a qualification system in order to decide who<br />
will go to the next Games,” concluded Emmons,<br />
who has always represented the USA<br />
at the Olympics since he started competing<br />
internationally in 2001.<br />
Emmons also guided the US team to the<br />
highest step of the teams’ podium. Along<br />
with his team-mates Michael McPhail and<br />
Eric Uptagrafft, they scored an overall of 1791<br />
points and 117 inner tenths, finishing in first<br />
place with some advantage over the Korean<br />
team of Han Jinseop, Kim Jonghyun and Kim<br />
Hak Man. The Russian Federation finished<br />
in third place with an overall score of 1790<br />
points fired by Artem Khadjibekov, Konstantin<br />
Prikhodtchenko and Dmitry Ponomarev.<br />
50 th <strong>ISSF</strong> World ChampIoNShIp muNICh<br />
2nd saUveplane, valerian (fra)<br />
3rd emmOns, matthew (Usa)<br />
Closing the individual ranking, Norway’s<br />
Vebjoern Berg and India’s Harlom Singh earned<br />
the last two Olympic passes in fifth and sixth<br />
place. Thirty year-old Norwegian engineer<br />
Berg placed in fifth with 701.4 (598+103.4)<br />
points, earning am entry pass for London two<br />
years after his fourth place at the 2008 Olympics,<br />
while India’s Singh obtained an Olympic<br />
Quota for his country with a score of 700.9<br />
(598+102.9) points at his first participation<br />
ever in an international shooting competition.<br />
<strong>ISSF</strong> NEWS 39
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