THE 50TH ISSF WORLD SHOOTING CHAMPIONSHIP IN MUNICH

fifth participation in the Games since 1996.
Twenty-nine year old Belarusian Olympian
viKTOria chaiKa finished in third place,
just as she did four years ago in Zagreb, earning
a Quota Place. The 1998 Junior World
Champion closed the match in third with
485.0 points after firing a frustrating 8.2 in a
shoot-off against Yauhleuskaya. Not on the
podium, but qualified for the next Games,
2004 Olympic medallist Lenka Maruskova
of Czech Republic placed in fourth with
482.3 points. The 24-year old Czech shooter
beat Mira Suhonen, 25 years old, who fired
a couple of frustrating shots in the eighth
ring, sliding down to fifth place with a total
score of 482.3 points. This turned out to be
an unlucky round for 2008 Olympic Champion
Guo Wenjun, who lost the duel for the sixth
2nd yaUhleUsKaya, lalita (aUs)
and last Olympic Quota place. The 26-year
old shooter, ranked first in the world in this
event, shot neck and neck with her younger
team-mate Su Yuling, eventually finishing
in seventh place with 480.8 points, just 0.2
behind Su, who won the Quota. The two
Chinese athletes, in spite of being among the
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best, only finished in third place in the teams’
ranking. The team Gold was won by Australia
with 1145 points scored by Yauhleuskaya,
Dina Aspandiyarova and Linda Ryan, while
the teams’ Silver went to the Korean team
with 1143 points.
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