European Championships in shotgun

It happened so, that Valery Shomin did not manage to compete for the podium. Just one miss let him down to the 5th place.

Georgios Salavantakis also suffered a miss, that made him rank the 6th. Jan Sychra felt himself a bit more confident, having 3 points handicap before the final. As it turned out, it was enough to win the Champions’ title, in spite of the two misses suffered. Ralf Buchheim (GER), Antony Terras (FRA) and Ennio Falco (ITA) shoot accurately and had no misses and consequently were involved in the shoot-off for the silver and the bronze.

Continue reading Three points advantage was enough to win

Competitions on trap were to close the 33rd European Championships in Shotgun. To begin the last competition day they hold three qualification rounds, and to proceed there was a fascinating final, with Valery Shomnin from Russia among its participants.

It happened so, that none of the Russian juniors managed to qualify to the final. Andrey Garanin (112 points) ranked the 15th, followed by Alexander Zemlin (111 points), considered as one of the main hopes of the Russian junior team. Evgueny Molodin started the competitions in a quite confident manner, hitting 49 targets out of 50, though having suffered five misses, finished qualification on the 19th place (111 points). Quite clear, that it was pretty difficult for Russians to claim for the team podium. As a result, they ranked on the 6th place, strongly defeated by Germany, having 346 points, three more than Sweden, which ranked the second, and five more, than the British team, awarded by bronze.

Continue reading Fascinating final of the Championship

Women and juniors were to award medals in skeet on the last but one competition day of the European Championships in Shotgun-2010. The weather played for the shooters, the heat became milder, making the competitions at the ranges stronger and closer.

Men and juniors had two rounds on Friday, after which Delaunay (FRA), Falco and Lodde (ITA) were on the top. Shooters managed to shoot 11 “clean” sessions in the first round followed by five more in the second one, but not a man could suffer a round without a miss. As a result, 11 shooters hit 49 points, followed by two more with 48 and nine with 47 points. Just one Russian Valery Shomin was among the leaders, ranking the 19th. Nicolay Pilshchikov and Roman Sentsov managed to acquire 46 and 45 points respectively, placing the 30th and the 32nd.

Continue reading Such a battle in skeet!

The second event of the ESC President’s Trophy had another formula, unlike to the competition day before. It is a pleasure to state, that Vasily Mosin from Kazan won Super final in double trap.

This time organizers arranged it in such a way, that just 8 shoters competed for the main prize. They were 4 men (Francesco Daniello, Peter Wilson, Hakan Dahlby, Vasily Mosin) and 4 juniors (Artem Nekrasov, Maxim Lazarev, Filipp Praj, Alessandro Chianese). And all they had to shoot eliminating until the first miss. Two shooters were more accurate than the rest. The final turned to be some kind of a remake for Vasily Mosin and Hakan Dahlby.

Continue reading ESC President’s Trophy instead of a medal

Vasily Mosin qualified directly to the final in double trap, placing the fourth after qualification. The second set of medals was to be played at the European Championships in Shotgun second event.

An optional shoot off was held at double trap men competition in order to define the participants of the final. David Gasparini (ITA) and Vitaly Fokeev (RUS) both had 138 points in qualification. As it turned out, their duel did not last for long. Gasparini was the first to shoot and he suffered a bad miss on the second duplet. Fokeev took good use of his chance, accurately hit the targets and qualified to the final.

Continue reading Some more podiums for Russia

Shooting-range “Sviyaga” staging the XXXIII European Championships in Shotgun will witness double trap competitions on Wednesday, and several days earlier it housed a close clash for the medals in trap.

Rafis Burganov, Minister on affairs of youth, sport and tourism affairs of the Republic of Tatarstan, followed the competitions attentively and stayed to watch the Super Final, performed under the name of the ESC President’s Trophy. We took good use of his presence at the competitions to learn his view at the Championships and the way it’s going.

Continue reading Rafis Burganov: Such a top level competitions are the first time in Tatarstan

The first sets of medals of the European Championships in Shotgun found their way to the shooters in trap among men and juniors. They started the competition early in the morning on Sunday, testing themselves in two rounds, 25 shots each.
It happened so, that the heat calmed down. It started to rain during the break between the third and the fourth rounds. But the drops of the rain could not reach the ground, melting in the air. Although the participants did not pay attention to this – the competition was too close.

Russians did not manage to qualify to the final. Igor Chabanov had good chances to reach this. He was the best of the Russians and finished qualification on the 18th, having 117 points in his pocket. Alexey Alipov, lacked accuracy in shooting in his first competition day, scored 115 points and ranked on the 35th place. Maxim Kosarev with the same result in the second day, ranked two places lower.
Continue reading Russian juniors won two medals

The first day of the European Championships started with the women competitions in trap.

Thirty shooters were to compete for the medals not only with their opponents, but also with the heat. Charlotte Kerwood (GBR) and Sonja Scheibl (GER) were the first to get used to it, both they managed to hit 24 targets out of 24. Elodie Conesa (FRA) was better than the rest, though her 21 points of the 2nd round let her rank just the 20th. Satu Makela-Nummela (FIN) with 47 points was leading after the 2 rounds.

Maria Volkova (RUS) showed stability in her good shooting, hitting 23 targets in each, thus acquiring the 4th place before the final round of the qualification. Irina Laricheva was the 13th (47 points), and Lia Sharipova occupied the 12th place (42 points).

Jana Beckmann, with her 100% result, rushed into the leaders’ group of the 3rd round. But she had been just the fourth with 68 points at the preliminary finish, together with Satu Makela-Nummela (FIN), Alesandra Perrilli (SMR), followed by Zuzana Stefecekova (SLV), Susanne KIermayer (GER) and Maria Volkova with 69 points. Continue reading Team Germany made double victory

Men, competing in trap, held two rounds on Sunday. Alberto Fernandez was better than the rest, since he managed to hit all the targets. He was the only one to achieve the 100% result. Five shooters did not miss a target in the first round, while eight shooters at once suffered mistakes in the second round. Igor Chebanov and Maksim Kosarev hit 24 targets in the first round, while Alexsey Alipov succeeded just 22 times.

Alipov lost one shot in the second round, like Chebanov did, missing the last one.

As for Kosarev, he managed to gain 20 points. Ranking after the first day of the championships is as follows: Chebanov is on the 8th place (48 points), Alipov is on the 28th place (46 points), Kosarev is on the 56th place (44 points).

One may suppose, that tomorrow competition will be much closer, since there are three shooters at once with 49 points, 11 competitors have got 48 points, and another 11 competitors have won 47 points.