17/04/2022
GERMANY AND NORWAY WIN GOLD AT ISSF CUP RIFLE/PISTOL RIO DE JANEIRO.
On the penultimate day of the ISSF World Cup Rifle/Pistol Rio de Janeiro, athletes from Germany and Norway won the gold medal in the 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men and the 50m Rifle 3 Positions Mixed Team, respectively. The competition ends, this Monday, at the Military Shooting Sport Centre, with the 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Team Men, at 10:15 am Brasília time.
In the medal dispute in the 25m Rapid Fire Pistol, Men the German Christian Reitz was more accurate than his opponents and won the gold, with 29 hits. The silver went to the Frenchman Jean Quiquampoix, while the American Henry Turner Leverette secured the bronze. It was Reitz’s second gold medal at that World Cup. The first was in the 10m Air Pistol Mixed, along with his wife, Sandra Reitz.
In the 50m 3 Positions Mixed Team, the athletes from Norway secured gold and bronze. In the dispute for the first place, the Norwegian duo Jeanette Hegg and Jon-Hermann Hegg beat the Czechs Lucie Brazdova and Jiri Privratsky by 16-12, after an 8-2 disadvantage. The third place went to Jenny Stene and Simon Claussen, from Norway, who beat Gitra Bajos and Istvan Peni of Hungary 16-14.
In the medal table, Germany keeps in first place, with six gold, three silver and two bronze (eleven in total). In second place is Norway with three gold, four silver and three bronze (ten in total). The Czech Republic appears in third place, with three gold and two silver (five in total). Brazil is 13th, with two bronze medals.
The ISSF World Cup Rifle / Pistol Rio de Janeiro is organized by the Brazilian Shooting Sport Confederation, with the support of the Brazil Olympic Committee, the Brazilian Army, the Companhia Brasileira de Cartuchos, the Sellier&Bellot and the ECOS Turismo.