Curtain comes down on ISSF Final Olympic Qualification Championship
Doha: Sweden’s Marcus Svensson won the gold medal in the Skeet Men competition, at the conclusion of the ISSF Final Olympic Qualification Championship Shotgun, which was held at the Lusail Shooting Ranges Complex. Chile's Francisca Crovetto won the women's gold medal.
The competitions on the final day of the tournament were strong and exciting and saw the participation of 207 male and female shooters - 136 male and 71 female shooters - in the fifth and final round, with the 6 best male and 6 female shooters qualifying for the final round.
Sweden’s Marcus Svensson won the gold medal in the skeet competition after coming first with a score of 55 plates, ahead of Estonia's Peter Juerisson, who came second and won the silver medal with 53 plates, while the Kazakh player Eduard Yechshenko came third and won the bronze medal with 44 plates.
The second and third-place holders would qualify for the Paris Olympics due to the first-place holder having previously obtained a qualifying card.
In the women's category, competitions between the top 6 shooters in the final round saw a tie between the first and second-place players with a score of 54 plates.
A tie-breaking round was resorted to, which resulted in Chile's Francisca Crovetto winning the gold medal in the skeet competition, leaving the runner-up position to the Indian Chauhan Maheshwari, while China's Jiang Yiting came third place with 45 dishes.
The second-placed Indian Chauhan Maheshwari, and the fourth-placed Swedish Victoria Larsson, received qualification cards for the Paris Olympics, due to the first- and third-placed having previously obtained two qualifying cards.
At the conclusion of the competitions, President of the International Shooting Sport Federation (ISSF) Luciano Rossi and President of the Qatar Shooting and Archery Association, Dr. Mishaal Ibrahim Al Nasr crowned the winners of the first three places, and honored all the technical committee staff and referees of the tournament, bringing the curtain down on the ISSF Final Olympic Qualification Championship Shotgun in Doha.
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