09 August 2016ANOTHER VICTORIOUS DAY FOR THE EUROPEAN SHOOTERS IN RIO
Anna Korakaki from Greece, Monika Karsch from Germany and Heidi Diethelm Gerber from Switzerland were on the podium after the end of the 25m Pistol Women even in the Deodoro Olympic Shooting Centre.Read more
08 August 2016A PERFECT DAY FOR EUROPEAN SHOOTERS IN RIO
Monday, August 8, was a perfect day for the European shooters at the Deodoro Olympic Shooting Centre. They won six out of six medals in two events that were disputed during the third day of shooting competitions at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad – 10m Air Rifle Men and Trap Men. The new Olympic medalists came from 5 different countries!Read more
10 July 2016Last day in Lonato
The hottest day is so far. Three exciting official finals plus two international competitions: Skeet Mixed teams, Double Trap Men and Men Junior and International Double Trap Women and Double Trap Mixed Teams. Quite an interesting programme for one day.Read more
09 July 2016Sunday is full of hope
Sunday was the day of skeet. The weather was probably the hottest during the Championship and that´s why it was more challenging also for the athletes. The question was how to keep the body active and sharp. Anyway the qualifications showed that athletes know what to do and how be in good shape.Read more
08 July 2016No doubt – Chiara Caineiro will win gold
Saturday woke up a little bit misty but you could feel the heat when entering out of hotel and walking at shooting range. It will be a nice sunny and sweating day again.Read more
08 July 2016Mancikova is the princess of the Skeet Women Junior
Women Juniors Qualification was very tight. The best of skeet women junior qualification was Russian Alina Fazylzyanova with result of 67 clays. Four next athletes (Radka Mancikova (CZE), Noemie Battault (FRA), Hana Adamkova (CZE), Nele Wissmer (NED)) hit 66 clays and from the last semi-final place competed in shoot-off with result 65 following athletes: Esmee van der Veen from Netherland, Finnish Niina Aaltonen, Ukrainian Olha Taranenko and Artemis Kefalidou from Greece. Finnish Niina Aaltonen succeeded excellently and won the place to semi-final. Her shoot-off result was the fourth!Read more
07 July 2016It's a Trap Mixed Team day
As we know the ESC is a forward-runner in developing shooting sport for the demands of future and IOC 2020 programme. Today it was the turn of Trap Mixed Teams. The teams consisted of a female and male athlete. This Trap Mixed Teams competition is now for the first time as an official event of European Championship. 14 teams participated in this event here in Lonato.Read more
06 July 2016The names of the second Trap day: D Ambrosio and Fabbrizi
The second day woke up nearly as windy as the first one. As we all know the wind makes the competition more exciting. Other coaches told that the wind does not mean anything while it is so mild, but the former champion “Charlie” had another opinion.Read more
05 July 2016Zuzana Rehak Stefecekova – Amazing return to top after delivering a baby in April
Couple of hours after the opening ceremony the wind arose. It was so rough in the city that the restaurants have to put down the parasols but when entering the shooting range the wind had calmed down. Any way it blew quite well. After the first 25 clays series the wind has gone and the sun shined from nearly clear sky.Read more
04 July 2016The European Shotgun Championship has been opened
After last week’s rain the weather showed its best side, sunshine and mild wind, +30 C in a shadow. It was a real Italian summer afternoon when the Opening Ceremony of the European Shotgun Championship started. It’s the 10th time in the history of the European shooting when Italy is hosting the continental Championship in shotgun.Read more
18 June 2016Tears before and after the finals
The last competition at the European Championship was 50m Rifle 3 positions. The 3 positions are also called King or Queen Event of the Rifle shooting. The hardest may be the 300m meter competitions. But yesterday women junior competed in 50m Rifle. As I wrote in the earlier article, the weather wasn´t the best, but it is one of the most interesting issues in a shooting sport that you have to concentrate, get along with the wind and shoot well and sharp. And, of course, when shooting 3 positions, you have to handle all the three: kneeling, prone and standing.Read more
17 June 2016Final Day: it’s raining cats and dogs!
Mänikku woke up in the rain and wind, but it didn’t seem to influence the minds of athletes and coached when they walked to the shooting centre. They sighed cheerfully good mooning and continued to their firing points.Read more
16 June 2016The fourth Competition Day showed all kind of tears!
It was turn of the 25m Pistol Women Junior day. Yesterday Women Juniors competed the Precision Stage and today they had the Rapid Stage and Finals. The morning looked grey. The heavy rain of yesterday had stopped. The day was full of tears – some because of happiness, some because of disappointment. After the Rapid stage Bulgarian Miroslava Mincheva had shot the best qualification result 584 – strong result by 16 years old Miroslava! French Mathlide Lamolle was the second (579), Russian Margarita Lomova scored 577 on the third position. Athletes qualified to finals were Anna Dedova (CZE), Michelle Skeries (GER), Agate Rasmane (LAT), Elif Kirklar (TUR) and Sophie Polo (FRA).Read more
