Romanian Laura Coman renew her European Championship

29 February 2020 — Views: 652

In Rifle shooting it was seen very high quality performances already in Qualification. First Jenny Stene from Norway made a new Qualification European record (623.3) and little later Peter Sidi showed his skill and made a real high quality performance by shooting 632.5. Today’s shooting was only one point less than his World record (633.5) made in 2013.

Romanian was the first athlete who could renew her title in this championship when we consider the Osijeck 2019 Championship. She had a tight match with Russian Anastasia Galashina and Serbian Andrea Arsovic. These two athletes were in the end nearly all the time breathing behind her the difference was only between 0.1-1.0. Coman could climb up to the lead after 10 first shots and kept it into the end. Before the two last shots Coman’s lead biggest 1.0 against Galashina who just passed Arsovic.

Galashina made splendid two last shots 10.8 and 10.7 when Coman hit 10.5 and 10.1, but the difference was enough 0.1 points. Coman’s victory result was 251.2. Silver to Anastasia Galashina (RUS-251.1) and bronze to Serbian Andrea Arsovic (228.9). And the destiny of the qualification winner came true again – Jenny Stene was 8th in this final.

The Olympic quotas won Russian Anastasiia Galashina and Serbian Andrea Arsovic.

The streaming schedule can be found here.

Results can be found here.

Photos can be found here.

Risto Aarrekivi

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