49th WMC Shooting – Doha (QAT) – Competition Day 5 & 6 & Closing Ceremony
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DOHA (QAT) – The last two days of competition of the 49th WMC Shooting took place on November 18 and 19 in the Losail Shooting Sports Complex in Doha (QAT) after 6 days of high-level competition.
On November 18, Qatar won two more medals at the 49th CISM World Military Shooting Championship in the 25m Military Rapid Fire Pistol Men Team Event and in the Skeet Women Team Event. The Qatari shooters Oleg Engachev, Ivan Bidniak and Konstantin Maltsev finished with a score of 1737 and grabbed the silver medal while the Chinese team composed by Zheng Gao, Zhenxiang Xie and Yongde Jin won the gold medal with a total score of 1755-62x. Russia (Klimov, Kalyuzhnayy & Guryanov) took the bronze medal (1730-51x). In the women’s competition, the Qatari trio of Sarah Mohamed, Hajar Mohamed and Reem al-Sharshani, who previously won the skeet event at the Asian Shotgun Championship in Abu Dhabi, enabled the host country to take the bronze medal with a total score of 200. Russia (Belikova, Krakhmaleva & Meleshchenko) realized a massive performance (206) to win the gold medal and even broke the CISM World Record at the same time. China (Zhang, Che & Zhou – 204) finished on the second step of the podium.
In the other events of the day, Russia went on dominating the women’s skeet individual by winning two medals. After winning the gold medal in the skeet team event, Marina Belikova managed to take the first place of the skeet individual event by defeating Simona Scocchetti (ITA) 13-12. Her teammate Anastasiia Krakhmaleva was awarded the bronze medal as she won her 3rd place game again the German shooter Christine Wenzel. In the same time, the Russian gold medalist Marina Belikova set a new CISM Record in the Skeet Women Event by shooting 72 targets (the previous record was set in Korea 2015 with 70 targets).