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ITALY GOLD FOR BURTON
Abbey Burton has won Gold in the Trap Women in Lonato.
Great Britain's Burton, and Spain's Fatima Galvez, fought for the Gold medal from the first to the last shot, in a breathtaking neck and neck race for the highest step of the World Cup podium in Italy.
Missing her 22st final target, Galvez gave a chance to Burton, who took the golden opportunity, hitting the clay and tieing her in the lead. But then Burton missed her 24rd clay, going back in second. At that point, the Galvez did not cope with the pressure, and missed her 25th target, so that the two shooters finished tied with a total score of 91 hits.
It was then a shoot-off – a sudden-death tie breaker – to determinate the Gold medal, which went to Abbey Burton who outscored her opponent 2 to 1 hits, securing her first ever ISSF World Cup Gold medal.
Abbey Burton had never made it to an ISSF World Cup medal match, before. Today, the 25-year old British athlete shattered 70 targets during the qualifications, securing a spot in the final, to close the match in the lead with a total score of 91+2 targtes after the final and the shoot-off.
"This was my first senior final, but I was not too stressed. I know Fatima, and I had met her before in a shoot-off when we were shooting Junior events." Burton said right after the final.
"The Great Britain's Olympic Team will be announced this evening. I did not finish in the best way the London's pre-Olympic World Cup, because of the wind, but I felt great here." The British winner concluded.
Rifle Team for ISSF World Cup, Milan
The following team has been selected for the Rifle events for the ISSF World Cup in Milan, 13-21 May:
| 10m Air Rifle Men: | Mike Bamsey, Kenny Parr |
| 50m Rifle Prone Men: | Dave Caughey, Kenny Parr, James Paterson, Matthew Hall (MQS), Mark Szymankiewicz (MQS) |
| 50m Rifle Three Positions Men: | Mike Bamsey, Kenny Parr, James Paterson, Mark Szymankiewicz (MQS) |
| 10m Air Rifle Women: | Sian Corish |
| 50m Rifle Three Positions Women: | Sian Corish |
| Coaches: | Sinclair Bruce, Ken Parr |
Wilson Smashes World Record In Tucson
Peter Wilson has won the ISSF Shotgun World Cup in Arizona - and smashed a World Record in the process.
British Shooting's Olympic hopeful, Wilson, 25, won the Double Trap Men's final with a new World Record score of 198 hits out of 200 targets.
The score easily beat the previous record of 196 hits set by China's Olympian Hu Binyuan in 2009.
Wilson said: "This is pretty special, I'm really looking forward to the Olympics in London and the home environment, it's an exciting prospect.
"I feel oddly relaxed considering the feat I've just achieved. I've had great support from the team around me and through the lottery funded World Class Programme at British Shooting".
Wilson was in unbeatable form in Tucson, scoring the highest possible qualification score of 148 hits – equaling a World Record set by Russia's Fokeey at last year's World Cup in Chile.
Wilson then went on to shoot the perfect round in the medal match – shooting 50 hits out of 50 targets.
Programme Manager for the Olympic Performance Group, Tim Newenham, said: "Peter's performance in Arizona was outstanding.
"It's the culmination of thousands of hours of training, both physical and mental and the whole team can be very proud to have played a part in supporting Peter's work towards his world record.
"It's a great position to be going into the London Olympic Games, where home crowd support for British shooters can play such an important role in boosting their performances.
"We've worked closely with UK Sport to ensure our World Class Programme is highly effective and also more recently with the British Olympic Association to help ensure our Olympic Games planning is efficient and we are grateful to both organisations for their expertise".
Malta's Chetcuti and USA's Joshua Richmond finished on the podium in second and third place.
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