After hitting 75 targets in the qualifications - setting a new World Record - the home athletes secured the Gold with 99 hits. Three months before the Games, she's the favourite, and could write a new page of the Olympic history.
The first Shotgun World Cup of the season will start on the 23rd of March in Tucson, Arizona, where more than 250 shooters will participate in one of the last international shotgun matches before the Olympic Games.
China’s Rifle shooter Zhu Qinan and Ukraine’s Pistol shooter Olena Kostevych – two 2004 Olympic Champions - have been elected “2011 Shooters of the Year” by a panel of international sport press representatives and by the members of the ISSF Athletes and the Coaches Committees.
Over 400 million TV viewers worldwide were reached by 2011 ISSF Shooting competition footage. “Encouraged to continue on this path.” ISSF Vice President Gary Anderson said.