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DAY 1

SATURDAY, AUG 06 2016 EVENT INFORMATION AT 10:30 FINALS WORLD RANKING #1: Andrea ARSOVIC (SRB) TITLE DEFENDER: (CHN) WORLD RECORD: 422.9 points scored by CHEN Dongqi (CHN) on 12/03/2014 FINALS WORLD RECORD: 211.0 points scored by YI Siling (CHN) on 03/07/2014 OLYMPIC RECORD: ISSF Rule Change - not established yet FINALS OLYMPIC RECORD: ISSF Rule Change - not established yet

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ust as in four years ago, the participations occurred during the 2016 ISSF TOP FAVORITE 10m Air Women event will pres- World Cup Series: in (THA), where ent the first Gold medal of the Rio she finished at the top the podium, and in Rio J2016 , following a long last- de Janeiro (BRA), where she placed 6th. ing tradition which was also upheld in Lon- A tangible threat to Yi’s ambitions will don, where the People’s Republic of ’s come in the shape of Serbia’s ANDREA YI SILING (27) received the first Gold medal ARSOVIC (27), current World Ranking leader of the Games. and winner of the World Cup Gold in the 10m Despite not having officially announced Air Rifle Women event in (GER) last their Olympic selection yet, the Chinese na- June. tional team will probably be headlined by Yi Arsovic is going to lead a group of herself, current number 3 in the World Rank- contenders which will probably include Yi’s ing in this event and holder of the Finals teammate SHI MENGYAO (18), who made her World Record with 211.0 points. The Chinese international debut this year, Austria’s rising athlete has 5 World Cup Gold medals and 2 star OLIVIA HOFMANN (23), ranked 7th in the World Cup Final trophies she has earned in world, and Iran’s NAJMEH KHEDMATI, (20), the current Olympic cycle, having accrued who obtained the Olympic quota place at last them throughout 15 starts, and entering year’s World Cup stage in Gabala (AZE). YI Siling (CHN) the final phase 13 times. Two of those final

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NAME (NOC) WORLD RANK OLYMPIC GAMES WCH -WC-WCF 2013 – 2016 MEDALS BEST RESULTS AUG 1 2016 Participation Starts Finals Wins Total Qualification Finals YI Siling (CHN) 3 1 15 13 7 8 422,5 211,0 (CHN) 104 2 8 7 2 6 421,0 210,0 ARSOVIC Andrea (SRB) 1 1 18 12 2 5 419,9 208,5 AHMADI Elaheh (IRI) 28 1 8 3 2 2 419,3 207,8 CHANG Jing (CHN) 5 4 1 3 419,1 209,1 PEJCIC Snjezana (CRO) 16 2 15 5 1 2 420,8 209,1 ZUBLASING Petra (ITA) 20 1 12 4 1 2 418,8 207,1 UNGERANK Lisa (AUT) 195 8 3 1 2 418,3 208,5 DU Bei (CHN) 5 3 3 1 2 417,5 208,6 (CHN) 6 3 4 1 1 1 418,6 208,3 VELOSO Martina Lindsay (SIN) 27 10 1 1 1 416,9 208,7 ANDUSIC MAKSIMOVIC Ivana (SRB) 13 1 18 9 4 419,9 209,2 ZHANG Binbin (CHN) 15 12 8 2 421,0 207,4 SHI Mengyao (CHN) 2 2 2 2 418,7 208,3 CHANDELA Apurvi (IND) 30 16 2 2 418,4 206,9 CHEN Dongqi (CHN) 19 5 3 1 422,9 184,3 PAUL Ayonika (IND) 25 14 4 1 420,8 205,9 HOFMANN Olivia (AUT) 7 11 3 1 420,5 205,4 VDOVINA Daria (RUS) 10 1 4 3 1 420,1 208,0 KHEDMATI Najmeh (IRI) 18 6 3 1 419,6 207,9 PFEILSCHIFTER Sonja (GER) 50 5 6 5 1 419,6 185,9 GSCHWANDTNER Selina (GER) 9 6 1 1 419,4 206,8 ZUMAYA FLORES Goretti A. (MEX) 4 5 2 1 419,1 207,9 SER Xiang Wei Jasmine (SIN) 17 1 12 2 1 418,8 208,1 ZHUKOVA Anna (RUS) 29 9 5 1 418,5 186,0 NIELSEN Stine (DEN) 11 1 14 6 1 418,5 184,5 GUSTIN Valentina (CRO) 42 5 2 1 417,5 207,3 EMMONS Katerina (CZE) 141 3 2 1 1 417,2 206,6 RACHL Silvia (GER) 3 2 1 417,0 206,0 PARK Hae Mi (KOR) 12 3 1 1 416,4 185,1 EVESQUE Emilie (FRA) 1 3 1 1 416,1 185,0

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SATURDAY, AUG 06 2016 EVENT INFORMATION AT 15:30 FINALS WORLD RANKING #1: Felipe Almeida WU (BRA) TITLE DEFENDER: JIN Jongoh (KOR) WORLD RECORD: 594 points scored by JIN Jongoh (KOR) on 12/04/2009 FINALS WORLD RECORD: 206.0 points scored by JIN Jongoh (KOR) on 12/04/2015 OLYMPIC RECORD: 591 points scored by Mikhail NESTRUEV (RUS) on 14/08/2004 FINALS OLYMPIC RECORD: ISSF Rule Change - not established yet

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ccording to the added results of the Finals World Record. A résumé that plac- TOP FAVORITE the last four years, The Republic of es him head-to-head with Wu on the road to Korea’s JIN JONGOH (36) would be the Olympic champion title. Athe uncontested favorite of the 10m Air Pis- Two-time Olympian OLEH OMELCHUK tol Men event, as he obtained 6 Gold medals (33) of is also on the shortlist for out of 10 finals participations in World Cups, the 10m Air Pistol Men title in Rio, alongside World Cup Finals and World Championships. ’s PABLO CARRERA (29) with 2 victories At the moment, however, Jin doesn’t in this event in the current Olympic cycle, and stand at the top of the World Ranking in this Vietnam’s HOANG XUAN VINH (41), whose event, as the 1st place belongs to Brazil’s stats follow a similar path as the triumphs in FELIPE ALMEIDA WU (24), who earned two Carrera’s career: 12 starts, 6 final matches, 4 1st places during the 2016 World Cup Series: podiums and 2 Gold medals. in Bangkok (THA) and in (AZE). Not to mention that he will fight for the Olympic Gold on his home turf, with the support of a whole country behind him. Still, Jin Jongoh is the reigning Olympic and World Champion in this event, and he Felipe Almeida Wu (BRA), Jin Jongoh (KOR) also holds both the World Record as well as

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NAME (NOC) WORLD RANK OLYMPIC GAMES WCH -WC-WCF 2013 – 2016 MEDALS BEST RESULTS AUG 1 2016 Participation Starts Finals Wins Total Qualification Finals JIN Jongoh (KOR) 4 3 11 10 6 7 588 206,0 CARRERA Pablo (ESP) 5 1 12 6 2 4 587 201,3 HOANG Xuan Vinh (VIE) 6 1 12 6 2 4 585 202,8 WU Felipe Almeida (BRA) 1 16 3 2 2 582 201,9 COSTA Joao (POR) 15 4 13 5 1 4 587 201,5 RAI Jitu (IND) 3 18 8 1 4 585 200,8 OMELCHUK Oleh (UKR) 2 2 14 7 1 3 588 201,9 KIM Cheongyong (KOR) 34 5 2 1 2 587 202,5 AMORE Andrea (ITA) 5 2 1 2 584 200,8 ISAKOV Vladimir (RUS) 31 4 10 4 1 2 583 200,7 CHERVYAKOVSKIY Sergey (RUS) 44 11 5 1 2 582 202,3 BROWN Will (USA) 7 14 6 1 2 581 202,1 WANG Zhiwei (CHN) 45 1 12 4 2 591 201,9 DIKEC Yusuf (TUR) 20 2 12 4 2 591 200,3 GONTCHAROV Vladimir (RUS) 29 1 7 4 2 586 181,3 MATSUDA Tomoyuki (JPN) 17 2 18 5 2 582 200,4 TUZINSKY Juraj (SVK) 13 1 10 3 2 582 180,1 (CHN) 10 2 11 8 1 589 202,3 PU Qifeng (CHN) 11 12 6 1 587 180,9 MIKEC Damir (SRB) 8 2 15 1 1 586 201,8 KOROSTYLOV Pavlo (UKR) 37 10 2 1 585 203,4 KELES Ismail (TUR) 9 1 10 3 1 585 201,1 ZLATIC Andrija (SRB) 136 2 12 2 1 585 199,6 NANJAPPA Prakash (IND) 55 13 3 1 584 180,2 NAUNG Ye Tun (MYA) 103 3 1 1 583 201,0 ISSACHENKO Vladimir (KAZ) 22 1 14 2 1 582 201,3 GOURIANOV Anton (RUS) 82 4 1 1 581 198,6 SUN Yang (CHN) 3 1 1 581 197,5 KOULAKOV Denis (RUS) 72 1 5 2 1 581 180,6

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DAY TWO

SUNDAY, AUG 07 2016 EVENT INFORMATION AT 11:00 FINALS WORLD RANKING #1: Olena KOSTEVYCH (UKR) TITLE DEFENDER: GUO Wenjun (CHN) WORLD RECORD: 393 points scored by Svetlana SMIRNOVA (RUS) on 23/05/1998 FINALS WORLD RECORD: 203.8 points scored by Heena SIDHU (IND) on 10/11/2013 OLYMPIC RECORD: 391 points scored by PADERINA Natalia (RUS) on 10/08/2008 FINALS OLYMPIC RECORD: ISSF Rule Change - not established yet

10M AIR PISTOL WOMEN

he 10m Air Pistol Women competi- 9th in the world at the moment, since her TOP FAVORITE tion is among the most uncertain last Gold medal dates back to May 2015 in events of the Olympic Shooting pro- Munich (GER). Tgram for Rio 2016, and its perfectly suited for On the other hand, the Ukraine’s OLENA an unexpected finale. KOSTEVYCH (31) is surely going through a Serbian athlete ZORANA ARUNOVIC (29), great period, as she obtained 2 of the last 3 in fact, has been the most successful shooter World Cup Gold medals in dispute, also jump- in this event during the Olympic cycle with ing the the top of World Ranking – a spot 3 Gold medals and 9 finals participations, where she can keep an eye-liner curent Air but she currently sits in 20th position of the Pistol Olympic Champion, People’s Republic World Ranking as she missed the Air Pistol of China’s GUO WENJUN, 32, who started 14 finals at each of her three World Cup partici- times in this event during the last four years, pations, placing 10th or below. entering the finals 10 times and winning Bulgaria’s ANTOANETA BONEVA (30) also 2 Golds. earned 3 Gold medals during the last four years, winning, in addition, the Silver at the Olympic test event in (BRA) and obtaining a total of 5 medals in the cur- Zorana Arunovic (SRB) rent Olympic cycle. However, she only ranks

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NAME (NOC) WORLD RANK OLYMPIC GAMES WCH -WC-WCF 2013 – 2016 MEDALS BEST RESULTS AUG 1 2016 Participation Starts Finals Wins Total Qualification Finals ARUNOVIC Zorana (SRB) 20 1 18 9 3 8 389 202,4 BONEVA Antoaneta (BUL) 9 1 14 7 3 5 388 203,6 ZAVALA VAZQUEZ Alejandra (MEX) 8 1 17 7 2 4 388 201,5 KOSTEVYCH Olena (UKR) 1 3 13 10 2 3 390 202,9 GUO Wenjun (CHN) 3 2 14 10 2 2 389 200,3 KIM Jangmi (KOR) 21 1 11 5 1 3 388 199,6 YASKEVICH Liubov (RUS) 43 1 8 3 1 3 387 198,3 SIDHU Heena (IND) 27 1 16 4 1 2 389 203,8 GOBERVILLE Celine (FRA) 16 1 13 6 1 2 388 201,5 VELICKOVIC Bobana (SRB) 2 1 16 4 1 2 388 199,7 CHAIKA Viktoria (BLR) 13 4 10 5 1 2 388 199,6 JUNG Jeehae (KOR) 26 4 2 1 1 384 201,3 REN Jie (CHN) 3 1 1 1 1 382 201,8 KORAKAKI Anna (GRE) 4 8 4 3 390 201,0 TIEN Chia Chen (TPE) 7 1 10 5 3 387 200,3 ZHANG Mengxue (CHN) 5 7 4 3 387 197,7 BRES Klaudia (POL) 34 9 2 2 389 200,6 OTRYAD Gundegmaa (MGL) 17 5 11 4 1 392 197,3 KOUSNETSOVA Olga (RUS) 29 3 8 2 1 390 178,9 KORSHUNOVA Ekaterina (RUS) 84 8 2 1 388 200,7 CHEAH Lee Yean Joseline (MAS) 89 8 1 1 388 197,8 DORJSUREN Munkhbayar (GER) 136 6 11 4 1 388 175,1 FRANQUET Sonia (ESP) 6 2 9 5 1 387 199,1 WU Chia Ying (TPE) 12 6 3 1 387 198,3 LIN Yuemei (CHN) 21 6 2 1 385 197,7 KWAK Junghye (KOR) 54 6 2 1 385 175,0 TEO Shun Xie (SIN) 15 8 1 1 384 178,0 SUN Qi (CHN) 2 1 1 382 199,6

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SUNDAY, AUG 07 2016 EVENT INFORMATION AT 15:00 FINALS WORLD RANKING #1: Ray BASSIL (LIB) TITLE DEFENDER: Jessica ROSSI (ITA) WORLD RECORD: 75 targets scored by Jessica ROSSI (ITA) on 04/08/2012 FINALS WORLD RECORD: no Finals World Record will be registered OLYMPIC RECORD: 75 targets scored by Jessica ROSSI (ITA) on 04/08/2012 FINALS OLYMPIC RECORD: no Finals Olympic Record will be registered

TRAP WOMEN

our years after shaking the Shooting An attempt to earn the Olympic Gold medal TOP FAVORITE Sport world, ’s reigning Olym- will also be the goal of the reigning ISSF World pic Champion JESSICA ROSSI (24) Champion, Spain’s FATIMA GALVEZ (29) Fdoesn’t seems to be among the top favorites ranked 6th in the world, and of San Marino’s for the Trap Women Gold medal in Rio. ALESSANDRA PERILLI (28) winner of the This burden, in fact, seems more likely to be World Cup Final trophy in 2015 and three- on RAY BASSIL’s shoulders, since the Leba- times Trap Women medalist during the last nese is currently sitting at the top of the World four years. Ranking after placing three-times on the podi- um during this year’s ISSF World Cup Series. Bassil (27), whose first career Gold medal arrived in (CYP) last March, is surely going to face a group of resolute shooters in Rio, where Rossi won’t give her title up so easily, and where ’s SATU MAKELA- NUMMELA (45) will try to reach for another prize-winning performance after the 20 starts she’s accumulated since 2013, with 6 semifi- Ray Bassil (LIB) nals participations and 3 Gold medals.

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NAME (NOC) WORLD RANK OLYMPIC GAMES WCH -WC-WCF 2013 – 2016 MEDALS BEST RESULTS AUG 1 2016 Participation Starts Finals Wins Total Quali Semi Finals REHAK STEFECEKOVA Zuzana (SVK) 24 2 15 9 3 6 74 15 15 MAKELA-NUMMELA Satu (FIN) 2 2 20 6 3 3 72 14 14 SCANLAN Laetisha (AUS) 7 16 8 2 3 73 15 14 STANCO Silvana (ITA) 17 13 3 2 3 72 15 14 GALVEZ Fatima (ESP) 6 1 14 7 1 6 74 15 13 COGDELL Corey (USA) 4 2 12 5 1 4 75 13 13 BASSIL Ray (LIB) 1 1 10 4 1 3 74 15 13 PERILLI Alessandra (SMR) 12 1 12 5 1 3 74 14 14 ROSSI Jessica (ITA) 29 1 16 7 1 3 73 14 14 NAKAYAMA Yukie (JPN) 27 3 13 3 1 2 74 15 14 LIN Yi Chun (TPE) 8 3 9 2 1 2 73 14 12 KERWOOD Charlotte (GBR) 48 2 11 2 1 1 74 14 11 BURCH Victoria Rose (USA) 2 1 1 1 74 14 15 QUOOSS Katrin (GER) 87 6 1 1 1 73 15 13 COX Emma Elizabeth (AUS) 5 5 2 1 1 73 13 13 PSHENICHNIKOVA Liudmila (RUS) 9 2 1 1 71 13 12 SKINNER Catherine (AUS) 13 14 6 5 72 14 13 SCHEIBL Sonja (GER) 3 1 12 3 3 71 13 11 BEAMAN Janessa Jo (USA) 65 7 2 2 73 15 14 TKACH Elena (RUS) 9 2 17 5 2 73 13 14 BARSUK Tatiana (RUS) 22 15 4 2 73 13 12 BECKMANN Jana (GER) 31 16 4 1 73 14 12 ZHU Jingyu (CHN) 14 9 3 1 73 13 12 WANG Yiwen (CHN) 78 6 1 1 73 13 12 CORMENIER Carole (FRA) 10 14 4 1 73 10 13 ROONEY Natalie (NZL) 19 13 5 1 72 13 13 IEZZI Alessia (ITA) 11 2 1 1 72 13 14 CHAE Hye Gyong (PRK) 96 3 1 1 71 11 13 PAK Yong Hui (PRK) 23 1 4 1 1 70 11 12 WIXEY Sarah (GBR) 43 1 5 1 1 68 11 12

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DAY THREE

MONDAY, AUG 08 2016 EVENT INFORMATION AT 12:00 FINALS WORLD RANKING #1: CAO Yifei (CHN) TITLE DEFENDER: Alin George MOLDOVEANU (ROU) WORLD RECORD: 633.5 points scored by Peter SIDI (HUN) on 25/05/2013 FINALS WORLD RECORD: 210.6 points scored by QIAN Xuechao (CHN) on 21/05/2016 OLYMPIC RECORD: ISSF Rule Change - not established yet FINALS OLYMPIC RECORD: ISSF Rule Change - not established yet

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espite not having officially declared winners in the 10m Air Rifle Men event at the TOP FAVORITE what athlete will compete in which Olympics. event at the 2016 Olympic Games, Another strong candidate for the podium is Din the 10m Air Rifle Men event, the People’s Hungarian veteran shooter (37), PETER SIDI Republic of China will surely be represented who matched Yang’s 14 finals participation in by YANG HAORAN (20), 2014 Youth Olympic the last four years, obtaining 6 total medals. Champion in this very event. Alongside him, Yang’s probable team- In 14 participations between World Cups, mate in Rio will be CAO YIFEI (28), current World Cup Finals and the 2014 World Cham- leader of the World Ranking and three-time pionship in Granada (ESP), Yang always en- Silver medalist during the 2016 ISSF World tered the final phase of the event, collect- Cup Series. ing the impressive amount of 7 Gold medals throughout 10 total podiums. Actually, during the current season, Yang only earned the Gold at the first World Cup stage in Bangkok (THA), placing 5th in Rio de Janeiro (BRA) and 7th in Munich (GER), however, these facts are not enough to not Yang Haoran (CHN) exclude him the from the list of possible Gold

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NAME (NOC) WORLD RANK OLYMPIC GAMES WCH -WC-WCF 2013 – 2016 MEDALS BEST RESULTS AUG 1 2016 Participation Starts Finals Wins Total Qualification Final YANG Haoran (CHN) 2 14 14 7 10 632,7 210,5 LOUGINETS Nazar (RUS) 27 12 7 3 4 632,7 209,4 SIDI Peter (HUN) 11 4 20 14 2 6 633,5 208,2 ZHU Qinan (CHN) 19 3 10 8 2 4 630,1 207,6 CAO Yifei (CHN) 1 1 13 8 1 4 630,7 208,9 STEFANOVIC Milutin (SRB) 14 13 5 1 4 627,6 209,7 WANG Tao (CHN) 1 5 5 1 3 627,6 206,8 MASLENNIKOV Vladimir (RUS) 5 4 4 1 2 631,1 207,0 QIAN Xuechao (CHN) 4 2 1 1 1 627,8 210,6 NEPEJCHAL Filip (CZE) 3 2 1 1 1 627,7 206,8 RICHTER Sergey (ISR) 9 1 18 6 4 628,7 207,3 CAMPRIANI Niccolo (ITA) 12 2 12 11 3 631,2 206,4 TSARKOV Oleh (UKR) 22 10 2 2 631,4 208,6 KRUGLOV Sergey (RUS) 47 1 8 5 1 631,5 205,1 PENI Istvan (HUN) 10 11 1 1 630,8 205,4 GORSA Petar (CRO) 21 2 10 1 1 630,0 186,5 KULISH Serhiy (UKR) 7 1 10 4 1 629,9 186,8 BUBNOVICH Vitali (BLR) 34 3 11 4 1 629,7 206,6 KIM Sang Do (KOR) 54 7 6 1 629,3 206,9 BAGHERI Hossein (IRI) 6 9 2 1 629,3 206,2 CHARHEIKA Illia (BLR) 24 1 11 5 1 628,1 206,4 KAMENSKIY Sergey (RUS) 18 5 2 1 627,8 207,2 JUSTUS Julian (GER) 8 1 13 4 1 627,6 185,4 RIZOV Anton (BUL) 26 1 9 2 1 626,7 205,6 CHRISTENSON Dempster (USA) 84 9 1 1 623,7 206,4

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MONDAY, AUG 08 2016 EVENT INFORMATION AT 15:00 FINALS WORLD RANKING #1: Alberto FERNANDEZ (ESP) TITLE DEFENDER: Giovanni CERNOGORAZ (CRO) WORLD RECORD: 125 targets scored by (ITA) on 01/04/1994 FINALS WORLD RECORD: no Finals World Record will be registered OLYMPIC RECORD: 125 targets scored by Michael DIAMOND (AUS) on 06/08/2012 FINALS OLYMPIC RECORD: no Finals Olympic Record will be registered

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t the London 2012 Olympic Games, (ESP) and finally in Lonato (ITA).During the TOP FAVORITE the Trap Men event delivered its 2016 ISSF World Cup Series, however, Spain’s Gold medal at the end of a thrilling ALBERTO FERNANDEZ (33) strongly entered Ashoot-off between Italy’s in the debate for the Olympic title, obtaining MASSIMO FABBRIZI (38) and ’s GIOVANNI CERNOGORAZ consecutive Gold medals in Nicosia (CYP) (33), who eventually ended up on the highest and Rio de Janeiro (BRA) and rocketing to the step of the podium and will defend his title top of the ranking. in Rio. Despite the lack of podiums during this On August 8th, it is logical to expect year’s World Cup, both Italy’s GIOVANNI nothing less, as many shooters are eligible PELLIELO (46) and ’s DAVID for the Olympic Gold medal according to the KOSTELECKY (41) will be among the dark latest results. horses of the Trap Men event, mostly thanks Slovakia’s Reigning ISSF World Champi- to their experience. Rio 2016, in fact, will mark on, ERIK VARGA (40), accumulated 13 starts Pellielo’s 7th and Kostelecky’s 5th Olympic in this event since 2013, reaching the semifi- participation. nals 8 times and winning 4 Golds among 6 total medals. Furthermore, 2 of those Golds arrived back-to-back, at the ISSF World Cham- Erik Varga (SVK ) pionship in 2014, then the 2015 in Granada

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NAME (NOC) WORLD RANK OLYMPIC GAMES WCH -WC-WCF 2013 – 2016 MEDALS BEST RESULTS AUG 1 2016 Participation Starts Finals Wins Total Quali Semi Finals VARGA Erik (SVK) 3 2 13 8 4 6 124 15 14 FERNANDEZ Alberto (ESP) 1 2 15 8 3 5 124 15 15 FABBRIZI Massimo (ITA) 30 1 12 7 2 5 124 15 15 KOSTELECKY David (CZE) 18 4 16 4 2 2 124 15 14 LIPTAK Jiri (CZE) 2 1 17 5 2 2 124 14 15 ALIPOV Alexey (RUS) 6 4 19 11 1 8 124 15 15 PELLIELO Giovanni (ITA) 14 6 13 9 1 6 125 15 15 CERNOGORAZ Giovanni (CRO) 4 1 14 4 1 3 123 14 14 SANDHU Manavjit Singh (IND) 35 3 18 4 1 2 124 15 14 BAILON Antonio (ESP) 11 9 2 1 2 124 15 15 GRAZINI Valerio (ITA) 47 12 2 1 2 123 14 14 CLAMENS Stephane (FRA) 4 6 1 1 1 124 13 13 HEADING Aaron (GBR) 45 1 13 3 1 1 122 14 13 BERTI Gian Marco (SMR) 5 1 7 1 1 1 121 14 14 GLASNOVIC Josip (CRO) 13 1 14 4 3 124 15 15 DIAMOND Michael (AUS) 50 6 15 5 2 124 15 12 ALDEEHANI Fehaid (KUW) 133 5 13 2 2 124 14 15 RESCA Daniele (ITA) 7 10 6 2 124 13 15 BROL CARDENAS Jean P. (GUA) 12 1 12 2 1 125 13 14 LING Edward (GBR) 22 2 9 3 1 124 14 14 TUZUN Oguzhan (TUR) 24 3 14 2 1 124 14 12 FRASCA Erminio (ITA) 43 1 5 1 1 124 14 13 GLASNOVIC Anton (CRO) 61 1 13 2 1 124 13 12 BURROWS Brian (USA) 104 8 2 1 123 15 12 SCHERHAUFER Andreas (AUT) 88 1 16 1 1 123 14 13 ILNAM Yavuz (TUR) 16 10 2 1 122 15 12 KOWALCZYK Piotr (POL) 9 11 1 1 122 13 14 MOTTET Maxime (BEL) 29 12 1 1 122 12 13 PEETERS Yannick (BEL) 8 15 1 1 121 13 12

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DAY FOUR

TUESDAY, AUG 09 2016 EVENT INFORMATION AT 15:30 FINALS WORLD RANKING #1: ZHANG Jingjing (CHN) TITLE DEFENDER: KIM Jangmi (KOR) WORLD RECORD: 594 points scored by Diana IORGOVA on 31/05/1994 FINALS WORLD RECORD: no Finals World Record will be registered OLYMPIC RECORD: 591 points scored by Jangmi KIM (KOR) on 01/08/2012 FINALS OLYMPIC RECORD: no Finals Olympic Record will be registered

25M PISTOL WOMEN

ince 2013, Chinese Pistol athlete her 6th edition of the Olympic Games, trying TOP FAVORITE ZHANG JINGJING (27) has literally to best the Silver medal she pocketed in 2008 ruled over the 25m Pistol Women in (CHN). Sevent, collecting a total of 15 medals out of 17 Otryad will land in Rio de Janeiro (BRA) starts among World Cups, World Cup Finals as the number 9 in the World Ranking, bring- and the 2014 ISSF World Championship, with ing with her the 3 Gold medals she secured 7 of them being Gold. in the 25m Pistol Women event since 2013. Despite not having yet received the of- Current Olympic Champion KIM JANGMI ficial phone call from her National Team, (23) from the Republic of Korea, and the Zhang should feel pretty confident about it, Ukraine’s OLENA KOSTEVYCH (31), London as she finished in 1st place twice during this 2012 Bronze medalist in this event, will also year’s World Cup, which automatically will be among the contenders for the Gold medal. place her as number 1 in the World Ranking while entering the Olympic Shooting Range this year. Rio 2016 will mark the Olympic debut for Zhang, while a far more experienced athlete will try to give her a hard time: Mongolia’s Zhang Jingjing (CHN) GUNDEGMAA OTRYAD (38) will participate in

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NAME (NOC) WORLD RANK OLYMPIC GAMES WCH -WC-WCF 2013 – 2016 MEDALS BEST RESULTS AUG 1 2016 Participation Starts Finals Wins Total Quali Semi Finals ZHANG Jingjing (CHN) 1 17 16 7 15 592 21 9 OTRYAD Gundegmaa (MGL) 9 5 13 7 3 7 588 21 8 KARSCH Monika (GER) 10 13 6 2 2 588 21 8 KIM Jangmi (KOR) 6 1 12 7 1 4 590 21 8 BONEVA Antoaneta (BUL) 2 1 14 11 1 4 588 18 7 DIETHELM GERBER Heidi (SUI) 7 1 18 14 1 2 590 18 8 CAO Lijia (CHN) 13 2 6 4 1 2 589 18 8 KIM Kyeongae (KOR) 1 5 3 1 2 587 16 7 YUAN Jing (CHN) 1 4 2 1 2 580 15 8 SARNOBAT Rahi (IND) 109 1 11 2 1 1 585 15 8 GROZDEVA Maria (BUL) 4 6 14 2 1 1 583 19 8 ARUNOVIC Zorana (SRB) 47 1 16 6 3 590 17 8 KOSTEVYCH Olena (UKR) 3 3 11 6 2 590 18 8 SALUKVADZE Nino (GEO) 43 7 16 6 2 586 17 7 YANGPAIBOON Naphaswan (THA) 8 1 8 4 2 584 14 7 BATSARASHKINA Vitalina (RUS) 47 3 2 1 590 20 7 DORJSUREN Munkhbayar (GER) 106 6 13 6 1 588 17 4 LIN Yuemei (CHN) 50 3 3 1 587 17 3 KORAKAKI Anna (GRE) 5 7 1 1 587 17 5 ALIPOVA Yuliya (RUS) 39 4 10 3 1 587 14 7 TOBAI SIKE Renata (HUN) 28 12 3 1 586 16 10 PRUCKSAKORN Tanyaporn (THA) 15 2 11 1 1 584 16 1 PARK Hyun Joo (KOR) 11 1 1 1 584 16 4 SEKARIC Jasna (SRB) 55 7 15 3 1 584 14 9

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DAY FIVE

WEDNESDAY, AUG 10 2016 EVENT INFORMATION AT 12:00 FINALS WORLD RANKING #1: JIN Jongoh (KOR) TITLE DEFENDER: JIN Jongoh (KOR) WORLD RECORD: 583 points scored by JIN Jongoh (KOR) on 09/09/2014 FINALS WORLD RECORD: 200.7 points scored by JIN Jongoh (KOR) on 07/07/2013 OLYMPIC RECORD: 581 points scored by Alexsander MELENTIEV (URS) on 20/07/1980 FINALS OLYMPIC RECORD: ISSF Rule Change - not established yet

50M PISTOL MEN

he 50m Pistol Men event at the Rio in this event, and he will face rivals such TOP FAVORITE 2016 Olympic Games is expected to as Japan’s TOMOYUKI MATSUDA (40), who be a pretty balanced clash between has 20 starts in the last four years with 13 Ta consistent number of shooters. final matches and 7 podiums, as well as the Indeed, during the Olympic cycle between People’s Republic of China’s WANG ZHIWEI 2013 and 2016, the 20 matches held between (28), four-time Gold medalist in the 50m Pistol the World Cup Series, World Cup Finals and Men event since 2013. World Championships, witnessed 12 different athletes reach the top of the podium, with the Republic of Korea’s JIN JONGOH (36), current leader of the World Ranking, participating in 11 finals out of 11 starts and finishing 8 times on the podium. The Korean athlete is also the current holder of the World Record in this event, having established it at the 2014 ISSF World Championship in Granada (ESP), where he obtained the World title. In Rio, Jin will Jin Jongoh (KOR) fight for his 3rd consecutive Olympic Gold

THE SUPER 25 50M PISTOL MEN

NAME (NOC) WORLD RANK OLYMPIC GAMES WCH -WC-WCF 2013 – 2016 MEDALS BEST RESULTS AUG 1 2016 Participation Starts Finals Wins Total Qualification Final WANG Zhiwei (CHN) 5 1 18 13 4 8 576 196,5 JIN Jongoh (KOR) 1 3 11 11 3 8 583 200,7 ZHANG Bowen (CHN) 7 6 4 2 4 570 192,6 ZLATIC Andrija (SRB) 98 2 13 5 2 3 567 196,7 MIKEC Damir (SRB) 19 2 17 8 2 2 571 194,0 MATSUDA Tomoyuki (JPN) 10 2 20 13 1 7 569 194,0 CARRERA Pablo (ESP) 6 1 13 7 1 3 575 193,9 RAI Jitu (IND) 3 16 8 1 3 568 193,9 MAI Jiajie (CHN) 9 10 6 1 3 567 195,1 COSTA Joao (POR) 18 4 13 5 1 2 570 194,7 OMELCHUK Oleh (UKR) 4 2 13 5 1 2 567 191,3 GOURIANOV Anton (RUS) 61 9 5 1 1 565 191,1 PANG Wei (CHN) 3 2 12 10 5 578 190,3 HOANG Xuan Vinh (VIE) 20 1 12 6 3 568 189,3 PARK Daehun (KOR) 48 6 3 2 567 191,4 ISAKOV Vladimir (RUS) 77 4 12 5 1 568 169,5 LEE Daemyung (KOR) 8 1 11 2 1 567 167,1 PU Qifeng (CHN) 76 8 2 1 564 176,2 KIM Cheongyong (KOR) 25 3 2 1 563 169,9

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DAY FIVE

WEDNESDAY, AUG 10 2016 EVENT INFORMATION AT 15:00 FINALS WORLD RANKING #1: James WILLETT (AUS) – retired from shooting TITLE DEFENDER: Peter Robert Russell WILSON (GBR) WORLD RECORD: 148 targets scored by Tim KNEALE (GBR) on 09/06/2014 FINALS WORLD RECORD: no Finals World Record will be registered OLYMPIC RECORD: ISSF Rule Change - not established yet FINALS OLYMPIC RECORD: no Finals Olympic Record will be registered

DOUBLE TRAP MEN

hen Great Britain’s Peter Robert and 1 Bronze. The United States’ JOSHUA TOP FAVORITE Russell Wilson retired from com- RICHMOND (30) also is a candidate for an petitive Shooting in 2014, he left Olympic Gold, placing 1st at the San Marino Wa vacancy on the Olympic throne of the Dou- (SMR) World Cup stage and raising his medal ble Trap Men, the event he ruled over at the count during the Olympic cycle to 4 while London 2012 Olympic Games. also entering the list of top 10 in the World A title that is up for grabs among a large Ranking alongside his teammate WALTON number of athletes, the leader of which is ELLER (34). Russia’s VASILY MOSIN (44), who accumu- lated 19 starts in the last four years, with 2 victories in the ISSF World Cup, 1 World Cup Final title and 1 ISSF World Championship Gold medal obtained in Lonato (ITA) last year. The 2016 ISSF World Cup, however, high- lighted some other relevant contenders such as ’s JAMES WILLETT (20). Willet only started shooting Double Trap two years ago, but his talent has allowed him to enter the Vasily Mosin (RUS) semifinals 5 out of 8 times, collecting 1 Gold

THE SUPER 25 DOUBLE TRAP MEN

NAME (NOC) WORLD RANK OLYMPIC GAMES WCH -WC-WCF 2013 – 2016 MEDALS BEST RESULTS AUG 1 2016 Participation Starts Finals Wins Total Quali Semi Finals MOSIN Vasily (RUS) 6 3 19 9 4 8 147 30 30 HOLGUIN Jeffrey (USA) 15 1 11 6 3 5 147 29 29 ELLER Walton (USA) 9 4 17 9 2 5 146 29 30 RICHMOND Joshua (USA) 4 1 11 6 2 4 143 30 30 DI SPIGNO Daniele (ITA) 33 4 15 5 2 2 142 29 30 GASPARINI Davide (ITA) 24 13 5 1 4 143 28 29 FOKEEV Vitaly (RUS) 29 3 16 5 1 3 146 29 29 SCOTT Steven (GBR) 10 1 16 5 1 3 144 30 29 BARILLA Antonino (ITA) 18 13 7 1 2 146 30 29 WILLETT James (AUS) 1 8 5 1 2 142 29 28 OLEJNIK Hubert Andrzej (SVK) 36 1 14 3 1 1 146 29 29 CHETCUTI William (MLT) 3 3 13 4 1 1 145 29 28 WILSON Peter Robert R. (GBR) 1 1 1 1 1 141 29 30 CHIANESE Alessandro (ITA) 2 7 5 1 1 140 28 28 HU Binyuan (CHN) 26 3 14 9 4 146 30 29 PAN Qiang (CHN) 7 2 11 4 4 143 29 30 WANG Hao (CHN) 68 9 5 3 146 29 30 INNOCENTI Marco (ITA) 8 2 9 3 2 143 30 29 KNEALE Tim (GBR) 17 1 14 3 1 148 29 27 LOEW Andreas (GER) 5 14 4 1 145 30 29 BROL Enrique (GUA) 12 11 2 1 144 29 27 MOHD Asab (IND) 19 2 19 3 1 143 29 30 HALDEMAN Derek (USA) 47 10 3 1 141 29 28 BERNASCONI Emanuele (ITA) 4 1 1 141 29 28 PINERO Sergio (DOM) 68 2 7 1 1 140 28 28 LEYBO Mikhail (RUS) 2 7 2 1 139 28 28 ALAFASI Ahmad (KUW) 27 9 1 1 139 28 25 MO Junjie (CHN) 13 8 1 1 139 28 28 RUPERT Ian (USA) 5 1 1 138 28 28

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DAY SIX

THURSDAY, AUG 11 2016 EVENT INFORMATION AT 12:00 FINALS WORLD RANKING #1: Jamie BEYERLE-GRAY (USA) – retired from shooting TITLE DEFENDER: Snjezana PEJCIC (CRO) WORLD RECORD: 594 points scored by Snjezana PEJCIC (CRO) on 22/04/2016 FINALS WORLD RECORD: 464.7 points scored by Petra ZUBLASING (ITA) on 19/06/2015 OLYMPIC RECORD: ISSF Rule Change - not established yet FINALS OLYMPIC RECORD: ISSF Rule Change - not established yet

50M RIFLE 3 POSITIONS WOMEN

mong the 15 Olympic Shooting in the 10m Air Rifle Women event in Beijing TOP FAVORITE events which will take place at 2008- started in 15 matches, reaching the final the Olympic Shooting Range of Rio stage 12 times and earning 10 total medals, Ade Janeiro (BRA), the 50m Rifle 3 Positions divided into 5 Golds, 3 Silvers and 2 Bronzes. Women event is undoubtedly one of the clear The group of athletes who will try to de- favorites. throne Snjezana Pejcic include Italy’s rising During the 2016 ISSF World Cup Series, star PETRA ZUBLASING (27), Gold medal in fact, Croatia’s SNJEZANA PEJCIC (34) ob- in this event at the 2015 , tained 3 out of 4 Gold medals, climbing to the and ’s BARBARA ENGLEDER (33), highest step of the podium in Rio de Janeiro, currently ranked 5th in the world. Munich (GER) and Baku (AZE), as well as placing 2nd in the opening stage of the sea- son, in Bangkok (THA). Furthermore, at the Olympic test event held in Rio last April, Pejcic set a new World Record with 594 qualification points, strength- ening her position at the top of the World Ranking. During the current Olympic season, Snjezana Pejcic (CRO) the Croatian Rifle shooter -Bronze medalist

THE SUPER 25 50M RIFLE 3 POSITIONS WOMEN

NAME (NOC) WORLD RANK OLYMPIC GAMES WCH -WC-WCF 2013 – 2016 MEDALS BEST RESULTS AUG 1 2016 Participation Starts Finals Wins Total Qualification Final PEJCIC Snjezana (CRO) 1 2 15 12 5 10 594 463,0 ZUBLASING Petra (ITA) 4 1 13 12 4 8 591 464,7 ARSOVIC Andrea (SRB) 49 1 16 3 2 3 587 457,9 ENGLEDER Barbara (GER) 5 3 6 4 1 4 592 461,5 CHANG Jing (CHN) 82 8 4 1 4 589 463,3 CHEN Dongqi (CHN) 7 11 8 1 3 590 456,2 GSCHWANDTNER Selina (GER) 33 6 3 1 2 591 459,4 KOESTEL Beate (GER) 29 1 5 2 1 1 590 456,6 BRUNS Adela (CZE) 20 2 16 8 1 1 589 456,2 ROESKEN Eva (GER) 26 7 2 1 1 587 453,6 SENA Sabrina (ITA) 60 1 10 1 1 1 586 455,7 BEER Jolyn (GER) 2 2 2 1 1 583 455,9 YI Siling (CHN) 75 1 8 6 3 588 455,4 WU Liuxi (CHN) 2 3 2 2 590 456,8 WESTERHEIM Malin (NOR) 12 1 13 4 2 587 456,5 YOO Seo Young (KOR) 44 6 2 1 592 455,0 LI Peijing (CHN) 1 3 2 1 590 454,3 ZHANG Binbin (CHN) 8 4 2 1 590 444,0 BRIZE Laurence (FRA) 35 3 10 4 1 589 454,6 GANKHUYAG Nandinzaya (MGL) 9 13 1 1 589 443,3 ANDUSIC MAKSIMOVIC Ivana (SRB) 23 1 16 2 1 588 451,5 VORONOVA Anzela (EST) 6 1 10 2 1 586 456,7 MA Hong (CHN) 2 1 1 586 456,2 PEER Franziska (AUT) 3 5 2 1 586 454,4 SCHERER Sarah (USA) 22 1 6 2 1 586 447,2 ZHUKOVA Anna (RUS) 19 4 3 1 586 444,8 GAUSWAMI Lajja (IND) 31 15 2 1 584 454,0 ZHAO Huixin (CHN) 10 7 3 1 583 444,4 KLEINMANNS Amelie (GER) 64 6 1 1 582 456,2

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DAY SEVEN

FRIDAY, AUG 12 2016 EVENT INFORMATION AT 11:00 FINALS WORLD RANKING #1: Torben GRIMMEL (DEN) TITLE DEFENDER: Sergei MARTYNOV (BLR) WORLD RECORD: 633.0 points scored by Sergey KAMENSKIY (RUS) on 21/07/2015 FINALS WORLD RECORD: 211.2 points scored by Henri JUNGHAENEL (GER) on 1/11/2013 OLYMPIC RECORD: ISSF Rule Change - not established yet FINALS OLYMPIC RECORD: ISSF Rule Change - not established yet

50M RIFLE PRONE MEN

ith none of the three 2012 Olym- Hill is currently placed 3rd in the World Rank- TOP FAVORITE pic medalists attending Rio 2016, ing and won the Gold medal at the 2014 ISSF the 50m Rifle Prone Men event World Championship in Granada (ESP). Wis about to crown a new Olympic Champion In addition to the German and the Aus- who is probably going to emerge from an elite tralian, Denmark’s TORBEN GRIMMEL (40), group of athletes. winner of 3 of the 4 Rifle Prone Gold medals Current World Record holder, Germany’s up for grabs at this year’s World Cup, will HENRI JUNGHAENEL (28), is undoubtedly surely enter the Olympic Shooting Range in part of this group after competing in 15 final top shape, empowered by his leading position stages out of 18 starts in the last four years in the World Ranking for this event and by the and obtaining 4 Golds, 1 Silver and 3 Bronzes. experience he has gained throughout his four During this year’s Olympic test event in previous Olympic participations. Rio de Janeiro (BRA), Junghaenel preceded another viable candidate for a podium posi- tion: WARREN POTENT (54). In this event, Henri Junghaenel (GER), Torben Grimmel (DEN) indeed, the Australian shooter from Currans

THE SUPER 25 50M RIFLE PRONE MEN

NAME (NOC) WORLD RANK OLYMPIC GAMES WCH -WC-WCF 2013 – 2016 MEDALS BEST RESULTS AUG 1 2016 Participation Starts Finals Wins Total Qualification Final JUNGHAENEL Henri (GER) 2 18 15 4 8 629,2 211,2 GRIMMEL Torben (DEN) 1 4 15 5 3 4 632,0 210,6 MCPHAIL Michael (USA) 8 1 15 8 3 4 631,9 209,1 BRODMEIER Daniel (GER) 9 1 12 6 1 4 628,8 210,5 POTENT Warren (AUS) 3 4 15 8 1 4 628,6 210,0 EMMONS Matthew (USA) 6 3 11 9 1 3 632,0 208,4 ZHAO Shengbo (CHN) 38 12 2 1 2 630,3 209,1 GRIGORYAN Kirill (RUS) 10 4 3 1 2 626,7 209,3 LAN Xing (CHN) 106 1 5 3 1 2 625,6 209,0 SAUVEPLANE Valerian (FRA) 91 2 9 2 1 1 629,4 208,8 HOU Kai (CHN) 123 9 3 1 1 627,8 208,2 D’HALLUIN Michael (FRA) 8 2 1 1 626,9 207,3 SCHMIRL Alexander (AUT) 51 12 1 1 1 626,4 209,5 LIU Gang (CHN) 106 5 2 2 629,6 208,5 DEBEVEC Rajmond (SLO) 106 8 15 3 2 625,1 209,0 BUBNOVICH Vitali (BLR) 35 3 10 3 1 630,7 188,3 DURKOVIC Bojan (CRO) 18 1 12 3 1 629,6 186,5 GRAFF Cyril (FRA) 28 1 9 3 1 629,1 208,9 PARR Kenneth (GBR) 5 8 4 1 628,8 208,0 PLETIKOSIC Stevan (SRB) 4 5 11 4 1 628,7 186,2 JERABEK Tomas (CZE) 53 2 12 2 1 628,2 186,6 NARANG Gagan (IND) 13 3 16 6 1 627,8 185,8 ANDERSSON Sam (SWE) 101 13 1 1 627,7 187,2 MATHIS Thomas (AUT) 21 15 2 1 627,2 207,2 SHCHERBATSEVICH Yury (BLR) 17 2 11 3 1 626,9 188,0 GORSA Petar (CRO) 7 2 7 1 1 626,9 187,5 BRYHN Ole Kristian (NOR) 29 1 13 4 1 626,8 206,3 VLASOV Fedor (RUS) 77 8 3 1 626,5 185,6 MOWRER Nickolaus (USA) 1 1 1 1 1 626,4 186,8 BRANDT Carsten (DEN) 106 7 1 1 626,2 208,6 BUERGE Marcel (SUI) 116 3 8 2 1 625,5 186,4 COX Lionel (BEL) 39 1 17 1 1 624,7 186,4 KIM Hakman (KOR) 53 2 4 2 1 623,5 206,6 PENI Istvan (HUN) 18 8 1 1 621,3 202,7

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FRIDAY, AUG 12 2016 EVENT INFORMATION AT 15:00 FINALS WORLD RANKING #1: Sutiya JIEWCHALOEMMIT (THA) TITLE DEFENDER: Kimberly RHODE (USA) WORLD RECORD: 75 targets scored by Diana BACOSI (ITA) on 20/06/2015 FINALS WORLD RECORD: no Finals World Record will be registered OLYMPIC RECORD: ISSF Rule Change - not established yet FINALS OLYMPIC RECORD: no Finals Olympic Record will be registered

SKEET WOMEN

here are two flags that have literally Among these four excellent shooters, Rhode TOP FAVORITE waved over every Skeet Women po- is whom probably deserves to have the high- dium since 2013: the Italian and the er odds, as she has won more Gold medals TAmerican one, and it is safe to assume that than any other athlete in the Olympic cycle, they will also wave on August 12th, when also having to defend the Skeet Women this event’s Olympic Gold medal will be de- Olympic title she obtained four years ago. livered in Rio de Janeiro (BRA). However, despite the undeniable supe- Both national teams will travel to Brazil riority of the two national teams, it is Thai- with their champions in tow, such as the land’s SUTIYA JIEWCHALOEMMIT (30), who USA’s KIMBERLY RHODE (37), who will team- currently leads the World Ranking, and has up with 2015 ISSF World Champion MORGAN obtained the World Cup Gold medal twice CRAFT (23), while Italy will be represented in Rio de Janeiro (BRA) and in San Marino by DIANA BACOSI (35) and by 2008 Olympic (SMR). In Rio, then, Jiewchaloemmit will be- Gold medalist CHIARA CAINERO (38). come the wild, unexpected variable in the In both teams, a far more experienced duel between the United States and Italy. shooter will join a total debutant, as Rhode and Cainero will respectively be attending their 6th and 4th Olympics, while Craft and Bacosi will Kimberly Rhode (USA) make their first appearances at the Olympics.

THE SUPER 25 SKEET WOMEN

NAME (NOC) WORLD RANK OLYMPIC GAMES WCH -WC-WCF 2013 – 2016 MEDALS BEST RESULTS AUG 1 2016 Participation Starts Finals Wins Total Quali Semi Finals RHODE Kimberly (USA) 5 5 12 6 3 5 74 16 16 BACOSI Diana (ITA) 5 1 15 10 2 6 75 16 15 CAINERO Chiara (ITA) 4 3 14 7 2 6 75 15 16 CRAFT Morgan (USA) 2 11 6 2 5 74 15 16 HILL Amber (GBR) 7 19 6 2 4 74 16 16 JIEWCHALOEMMIT Sutiya (THA) 1 2 17 10 2 4 73 16 15 WENZEL Christine (GER) 14 2 16 5 2 3 73 16 16 SPADA Katiuscia (ITA) 24 14 5 1 3 73 16 15 BARTEKOVA Danka (SVK) 17 2 15 7 1 3 73 15 15 SHAKIROVA Albina (RUS) 15 15 6 1 2 74 15 15 DROZD Brandy N. (USA) 7 3 1 2 73 16 16 ENGLISH Amber (USA) 3 4 2 1 1 72 15 16 ZHANG Donglian (CHN) 3 1 1 1 72 15 13 LIN Piao Piao (CHN) 68 5 1 1 1 71 14 13 SCOCCHETTI Simona (ITA) 10 13 4 3 74 14 14 WEI Meng (CHN) 12 10 4 3 73 16 16 ELEFTHERIOU Andri (CYP) 8 1 16 5 2 74 15 16 PANARINA Olga (RUS) 8 3 2 74 15 13 ALLEN Elena (GBR) 40 2 16 5 2 74 15 13 CONNOR Caitlin (USA) 22 8 5 2 73 15 13 DUNN Haley (USA) 8 2 1 74 13 15 WEI Ning (CHN) 9 3 8 4 1 73 15 15 YU Xiumin (CHN) 26 7 1 1 72 15 13 KIM Minji (KOR) 75 1 9 2 1 71 15 15 LU Min (CHN) 11 5 1 1 70 13 13 JACOB Katharina Monika (USA) 21 1 1 1 69 14 15

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DAY EIGHT

SATURDAY, AUG 13 2016 EVENT INFORMATION AT 12:30 FINALS WORLD RANKING #1: ZHANG Fusheng (CHN) TITLE DEFENDER: Leuris PUPO (CUB) WORLD RECORD: 593 points scored by Christian REITZ (GER) on 31/07/2015 FINALS WORLD RECORD: 35 points scored by Riccardo MAZZETTI (ITA) on 06/07/2014 OLYMPIC RECORD: 581 points scored by Alexei KLIMOV (RUS) on 03/08/2012 FINALS OLYMPIC RECORD: 34 points scored by Leuris PUPO (CUB) on 03/08/2012

25M RAPID FIRE PISTOL MEN

n the 25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men event, where Zhang placed 2nd. TOP FAVORITE two debutant Olympians will try to Another contender for the Olympic title is undermine the golden ambitions of Russia’’s ALEXEI KLIMOV (40), who equaled IGermany’s (29), number the Finals World Record during the test event CHRISTIAN REITZ 2 in the World Ranking and main favorite for in Rio de Janeiro (BRA) and is currently the Olympic title. ranked 6th in the world. France’s JEAN QUIQUAMPOIX (20) and the People’s Republic of China ZHANG FUSHENG (22), indeed, are the most plau- sible rivals of the German athlete, as they obtained two Gold medals each in this event during the current Olympic cycle, placing 2 more times on the podium and both breaking into the Top 3 of the World Ranking. On the other hand, Reitz qualified for the final phase of this event 15 out of 17 times since 2013, achieving 11 total medals and winning 5 Gold medals, including one at the Christian Reitz (GER ) latest ISSF World Cup stage in Baku (AZE),

THE SUPER 25 25M RAPID FIRE PISTOL MEN

NAME (NOC) WORLD RANK OLYMPIC GAMES WCH -WC-WCF 2013 – 2016 MEDALS BEST RESULTS AUG 1 2016 Participation Starts Finals Wins Total Qualification Final REITZ Christian (GER) 2 2 17 15 5 11 593 33 KLIMOV Alexei (RUS) 6 2 12 6 2 4 591 35 QUIQUAMPOIX Jean (FRA) 3 9 5 2 4 589 32 ZHANG Fusheng (CHN) 1 11 7 2 4 584 30 LI Yuehong (CHN) 8 18 8 1 6 588 34 EKIMOV Leonid (RUS) 10 2 11 6 1 4 587 35 GEIS Oliver (GER) 9 14 6 1 3 588 34 SANDERSON Keith (USA) 5 2 15 9 1 3 585 33 KIM Junhong (KOR) 4 10 6 1 2 593 33 HU Haozhe (CHN) 44 8 3 1 2 586 32 MILEV Emil (USA) 36 5 15 3 1 2 585 33 AKIYAMA Teruyoshi (JPN) 12 18 2 1 1 587 33 MAZZETTI Riccardo (ITA) 26 13 1 1 1 581 35 BONDARUK Roman (UKR) 22 2 15 5 2 590 32 STRNAD Martin (CZE) 24 2 13 6 2 589 28 ZHANG Jian (CHN) 7 1 10 6 2 586 32 PUPO Leuris (CUB) 13 4 11 4 1 588 30 CHEN Kehan (CHN) 3 2 1 587 23 SONG Jong Ho (KOR) 31 6 2 1 585 24 LAO Jiajie (CHN) 37 4 1 1 584 30 KANG Minsu (KOR) 11 3 1 1 584 25 ARTAUD Boris (FRA) 15 10 1 1 582 25 HA MINH Thanh (VIE) 16 9 1 1 580 23

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SATURDAY, AUG 13 2016 EVENT INFORMATION AT 15:00 FINALS WORLD RANKING #1: Tammaro CASSANDRO (ITA) TITLE DEFENDER: Vincent HANCOCK (USA) WORLD RECORD: 125 targets scored by Valerio LUCHINI (ITA) on 09/07/2014 FINALS WORLD RECORD: no Finals World Record will be registered OLYMPIC RECORD: ISSF Rule Change - not established yet FINALS OLYMPIC RECORD: no Finals Olympic Record will be registered

SKEET MEN

ow can you dethrone a two-time Denmark’s JESPER HANSEN (35), 10 semi- TOP FAVORITE Olympic Gold medalist? That’s prob- finals out of 18 starts since 2013, or Italy’s ably what VINCENT HANCOCK’s young GABRIELE ROSSETTI (21) who de- Hrivals have asked themselves multiple times feated Hancock at last year’s ISSF World Cup lately, since the USA’s three-times World Final in Nicosia (CYP). Champion is, without a doubt, the man to Furthermore, during this year’s com- beat in the Skeet Men event. petitions two Swedish Skeet shooters, Despite not reaching the top of the po- MARCUS SVENSSON (26) and STEFAN dium during this year’s ISSF World Cup, Han- NILSSON (25), landed in the top positions of cock (27) is still quite confident, thanks to the the World Ranking thanks to the World Cup 6 podiums he climbed out of 9 semifinal par- Gold medals they respectively obtained in ticipations throughout the last 4 years. Rio de Janeiro (BRA) and San Marino (SMR). The Port Charlotte native, who dropped from 1st to 2nd place in the World Ranking, is going to face the same opponents he often meets at the World Cup shooting ranges: Vincent Hancock (USA)

THE SUPER 25 SKEET MEN

NAME (NOC) WORLD RANK OLYMPIC GAMES WCH -WC-WCF 2013 – 2016 MEDALS BEST RESULTS AUG 1 2016 Participation Starts Finals Wins Total Quali Semi Finals HANCOCK Vincent (USA) 2 2 15 9 4 6 125 16 16 ALRASHIDI Abdullah (KUW) 54 5 18 5 2 4 124 16 16 SYCHRA Jan (CZE) 19 4 15 2 2 2 123 15 14 TERRAS Anthony (FRA) 16 3 14 4 1 3 125 16 16 HANSEN Jesper (DEN) 8 1 18 10 1 3 124 16 16 BROVOLD Tore (NOR) 60 2 13 5 1 3 124 16 16 ROSSETTI Gabriele (ITA) 7 6 4 1 3 124 16 16 ARAMBURU Juan Jose (ESP) 9 2 15 4 1 3 123 16 16 BIN FUTTAIS Saif (UAE) 28 20 5 1 2 124 16 15 SVENSSON Marcus (SWE) 5 1 14 3 1 2 124 16 14 NILSSON Stefan (SWE) 6 1 15 3 1 2 123 16 15 JIN Di (CHN) 59 3 15 2 1 2 123 16 15 FILIPPELLI Riccardo (ITA) 31 8 2 1 2 125 16 16 ZEMLIN Alexander (RUS) 33 10 3 1 2 122 15 16 LODDE Luigi (ITA) 24 1 13 5 1 1 124 15 16 TEPLYY Nikolay (RUS) 4 6 1 1 1 123 16 15 MILCHEV Mikola (UKR) 11 3 13 1 1 1 122 15 14 CASSANDRO Tammaro (ITA) 1 8 3 3 125 16 16 MEHELBA Azmy (EGY) 3 1 14 6 3 124 16 15 LUCHINI Valerio (ITA) 41 6 3 2 125 15 16 JENSEN Tom Beier (NOR) 56 16 2 2 124 15 15 KUNTSCHIK Sebastian (AUT) 37 20 2 2 123 16 15 JANSSON Henrik (SWE) 10 3 2 123 15 15 PERRY Dustin David (USA) 58 10 2 1 124 15 15 BUCHHEIM Ralf (GER) 22 1 15 1 1 125 15 15 CHASIKOS Andreas (CYP) 42 13 1 1 123 15 15 FALCO Ennio (ITA) 5 5 1 1 123 15 15 ASTAKHOV Anton (RUS) 25 7 2 1 123 14 13 YECHSHENKO Alexandr (KAZ) 57 11 1 1 123 14 14 KHAN Mairaj Ahmad (IND) 10 11 1 1 122 15 14 GILLIGAN Michael (GBR) 61 13 1 1 121 15 13 MOSCARIELLO Angelo (ITA) 3 1 1 121 14 16 LLEWELLIN Ben W.D. (GBR) 12 3 1 1 121 15 14

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DAY XNINE

SUNDAY, AUG 14 2016 EVENT INFORMATION AT 13:00 FINALS WORLD RANKING #1: Matthew EMMONS (USA) TITLE DEFENDER: Niccolò CAMPRIANI (ITA) WORLD RECORD: 1186 points scored by Nazar LOUGINETS (RUS) on 12/06/2014 FINALS WORLD RECORD: 464.1 points scored by Matthew EMMONS (USA) on 25/05/2016 OLYMPIC RECORD: ISSF Rule Change - not established yet FINALS OLYMPIC RECORD: ISSF Rule Change - not established yet

50M RIFLE 3 POSITIONS MEN

he 50m Rifle 3 Positions Men event medals he obtained at his 3 finals participa- TOP FAVORITE in Rio de Janeiro (BRA) is going to tions throughout the last four years. feature the one undisputed favorite Last but not least, during the Olympic Tof the United States, Matthew Emmons (35), cycle, numerous Chinese athletes have distin- current leader of the World Ranking and Gold guished themselves in this event, but it is safe medalist of two of this year’s World Cup stag- to assume that HUI ZICHENG (27) and ZHU es in Bangkok (THA) and Munich (GER). QINAN (31), currently ranked 3rd and 5th in Emmons, who placed 3rd in this event the world, will represent the People’s Republic at the 2012 Olympic Games, will achieve his of China in the 3 Positions event in Rio. third Olympic participation after represent- ing the USA at 2004 and Beijing 2008. Oddly enough, Emmons won an in both of those previous competitions, a Gold in Athens (GRE) and a Silver in Beijing (CHN), but the two of them arrived through a different event: the 50m Rifle Prone Men. Reigning Olympic Champion NICCOLÒ CAMPRIANI (28) of Italy will also participate Matthew Emmons (USA) in this event in Rio, empowered by the 3 Gold

THE SUPER 25 50M RIFLE 3 POSITIONS MEN

NAME (NOC) WORLD RANK OLYMPIC GAMES WCH -WC-WCF 2013 – 2016 MEDALS BEST RESULTS AUG 1 2016 Participation Starts Finals Wins Total Qualification Finals EMMONS Matthew (USA) 1 3 12 8 3 6 1184 464,1 CAMPRIANI Niccolo (ITA) 18 2 11 9 3 3 1185 460,8 HUI Zicheng (CHN) 3 6 5 3 3 1181 463,7 KAMENSKIY Sergey (RUS) 12 6 6 2 4 1185 459,7 ZHU Qinan (CHN) 5 3 13 8 1 5 1183 458,1 BRODMEIER Daniel (GER) 41 1 11 6 1 4 1179 459,2 LOUGINETS Nazar (RUS) 39 12 9 1 3 1186 462,5 MIROSAVLJEV Nemanja (SRB) 89 5 9 3 1 2 1179 454,5 GORSA Petar (CRO) 2 2 9 2 1 1 1181 457,5 LI Jie (CHN) 1 1 2 1 1 1179 456,5 LINK Andre (GER) 56 6 1 1 1 1177 458,7 YURKOV Yuriy (KAZ) 45 1 13 2 1 1 1175 456,3 JUNGHAENEL Henri (GER) 105 8 1 1 1 1171 452,9 BRYHN Ole Kristian (NOR) 26 1 13 6 3 1182 459,2 CAO Yifei (CHN) 16 1 10 6 3 1181 459,5 KULISH Serhiy (UKR) 4 1 10 5 3 1180 456,8 YANG Haoran (CHN) 49 5 4 2 1181 458,2 SCHMIRL Alexander (AUT) 25 15 4 2 1179 457,9 KANG Hongwei (CHN) 115 8 5 2 1177 455,7 VLASOV Fedor (RUS) 51 1 10 4 2 1176 452,4 SEBIC Milenko (SRB) 6 13 3 1 1183 460,1 BUBNOVICH Vitali (BLR) 36 3 11 1 1 1181 444,5 SAUVEPLANE Valerian (FRA) 15 2 11 4 1 1179 456,2 HAN Jinseop (KOR) 54 2 10 3 1 1179 445,1 RUMPLER Gernot (AUT) 9 8 2 1 1178 448,0 BUERGE Marcel (SUI) 3 6 2 1 1174 441,6 RAJPUT Sanjeev (IND) 7 2 15 3 1 1173 456,9 KIM Hyeonjun (KOR) 11 7 1 1 1172 461,4

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