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XXXI O LYMPIC GAMES PR EVIEW DAY 1 SATURDAY, AUG 06 2016 EVENT INFORMATION AT 10:30 FINALS WORLD RANKING #1: Andrea ARSOVIC (SRB) TITLE DEFENDER: YI Siling (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 10M AIR RIFLE WOMEN ust as in London four years ago, the participations occurred during the 2016 ISSF TOP FAVORITE 10m Air Women event will pres- World Cup Series: in Bangkok (THA), where ent the first Gold medal of the Rio she finished at the top the podium, and in Rio J2016 Olympic Games, 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 China’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 Munich (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 THE SUPER 25 10M AIR RIFLE WOMEN 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 WU Liuxi (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 DU Li (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 22 ISSF NEWS 4/2016 XXXI O LYMPIC GAMES PR EVIEW 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 10M AIR PISTOL MEN 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 Ukraine 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. Spain’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 Baku (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 THE SUPER 25 10M AIR 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 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 PANG Wei (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 4/2016 ISSF NEWS 23 XXXI O LYMPIC GAMES PR EVIEW 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.