Shooting News
At ISSF World Cup Rifle / Pistol, Fort Benning, USA

In the new exciting format for 25m Rapid Fire Pistol final German shooter Christian Reitz, who won the match with an overall score of 29 hits ... The Olympic Bronze medallist of Beijing 2008 won a Gold medal in breathtaking match after outdoing India’s Vijay Kumar in a shoot-off for Gold by 4 to 1 hits.

India’s 25-year old Vijay Kumar secured the Silver medal, as well as the second Olympic Quota Place to be awarded today, with an overall score of 29 hits + 1 hit in the shoot-off, after scoring two great series of five hits during the final.

The Bronze medal went to China’s Ding Feng, the winner of last year’s World Cup final round here in Fort Benning ... Chinese shooter had qualified in the lead with 589 points, but with the new final format qualification points are not counting in the final ... With 24 hits, he shot-off against Kumar, eventually finishing then in third place, just one hit far from the Olympic Qualification.

25m Rapid Fire Pistol Men Final
Gold - Christian Reitz (GER) (584 pts)
Finals series - (3 5 3 4 4 3 3 4) 29 S-off: 4

Silver - Vijay Kumar (IND) (584 pts)
Finals series - (2 3 4 4 5 3 3 5) 29 S-off: 1

Bronze - Ding Feng (CHN)
Finals series - (2 3 3 5 4 3 4) 24